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Superintendent outlines plan to integrate RIASEC career framework across Quakertown schools
Summary
Quakertown Community School District’s superintendent described a dialogic, K–12 integration of the RIASEC career-interest framework that the district has used for about 2½ years, aims to build a common career language in Bucks County, and hopes to replicate the approach statewide. The framework is presented as a conversational tool, not a separate curriculum.
The superintendent of Quakertown Community School District described the district’s effort to integrate the RIASEC career-interest framework across kindergarten through 12th grade, saying the goal is to help students identify strengths and connect those strengths to career pathways. "RIASEC stands for realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional," the superintendent said, and she credited psychologist John Holland with developing the framework.
The superintendent said the district has taken a "dialogic approach," embedding RIASEC conversations into…
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