The Career and Technical Education (CTE) program is a program that helps students select the career they would like to pursue in the future, and the steps that need to be taken to reach it. The postgrad survey portion attempts to follow up with current seniors’ intended career pathways and future plans.
There are a diverse range of pathways available to students and the program itself attempts to identify individual students’ plans for the future.
“The goal is that after freshman year, students pick academies based on future careers that they’re seeing. Within those academies, we try to get into the nitty gritty of what job they would like to see in the future,” Rebecca Burnfin said.
The survey’s purpose is to establish and identify seniors’ current ideas for their future.
“The survey is just what is used to see where students go after they graduate high school, whether they’re going straight into the workforce, the military, a two or four year degree, or any kind of vocational program,” Kylee Hipp said.
This year, it seems much more likely that students will be more consistent in following up.
“In terms of the career I want, I’m pretty likely. Just because I’ve been working on it since seventh grade. As for college, at first I was a little hesitant about college just whether it was either going or actually following through the full four years, but I think I’m pretty confident that I’ll stick through it and follow through,” Cesar Morales, Arts and Comms. senior said.
Despite some difficulties, the staff have worked hard to overcome issues that have sprung up.
“There’s a little bit of a hard element for staff, especially for those of us in the CTE world to get connected with students who have graduated. We have some CTE teachers who utilize students that are still here at school that might be friends of those students to get contact information. Our counseling department does the very best to collect emails and phone numbers that they have, but emails change, sometimes they don’t look at old emails, or sometimes there are barriers preventing mass emails from reaching them,” Burnfin said.
The staff and leadership have played major and important roles in ensuring the success of both the program and results of the survey.
“But really, it’s just supporting students and staff when needed. Then during career fairs, using our kids to help support them as well,” Hipp said.
