Pathways to College and Career: Advancing Colorado’s Homegrown Talent Coalition to Lead and Sustain Complex Change
Pathways to College and Career: Advancing Colorado’s Homegrown Talent Coalition to Lead and Sustain Complex Change outlines a statewide collaboration model for expanding access to college and career pathways across Colorado.
Developed and published by Colorado Education Initiative and Colorado Succeeds with support and contributions from Empower Schools and the coalition of Colorado policy, advocacy, and implementation organizations, the report focuses on how state leaders, school districts, postsecondary partners, workforce organizations, and advocates can move from policy adoption to coherent implementation.
The report centers on a shared vision that Colorado students should have access to the “Big Three”: in-demand industry credentials, college credit, and high-quality work-based learning. It also describes the Homegrown Talent Coalition as a model for aligning data, pathways, policy, and implementation support so school districts can sustain this work over time.
In this resource:
How Colorado can move from career-connected learning policy to local implementation
Why in-demand credentials, college credit, and work-based learning matter for high school students
How the Homegrown Talent Coalition can support statewide collaboration and change management
What data, pathways, and policy conditions are needed to sustain college and career pathways
What Colorado leaders can do to make career-connected learning available to more students
Best for: state education leaders, policymakers, district leaders, workforce partners, postsecondary leaders, funders, advocates, and organizations working on Early College and Career Pathways.
This report was published by Colorado Education Initiative and Colorado Succeeds with support from Empower Schools as part of the Homegrown Talent Coalition.
