NCPN is dedicated to strengthening the education-to-careers pipeline through professional development in Career Pathways, Adult Career Pathways, career and technical education (CTE), and workforce development.
Events
Conference
NCPN CONNECT 2025
Feb 26–28, Austin, Texas
Join Us for NCPN CONNECT 2025! Discover cutting-edge strategies, innovative solutions, and powerful connections at the NCPN CONNECT 2025 Conference.
Career Pathways Webinar Series
NCPN Connected Conversations: Creating Industry-responsive and Learner-supportive Career Pathways
Oct 18, 2024, through Feb 7, 2025
Join thought leaders in education and industry for this webinar series as they share insights and actionable strategies for building career pathways that align with industry needs and support learner success.
NCPN’s activities serve secondary, postsecondary, adult, and correctional education; workforce and economic development; and workforce investment boards, community-based organizations, and employers.
Through conferences, workshops, and publications, NCPN facilitates the exchange of promising practices and innovations and assists educators and their partners in planning, implementing, evaluating, and improving Career Pathways.
NCPN connects people and resources, provides leadership and professional development, and facilitates the discovery of solutions through partnering at local, state, and national levels.
Annual Conference
Our annual conferences are among the best professional development opportunities in the country. Join us!
Workshops
For high school, community college, and adult educators as well as workforce personnel, tailored to fit local needs
Career Pathways Leadership Certification
Workshops designed to help develop, maintain, and improve Career Pathways
Resources
Visit our resource center for toolkits, books, reports, and other useful materials.
Webinars
Timely information on Career Pathways, stackable credentials, employability skills, and related topics
Leadership Development Academy
Let us help you acquire core leadership skills in a supportive, mentoring environment.
Pathway Perspectives
The online journal of the National Career Pathways Network
Pathways Perspectives is a platform for secondary and postsecondary educators, adult educators, college and career navigators, workforce development professionals, and employers whose work aligns with career pathways, career and technical education, STEM education, and related fields.
Want to write for Connections?
The National Career Pathways Network welcomes article submissions for Pathway Perspectives. Our readership encompasses secondary and postsecondary faculty, administrators, and counselors; adult education professionals; workforce development personnel; policymakers; and employers.
Articles should follow these guidelines:
- Topics should support NCPN’s mission of advancing Career Pathways, Adult Career Pathways, career technical education, and workforce development initiatives.
- Articles should provide information that is useful to readers. Examples include best practices, lessons learned, successful strategies, recent data, and applications of technology or other recent innovations.
- Length: 500–800 words is the preferred length, but longer articles are also welcome. Articles should be submitted as Microsoft Word files.
- Provide links to supporting information.
- Provide author photo(s), logos of featured organizations, and 1-2 high resolution (300 dpi) photos of “action shots” (e.g., students engaged in activities) related to the article.
Thank you for supporting NCPN!
Direct questions to Mark Whitney, editor, at mwhitney@cord.org.