CONFIRMED SESSIONS
Career Advising & Navigation
We’ve invested heavily in pathways—and still left too many learners to figure them out alone.
Advising is the missing link between pathways and outcomes. Across sessions, explore how leaders are embedding career navigation into coursework, dual enrollment, and postsecondary advising, while strengthening transitions from high school to college and beyond. From frameworks focused on agency and purpose to strategies that reduce summer melt and expand access in rural and low-employer contexts, this strand tackles what it takes to help learners move forward with clarity.
Beyond Compliance: Measuring What Matters in Career Navigation
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Bridging the Gap: A High School–College Partnership Model to Increase Matriculation and Retention
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Building and Scaling the COSI ASAP MODEL ACROSS COLORADO
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Leveraging CTE Centers to Build CE Credential Pathways
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Making the Big Three Work: Why Essential Skills Are the Missing Link for an AI-driven Workplace
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Preparing Young People to Flourish in an AI-Shaped Labor Market
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Scaling Career-Connected Learning: Integrating Career Readiness into Curriculum and Student Employment
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What Young Adults Actually Need to Thrive: A New Framework for Program Design That Boosts Confidence & Readiness
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DATA & EVIDENCE BUILDING
We can’t defend what we can’t measure.
Data is shaping what gets funded, scaled, and sustained. Sessions highlight how leaders are using wage outcome data, statewide tools like COdata, and emerging AI-supported evidence models to guide decisions and prove impact. Go beyond dashboards to explore how data is driving policy, funding models like Pay-for-Performance, and stronger alignment across education and workforce systems.
AI-Augmented Clearinghouse to Facilitate Evidence-Based Decision-Making and Workforce Development: A Conceptual Framework
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Data Driven Workforce & Economic Development Policies
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Fireside Chat: Colorado's Data Vision
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From Data to Action: Building Community-Driven Career Pathways
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From Evidence to Impact: What It Takes to Scale Programs Well
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From Idea to Implementation: Lessons from Launching Colorado’s Pay It Forward Workforce Fund
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From Prototype to Scale: Unlocking Wage Outcomes for Career Development Programs
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Funding What Works: How Colorado Is Building the Infrastructure to Know Whether Workforce Programs Deliver
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It Doesn’t Take a Village, It Takes an Ecosystem: From Skills Data to Learner Mobility
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Making Demographic Data Work for You: Utilizing the State Demography Office Website
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Modeling Workforce Investments: A Simulation Approach to Cross-Sector Decision-Making
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Postsecondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO): Critical Data for L/Earners and Those Invested in Their Success
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The Role of Early Wealth Building in Unlocking Career & Economic Mobility
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Unlock the Potential of Data: A Deep Dive into Colorado Data Connections (COdata)
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When Credentials Cause Harm: Unpacking the Risks of Verifiable Learning and Work Records
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Employer Led InNOVATIONS
If employers aren’t leading pathways design, we’re already behind.
Industries are evolving in real time, and talent systems must keep up. Sessions showcase how employers are co-designing career pathways, expanding apprenticeships (including healthcare and teacher pathways), and shaping policy such as Workforce Pell. From internships and WBL strategies to sector-based collaborations in energy, tech, and healthcare, this strand highlights what it takes to build responsive, employer-driven talent pipelines.
Building Bridges to Opportunity: An Overview of Workforce Services and Programming
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Building Talent Pipelines: Employer-Driven Internship & Work-Based Learning Strategies
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Calling all Space Cadets: Incorporating Space Content into all Disciplines
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Colorado’s Energy Goals: what it means for your students
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Cultivating the Next Generation of Dental Professionals
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From Awareness to Access: Building Career-Connected Learning Pathways in Emerging Technology
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From Coursework to Workforce: Reimagining Teacher Preparation Through Career-Connected Learning
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From Passage to Implementation: What You Need to Know About Workforce Pell
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From Quantum to Kilowatts: A Cross-Sector Case Study on Colorado’s Teacher Externship Model
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From Training to Mobility: How Durable Skills + Coaching Can Improve Workforce Outcomes
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Grow Your Own: Navigating the Teacher Degree Apprenticeship (TDA) Journey
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NASA STEM and Workforce Development: A Shift in Perspective
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Outreach to Employment, By Design: How Commerce City and the Community College of Aurora Aligned Public Dollars Behind One Workforce System
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The Apprenticeship Effect: Future-Ready Pathways
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Trailblazing a new nursing pathway; Apprenticeship degrees to fuel Colorado’s healthcare workforce
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What It Takes to Scale: Turning Cross-Sector Partnerships into Workforce Pathways
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LEARNER & EARNER VOICE
Systems work better when learners help design them.
Too many pathways miss the mark because they ignore real experience. Sessions center learner voice, rural access challenges, and models like Virtual Reality-based career exploration and apprenticeship pathways that connect learning to opportunity. Explore how programs are being redesigned to prioritize agency, relevance, and mobility, including emerging approaches that address financial barriers and long-term economic success.
Breaking Barriers: Peak Education's Integrated Approach to College Access in the Pikes Peak Region
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From Research to Reform: Using the DEEP Framework Data to Innovate Concurrent Enrollment Policy & Practice
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HSI Designations as a Throughline: Centering Marginalized Populations Through
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Listening to Learners
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They stumbled. They spoke. We conquered.
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Virtual Training-Real Opportunity
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World Builders: Constructing a Healthier Future
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