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Jason Klein of Northern Illinois University outlines Illinois 'essential skills' and offers parent strategies
Summary
Jason Klein, senior director of learning partnerships at Northern Illinois University, presented a Round Lake CUSD 116 family-engagement video explaining Illinois’ Cross-Sector Essential Employability Competencies, the seven career pathways created under state law, and concrete, age-specific steps parents can take to help children develop these skills.
Jason Klein, senior director of learning partnerships at Northern Illinois University, presented a family-engagement video for Round Lake CUSD 116 on Illinois’ Cross-Sector Essential Employability Competencies—commonly called the “essential skills”—and explained how families can help children develop them.
Klein said the competencies trace to the Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Act, signed into law in Illinois in 2016, and that the state organized seven college-and-career pathways around which technical competencies were developed. “These are the competencies for the finance and business services college and career pathway,” he said while listing the pathways, and pointed viewers to the Illinois State Board of Education for the complete competency lists.
Why it matters: the essential skills—teamwork, communication, planning and…
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