2024/25 Defined Symposium: Building Tomorrow's Skills Today: Career-Connected Learning

Now more than ever, providing students with career-connected learning experiences helps students develop critical future-ready skills, leveling the playing field and ensuring that every child has the opportunity to chart a course toward an inspiring future.

We are excited to invite you to our 2024/25 Defined Symposium: Building Tomorrow's Skills Today: Career-Connected Learning. This Symposium is a 3-part series where education leaders and administrators from across the country will dive into how schools and districts are providing students with meaningful career-connected learning opportunities that build critical future-ready skills and expand career pathways.

Registering for the Symposium will automatically register you for all 3 sessions. Certificates of attendance will be awarded after each session. For additional details, check out the agenda below.

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Symposium Agenda

Session #1: October 1st, 2024 - 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET

Overview: PBL and STEM expert and author Jorge Valenzuela and administrators from Santa Rosa County School District (FL) and Montgomery Public Schools (AL) will discuss how to engage students in project-based career-connected learning that prepares all students for future success. We’ll discuss how to provide students with learning opportunities that help them build 21st-century and future-ready skills and provide examples of how districts are achieving this through career-connected PBL and STEM. This session will also highlight the role and impact of Defined Learning in these districts' career-connected learning journies.