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ILLINOIS PATHWAYSThe employment landscape is shifting. Education needs to be more relevant to the real world, and resources and investments need to be coordinated in a way that makes sense to industry partners. In order to achieve this, we need complimentary community and state-level approaches for this to work. Illinois Pathways was launched in 2012 to respond to the changing education to employment dynamics.

Key Strategies of Illinois Pathways are:

• Support local career pathway systems development that empower students to explore their academic and career interests in STEM fields through new and existing community and state networks. 

• Creation and support of new statewide, public-private partnerships, known as STEM Learning Exchanges, that work to create partnerships between schools, industry, state government, and non-profits which better coordinate investments, resources, and planning in a particular industry cluster.

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Illinois Pathways offers a new and innovative approach to increasing credential attainment by supporting two strategies:

1. Better support local schools, post-secondary institutions, and programs to enable learners to explore their academic and career interests in STEM fields.

2. Improve coordination of public and private investment, including business and industry, in supporting the development of a workforce that can be competitive in tomorrow's economy.

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As of March 2015, Learning Exchanges have formed for:

• Agriculture, Food, & Natural Resources.

• Energy.

• Finance.

• Health Science.

• Information Technology.

• Manufacturing.

• Research & Development.

• Transportation, Distribution, & Logistics.

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Aligned to the National Career Cluster Framework, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Programs of Study enable the State's education institutions to align their curriculum, assessments, and career counseling with the State's growing economic development sectors, thereby ensuring successful transitions to employment and a stronger economy for Illinois. This information is beneficial to:

Students planning their education and training for a STEM career pathway.

Students interested in learning about STEM career options.

Administrators and Educators planning for or updating STEM programs.

Community members interested in finding out what STEM programs include.

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Learn more about each of the Illinois Pathways and STEM Learning Exchanges, and download any informational materials.

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ILLINOIS PATHWAYS EXTRAS

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• Each Career Cluster is a separate widget.

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ILLINOIS PATHWAYS WIDGETS

• Widgets are like YouTube videos. You can copy and paste a small snippet of HTML code into the HTML of any website.

• Widgets have many advantages:• Makes your website look great.

• Easy to install.

• Does the work for you, making maintenance a breeze.

• Customer access is seamless and easy.

• STEM Learning Exchanges can put all of the widgets on their websites.

• State agencies and other partners can put the widgets on their websites.

• All of the widgets are openly available to anyone. See the footer of the website for more information.

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State of Illinois Agency Partners:Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic OpportunityIllinois State Board of EducationIllinois Community College BoardIllinois Board of Higher EducationIllinois Student Assistance CommissionIllinois Department of Employment Security

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