Strategies for a Successful Career Pathways Program  (Summarized from Tech Prep The Next Generation  by Dan Hull and Julie Grevelle, 1998)     1. Develop a school wide philosophy about preparing students for the world of work.   2. Identify the pathways that best suit your business community and region.   3. Start small-with one or two pathways -so that issues of curriculum design can be worked out and teachers can be brought along slowly.   4. Identify a teacher with leadership qualities to spearhead implementation of the career pathways process. Ensure that he or she has the confidence of other teachers.   5. Survey businesses extensively to determine the skills and competencies they need. Follow up in person to validate curricula and develop channels of communication for a school/business partnership.   6. Give teachers the time and guidance (via professional development) they need to incorporate workplace skills into their curricula.   7. Design passport certificates that appropriately document courses completed and competencies attained. Ensure that these certificates make sense to businesses and that the assessments used validate the level of competence.   8. Select an interest/aptitude inventory that can be used to help students select career pathways. Students and their families, not the school, should make choices.   9. Provide flexibility in the program and opportunities for students to exercise different pathway options if they become disenchanted with their firs choices.   10. Require each student to develop a resume and provide training on how to do this and to interview for a job.   11. Design a process for developing student portfolios. Include teachers, counselors, and businesses in this process.   12. Recognize students at the completion of their career pathways with a ceremony that involves family.   13. Give all students a chance to experience the workplaces of their career paths.   14. Build awareness and support between the superintendent and board of trustees before introducing changes.   15. Use every available opportunity, in school and out, to promote the spirit and philosophy of the career pathways system.