"The Conversation"

Collaborative Work with other Organizations
in Support of Career Academies

Since 2000 a group of organizations with a common interest in Career Academies has been meeting two or three times a year to discuss how they can cooperate and collaborate. CASN has agreed to make one part of its website a repository of information about this group of organizations and its common efforts. Among the information here is a fact sheet on most of the organizations involved, a history of the meetings and topics dealt with, and several documents developed through these efforts, among them a definition of what constitutes a Career Academy and a set of standards for Career Academies.

Specifically, this section of the CASN website includes:

• A Common Definition of Career Academies
• National Career Academy Standards of Practice
• National Career Academy Standards of Practice - A Power Point Presentation
• Reforming High Schools: The Role for Career Academies (Betsy Brand, American Youth Policy Forum, 2004)
• Fact Sheets on the Involved Organizations

Career Academy Conversation Meeting Reports

• 11/11/06 - San Francisco, CA