Career Connected Learning K-12
Explore, Experience, Think about career pathways
Everyone benefits when New Brunswick youth have the skills, strategies, supports and resilience necessary to successfully pursue their preferred futures. To meet the needs of all learners to manage learning, work, (paid and unpaid), leisure, and transitions, the New Brunswick Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (EECD) has created the Career Education Framework in New Brunswick– Career Pathway Planning for a Hopeful Future.
This research-based framework:
- Articulates the activities and experiences expected of Early Childhood to Grade 12 students attending Anglophone schools in New Brunswick.
- Outlines the career development competencies and attitudes associated with better transitions and psychological well-being in young adulthood.
- Ensures that New Brunswick’s provincial curriculum provides each learner with equitable and inclusive career education and pathway planning.
- Supports each learner to participate in and actively engage in their career pathway and transition planning through the Hopeful Transitions model and tool.
New Brunswick Career Education Framework
- New Brunswick Career Education Framework - English
- New Brunswick Career Education Framework - Français
- NB Career Education Framework Poster
- NB Career Education Framework Presentation
- Career Education Framework Rationale
- 16 Steps of a Successful Career Education Framework
- Career Education Strategy Document
- Career Connected Learning Best Practices Document
Supplementary Professional Resources
- Portrait of a Learner in New Brunswick's Anglophone School System
- New Brunswick Global Competencies
- CMEC Reference Framework for Successful Transitions
- Challenging Social Inequality Through Career Guidance - Insights from International Data and Practice
- UDL for Career Education Guidelines
Career Connected Learning K-12 Supporting Information
Hopeful Transitions Schools can learn about implementing Hopeful Transitions by visiting this site.
- Hopeful Transitions Overview Video
- What is Hopeful Transitions? Poster
- Hopeful Transitions helps learners prepare for life after high school
Career Life Plan - Details and resources supporting the Anglophone Sector’s graduation requirement for an ongoing personalized Career Life Plan.
Hopeful Transitions at Your School Poster 1 / Poster 2
PL Hub Career Connected Learning – Professional resources for NB educators
- Career Connected Learning Modules for Educators – 5 virtual modules supporting: myBlueprint, Labour Market Information, Experiential Learning, Financial Wellness, Social Emotional Learning and Global Competencies
N.B. Curriculum Anglophone Sector – content, learning areas, program blocks and resources for Early Learning to Grade 12
- Career Connected Learning – landing page
- High School Block: Career Connected Learning Subclusters – course options
- High School Companion Document – planning, courses, credits, schedules
- Career Life Plan Companion Document – ideas and resources for implementation
- Career Pathway Design 10 – an experiential career pathway planning course
- Career Pathway Design 10 Companion Document – ideas and resources
- EECD Resource Bundles - Tagged as Career Connected Learning (NBED Login required)
Career Connected Learning Field of Practice – resources specific to counsellors as career influencers, located in the New Brunswick School Counsellor Framework
New Brunswick Virtual Learning Centre (NBVLC) - online high school courses
- Career Connected Experiences
- NB Virtual Learning Login page
- Career Life Plan Micro-credit – coming soon!
Centres of Excellence – career readiness through virtual and experiential learning
What is Career Connected Learning?
A career is the life you want to lead – not just a job, occupation or profession. It involves preparing for possible and preferred futures.
Career Connected Learning (CCL) engages K-12 learners across all curricular areas in Exploring, Experiencing and Think about, potential career pathways. These 3 Big Ideas will inform each learner’s Career Life Plan required for all New Brunswick graduates.
Career Connected Learning incorporates:
- Social Emotional Learning
- Labour Market Information
- Experiential Learning
- Financial Wellness
- Global Competencies Learning
Who is Responsible?
Everyone in the school system has a role, including educators, families, and learners.
Why is Career Connected Learning Important?
- Bolsters well-being/mental health
- Improves academic achievement
- Increases student engagement and motivation
- Develops competencies to successfully manage learning, work and transitions
- Prepares learners for the workplaces of the future (skills economy)
- Boosts social mobility
- Improves employee engagement and productivity
- Reduces unemployment
- Strengthens economic growth
Career Connected Learning K-12 Videos
