This document discusses the future of work and education in the context of emerging technologies. It notes that while STEM jobs currently make up 5.5% of the US workforce, technology impacts all jobs and disciplines. It advocates for career pathways as a systematic approach to education, training, and employment that includes multiple entry points and aligns programs across various systems. Implementing career pathways requires elements like partnerships, standards alignment, credit transfer agreements, and innovative teaching strategies to support students in obtaining in-demand skills and credentials.

1. The Future is Here: Connecting
College and Career Readiness to
Transform Instructional and
Student Outcomes
AZ CTE, Prescott, AZ
February 7, 2013
JIM BRAZELL
jimbrazell@ventureramp.com

2. General Bernard
Schriever
Feb. 19, 1957
Inaugural Air Force Office of
Scientific Research
Astronautics Symposium in
San Diego.
Commander of Western
Development Division
Headquarters
Charles Wilson

5. The Bellwether Sounds - The
Role of CTE in S.T.E.M.
Education, by Jim
Brazell, Consulting Analyst, The
Schriever Institute, August
2008, Volume 1, Issue 2
When our predecessors stood at
the edge of the world and gazed at
Sputnik orbiting, they did not
respond with a narrow focus on
science and mathematics. The
vanguard of military strategy-
education, strategic weapons and
technology forecasting-responded
by advocating the expansion of
military training, education, and
learning to include unified classical
and technical education.

6. http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Earth-View-From-The-Moon.jpg
July 20, 1969

7. May 25, 2008
Phoenix Mars Probe

8. ROBOTS

9. Forces of Change
Transformation of Technology
Globalization of Economy
Changing Demography

10. The Commission reported:
1. There was a widespread interest in the subject of industrial education.
2. The lack of skilled workmen was not chiefly a want of manual dexterity
but a want of what what may be called industrial intelligence.
3. There was a growing feeling of inadequacy of the existing public school
system to fully meet the needs of modern industrial and social conditions.
The schools were too exclusively literary in their spirit, scope, and
methods.
4. To the question of who should bear the expense of technical
education, the common answer was the state.

11. On June 7, 1905, Massachusetts Governor William Douglas appointed a
Commission on Industrial and Technical Education that later became known as the
Douglas Commission. The Commission reported:
1. There was a widespread interest in the subject of industrial education.
2. The lack of skilled workmen was not chiefly a want of manual dexterity but a
want of what what may be called industrial intelligence.
3. There was a growing feeling of inadequacy of the existing public school system
to fully meet the needs of modern industrial and social conditions. The schools
were too exclusively literary in their spirit, scope, and methods.
4. To the question of who should bear the expense of technical
education, the common answer was the state.
(Barlow, 2001 Years of Education 1776-1976, Feb. 1976)
Vocational Education, 1826-1917

12. Agrarian Age
Input to production
– human labor
Industrial Age
Input to production –
machine labor
American Industrial Revolution
1812-1973
1812

13. Morrill Act, July 2, 1862
Practical
Arts
Liberal
Arts
S&T
Motivates
New
Ed
―...promote the liberal and practical education of the
industrial classes.‖ (Barlow, 2001 Years of Education
1776-1976, Feb. 1976)

14. Hail the skillful
cunning hand!
Hail to the
cultural mind!
Contending for
the world’s
command,
Here let them
be combined.
(Barlow, 2001 Years of
Education 1776-1976, Feb.
1976)
St. Louis Manual Training
School, 1880
Steam-driven threshing machine near Hallock, Minnesota. Photo from
1882, scanned from H. Arnold Barton, A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes
and Swedish Americans, 1840—1940, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis
Upsaliensis, 1994. Held by Nordiska Museet, Stockholm. Public domain
by reason of age in Wikipedia.

15. Post
Industrial
(1973)
2013 New
Age (2013)
A new age of
living, learning
working, & playing
Paradigm Shift

16. 4.7 MILLION More
Postsecondary Certificates
22 MILLION More
Associate’s, Bachelor’s
& Advanced Degrees
Continued UNDERSUPPLY Will Lead To
3 MILLION Degree Shortfall16

17. 17

18. 18

19. Common Core State Standards & Career and Technical Education: Bridging the Divide
between College and Career Readiness was prepared for Achieve by Hans Meeder and
Thom Suddreth of the Meeder Consulting Group, with the Association for Career and
Technical Education and the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical
Education Consortium.
―...all too
often, the
focus on
“college
readiness”
and “career
readiness”
remains in
two distinct
silos...”

20. Understanding the
transformation of technology
& jobs
The need to implement career
pathways as a system
Theory to support CTE as a
platform for instructional
transformation

21. What do you
think of
when I say?

22. Robot

23. John Hart / AP

24. http://ae45ipb.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/masa-depan-pertanian-ada-di-tangan-robotikabisakah/

25. http://ae45ipb.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/masa-depan-pertanian-ada-di-tangan-robotikabisakah/

27. 27

30. Lost in Space
Control Robot

31. The Day the Earth Stood Still - Gort

32. We need to think
beyond these.
v
v

33. Robots are now
fundamental to how
we live, work, and play
in the 21st century.

34. 34

35. 35
http://img9.joyreactor.com/pics/post/gif-cats-iRobot-vacuum-cleaner-278519.gif

36. 3636
http://www.gadgetspage.com/wp-content/uploads/inside-redbox.jpg

37. Computer
Communication and
Control of Information
Cyber
Physical
Computing
Communication and
Control of Physical
Processes
Emerging
Technology

38. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/

40. http://geeklit.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html

41. http://geeklit.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html

42. http://geeklit.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html

44. Social Cognitive
ArtificialNatural
5th World
Cyber Physical - One Reality

46. Mixed Reality

47. Imagine the
games we can
play…

48. Star Wars TIE FIGHTER for I-Phone

52. Home Technology

53. What are the
implications for work?
http://www.calcars.org/photos.html
University researchers have illustrated that they can penetrate on board
communications systems in cars such as OnStar, apply brakes and lock
doors.

54. A Pacemaker the Size
of a Tic Tac -
Medtronic is using
microelectronics to
make a pacemaker so
small it can be
injected. Technology
Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/32436/?nlid=4
177

56. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927943.800-smart-contact-lenses-for-health-and-headup-displays.html
Babak Parviz at the
University of
Washington in
Seattle created a
prototype contact
lens containing a
single red LED.
Using the same
technology, he has
now created a lens
capable of
monitoring glucose
levels in people with
diabetes.

57. What are the
implications for work?

58. What are the
implications for work?
http://www.calcars.org/photos.html
The increasing footprint of automation in cars, trains, planes, and heavy
equipment has necessitated a shift from mechanic to ―technician.‖

59. 59
http://media.englishrussia.com/newpictures/nanotrain002-53.jpg

60. 6060
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139635/Queen-skies-The-girl-Britains-youngest-female-airline-pilots-aged-just-25.html

61. Multi-Craft/Multi-Skill
Knowledge
Jobs
Skill
Jobs
Jobs
Today

62. Multi-Craft/Multi-Skill
White
Collar
Jobs
Blue
Collar
Jobs
Jobs
Today

63. ―In most industries you
have
electricians, mechanics
and IT, in wind, you are
expected to do
everything.‖
-- Bryan Gregory, Jr.
11.1.2006, TSTC West TX, Sweetwater

64. Butler Community College
April 7 to 11, 2008
D-J Engineering
Engineering Design
$50K - $180K
Machinists & Sheet Metal
$22K - $42K
--Razaul A. Chowdhury, President

65. Specialized
Knowledge &
Skills
Systems
Knowledge &
Skills
Emerging Jobs

66. Butler Community College
April 7 to 11, 2008

67. 4.16.2007, TSTC Waco
―….we had to
upgrade our basic
mechanic skills to
include
programmable
logic controllers
and electrical
systems.‖--Dr. Ron
Lentsch, Allergan

68. ―In 2006, demand was off the charts.
Every graduate had a job 6 months
before graduation. Chemical
Technology Graduates typically start at
$35K and it is not uncommon for them
to make $60K-to-$70K per year.‖ –Robert
Hernandez, TSTC

69. National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research

70. Similar to space in 1957, cyberspace is
now the the platform and engine of
education, workforce, economic
development, and national security.
Cyberspace is a domain of civil
society, commerce, and governance
while simultaneously representing an
emerging domain of
warfare, terrorism, and crime.
The integration of
computers, networks, software, and
machines (cyber physical systems) has
given birth to a new age. What would
you call this age? What is post-post
industrial?

71. Information Age
Robot
Age
Emerging
Economy

72. Understanding the
transformation of technology
& jobs
The need to implement career
pathways as a system
Theory to support CTE as a
platform for instructional
transformation

73. What do you
think of
when I say?

74. STEM JOBS

75. STEM JOBS
Audience Survey
What percentage of jobs
in the U.S. in 2010 are
classified as STEM jobs
by the U.S. Department
of Commerce?

76. STEM JOBS
60% or
more

77. STEM JOBS
25%-
49%

78. STEM JOBS
6%-
24%

79. STEM JOBS
Less
than 6%

80. 5.5% STEM JOBS
5.5% of U.S. Workforce,
7.6MM STEM Jobs in
2010
David Langdon, George McKittrick, David Beede, Beethika Khan, and Mark Doms, ―STEM: Good Jobs Now
and for the Future.‖ US Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration last accessed
online October 28, 2012 http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/reports/documents/stemfinalyjuly14_1.pdf

81. ½ of STEM Jobs are
Network and
Information Tech
David Langdon, George McKittrick, David Beede, Beethika Khan, and Mark Doms, ―STEM: Good Jobs Now
and for the Future.‖ US Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration last accessed
online October 28, 2012 http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/reports/documents/stemfinalyjuly14_1.pdf
5.5% STEM JOBS

82. Technology impacts all jobs and academic
disciplines—all aspects of life.
5.5% STEM JOBS
U.S. Department of
Commerce, Economics and Statistics
Administration, STEM Jobs Now and for
the Future, 7.6MM STEM Jobs in
2010, 5.5% of U.S. Workforce

83. CTE - Five Ways That Pay, Center for Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University, Sep
2012, Last accessed online October 28, 2012 at
http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/CTE.FiveWays.FullReport.pdf
While STEM
accounts for
7.6MM
jobs, there are
29 million
middle skills
jobs
62% of middle
skills job pay
$35K plus
2 out of 5
middle skill
jobs pay $50k
plus

84. US Department of Labor and US Bureau of the Census in National Skills Coalition

88. Career Pathways is a
systematic approach to
education, training, and
employment.

89. Multiple Entry Points

90. www.careerclusters.org

91. Wisconsin RISE
Adult Career
Pathways Model:
A Schematic
RISE Pathways components
RISE Adult Basic Ed Bridge
Other career path or bridge stages
Focal RISE employment skill levels
Other employment skill levels
Direct paths between training
or skill levels
Training paths to jobs/skill levels
and vice-versa
KEY
Entry-level
Skilled
Jobs
Entry-level
Technician
Jobs
Skilled
Technician
Jobs
Technical
Professional &
Managerial
Jobs
Semi-skilled
Jobs
Unskilled
Jobs
Workplace Basics
Vocational
ESL/ABE
Short-term
Occup / Industry
Certificate
4 Year
Baccalaureate
1-year
or
2-year
Technical
Diploma
Applied
Associate
Degree
Contextual
Secondary-level
ABE / ESL Bridge
Advanced
Postgraduate
Education
Intensive Work
Readiness and
Support
Education Workplace
www.cows.org
Center on Wisconsin Strategy
AdultBasicEdPostsecondary

92. Career Pathways System
CTE Programs
Workforce
Development
Economic
Development
Personal &
Regional
Economic
Sustainability
& Growth
Programs of
Study
Employer-Ed
Partnerships
Financial Aid
Regional
Employer Need
Employer-Ed
Grants
Paid Internships
Marketing & PR
Funding Early
Adopter
Programs
Employer-Ed
Grants
An alignment of programs and services across the workforce, education, human service, and economic development
systems to support these unemployed adults/OY and equip them with in-demand skills and credentials.

93. • Is aligned with skill needs of regional industries
• Includes the full range of secondary, adult
education, & postsecondary education options
• Includes curriculum & instructional strategies that
contextualize learning
• As appropriate, integrates education and training
that combines occupational skills training w/adult
education services, gives credit for prior
learning, and adopts other strategies that accelerate
advancement.
The term “career pathways” refers to a clear
sequence of education coursework and/or
training credentials that:

94. http://www.careertech.org/career-clusters/resources/plans.html.
Copyright 2007, States’ Career Clusters Initiative. All rights reserved

95. 1. Legislation and Policies
2. Partnerships among
Education, Business, & Other
Community Stakeholders
3. Leadership and Shared Planning
4. Rigorous Academic and Technical
Standards Aligned with Curriculum and
Assessments
5. Aligned Secondary & Postsecondary
Education Elements
6. Credit Transfer Agreements
7. Accountability and Evaluation Criteria
8. Guidance, Counseling and Advisement
9. Professional Development
10. Innovative Learning and Teaching
Strategies

96. Career Pathways: Six Elements
Career pathways are a
system of support
making it easier for
adults and youth to
complete their
postsecondary training
and education and obtain
employment within an
occupational area and to
advance to higher levels
of future education and
employment in that area.

97. Implementing Career

98. © 2009

99. Understanding the
transformation of technology
& jobs
The need to implement career
pathways as a system
Theory to support CTE as a
platform for instructional
transformation

100. Applied
Problem
Solving
World
Knowledge
The key literacy of the 21st century is
transdiscipline.

101. Transdiscipline
Transdiscipline is the organization of
people across academic and
institutional silos to innovate.
Innovation is the creation of new
knowledge, tools, processes, and
systems.

102. ―The first person to
walk on Mars will be
from the USA.‖
CTE/STEM Practice i
culturally bound.

103. TIER
Space Teams
Andrew Schuetze
San Antonio,TX
High School

104. Alamo Heights
Rocketry
Picture is Fredericksburg ISD, Texas

105. ITSA, San Antonio, TX
http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Students-hoping-to-ridethe-cybersecurity-wave-1043235.php#ixzz1IBe4Gqls

107. Health
Arts
CTE
Academics
Leadership
Character
Citizenship
How do we cultivate
innovation and innovators?

108. Health
Arts
CTE
Academics
Leadership
Character
Citizenship
Classical Contemporary
Education

109. The key to Project-based Learning is learner
engagement in the public sphere. The learning theory
flows from Piaget’s constructivism (V word) and is
extended by Papert’s Constructionism (N word):
"Constructionism-the N word as opposed to the V
word- shares contructivism's view of learning as
"building knowledge structures "through progressive
internalization of actions... It then adds the idea that
this happens especially felicitously in a context where
the learner is consciously engaged in constructing a
public entity, whether it's a sand castle on the beach or
a theory of the universe ( Papert, 1991, p.1 in
Ackermann, n.d.)

110. http://www.olin.edu/

111. http://www.olin.edu/

112. http://www.olin.edu/

113. http://www.olin.edu/

114. Denton ISD, Texas
Programs of study connecting pathways to both 2 year and 4
year post secondary degrees.

125. TE(a)MS Model Schools
Classical Contemporary Education
• High degree of faculty interaction across disciplines
and grades (systems)
• Integrating CTE, Arts and Academics (systems)
• Learning laboratories and worldly experience with
industry-standard tools, processes and problems
(systems)
• Emerging P-20 systems (P-20) --
Sequenced, integrated and transferable courses HS to
CTC to University (systems)
• Transdisciplinary culture (systems) -- Context and
frame for learning is real world, purpose driven and
action oriented.

126. Understanding the
transformation of technology
& jobs
The need to implement career
pathways as a system
Theory to support CTE as a
platform for instructional
transformation

127. Information Age
Robot
Age
Emerging
Economy

128. SURVIVAL
OF
SPECIES
GOVERNANCE
SECURITY &
SAFETY
QUALITY
OF CIVIL
LIFE
WEALTH
JOBS
MARKETS
How do we
cultivate
innovation and
innovators?

129. Health
Arts
CTE
Academics
Leadership
Character
Citizenship
How do we cultivate
innovation and innovators?

130. Health
Arts
CTE
Academics
YOU
Classical Contemporary
Education

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132. The Future is Here
Linking CTE, STEM and
College & Career Readiness
AZ CTE, Prescott, AZ
February 7, 2013
JIM BRAZELL
jimbrazell@ventureramp.com