Elk Island Public Schools has a variety of programs to help students explore potential careers. Students have the opportunity to explore numerous career pathways and possibilities in Grades 7-12 which develops their knowledge, skills, attitudes and values as they work towards entering post-secondary or the workforce. 

Career Pathways Team:
Off-Campus Education Coordinators (Work Experience, RAP, Green Certificate, Dual Credit)
Kristin Oleksyn
Fred Rempel

Career Pathways
Barclay Spady

Monthly News

Please see the current issue of the June 2022 CP News

Each month Career Pathways distributes relevant planning material, presentation sessions, occupational spotlights, and other helpful information meant to support students and families. It is our hope students in Junior High begin to understand opportunities available to them and explore and reflect on a variety of experiences to help them plan their next steps. High School students continue to set goals and further develop the skills, knowledge and attitudes that increase their readiness to successfully transition beyond high school.

Past newsletters: 
May 2022 CP News
April 2022 CP News
March 2022 CP News
February 2022 CP News
January 2022 CP News
December 2021 CP News
November 2021 CP News

Strategic Plan

The purpose of the Career Pathways Strategic Plan is to outline goals, outcomes and strategies that will enable EIPS’ students to develop awareness of self and discover possibilities for life beyond high school through competency-focused experiences. Starting in kindergarten and extending through high school, students will have the opportunity to learn about themselves, explore multiple career possibilities, as well as set goals and make plans. Opportunities to build and demonstrate competencies essential for work and life will be provided through school programming and off-site activities that are supported by parent and community partnerships.

Career Pathways Strategic Plan 2022

Connection to Four-Year Education Plan
EIPS Priority 1: Promote Growth and Success for All Students
EIPS GOAL 2: Success for Every Student
Outcome 4: More students are supported and prepared for life beyond high school.

Mission: The Career Pathways focus will build confident, well-rounded citizens through creating a Division-wide, centrally developed Strategic Plan that is designed to help students explore and achieve their personal goals to become competent, successful, and contributing members of society.

Vision: EIPS students complete high school and are connected to career pathways that support a successful transition to post-secondary studies or the world of work. As a result, students will join the workforce better prepared, enjoy fulfilling jobs and a higher quality of life.

Goals and Deliverables

Over the next two years, Career Pathways will support teachers, students, parents and partners by:

• working to centralize targeted initiatives that are efficient for schools. Also providing equitable opportunity to programming for students.
• providing professional development and resources that empower and support teachers to incorporate a variety of approaches into everyday instruction; helping them to see the natural fit of career pathways in their classrooms by highlighting career and employability skills that can be addressed within the curriculum. Often this is a shift in the delivery of a concept.
• forming and sustaining collaborative initiatives that help teachers, parents and community partners engage students. This will be done through a central database of community partners that will decrease the amount of time teachers need to spend searching for relevant and enriching guest speakers, field trips, mentorships, scholarships etc.
• increasing opportunities for all students to explore multiple pathways, examine their interests, set goals and develop a plan.
• expanding hands-on learning opportunities for students, including bootcamps and Off-Campus learning, Dual Credit, credentialling and other resources for teachers to support the integration of career focused instruction, post-secondary-based and work-based experiences into programming.
• collecting and celebrating stories of the innovative practices happening in schools and sharing them with teachers to create a collaborative community and network.

Goal 1: Communication
Create common language and understanding of the Career Pathways plan for staff, students, parents and the community.

Goal 2: Awareness Phase
Students in kindergarten through Grade 4 build awareness of various careers though curriculum related teaching and learning activities, career days, field trips, guest speakers etc. Teachers explore the fit of career pathways in the curriculum.

Goal 3: Understanding Phase
Through the implementation of Career and Technology Foundations (CTF) programming students in grades 5-9 will be provided the opportunity to explore passions within various occupational clusters, learn to identify interests and begin to understand the possibilities available to them.

Goal 4: Readiness Phase
Through the implementation of CTS programs and other on-site and off-site activities, senior high students will develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they can apply in their daily lives when preparing for entry into the workplace or further learning opportunities.