Briefs

This Info Brief introduces families, including families of youth with disabilities, to a new way of looking at career development for youth. This brief discusses the three phases of career development, highlights Individualized Learning Plans as a tool for facilitating the career development process, and offers strategies on how families can be involved.

This Information Brief is designed to assist educators in working with parents and family members to facilitate students’ career development through the use of individualized college and career planning
tools. This brief discusses families’ perceptions of whether and how they were engaged in schools’ implementation of Individualized Learning Plans and describes suggestions from families of youth with and without disabilities about actions schools can take to improve family engagement in the ILP process.

To generate the competitive workforce needed to improve and maintain strong economies, state
elected and appointed officials have embraced college and career readiness as a major outcome of secondary education. Recently, states have begun partnering with post-secondary institutions to develop common definitions of what college ready means and are working across state lines to strengthen the content of curricula for core courses.