Resources
Fostering AI-Ready Building & Moving CTE Pipelines
This report explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the skills, tools, and tasks in construction, advanced manufacturing, and supply chain careers—collectively known as Building & Moving occupations. Drawing on labor market data, field interviews, and AI exposure indices, it offers practical insights for educators, policymakers, and employers on how to build CTE pipelines that prepare students for an AI-driven future. From robotics on job sites to predictive maintenance in manufacturing, the message is clear: AI won’t replace these jobs—but it will reinvent them.
Fostering AI-Ready Cultivating Resources CTE Pipelines
Cultivating examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping agriculture, natural resources, and food systems work—fields rooted in hands-on expertise and environmental stewardship. This report blends national data with industry insights to show where automation is changing the nature of work and where human judgment still leads. For educators, policymakers, and workforce leaders, it offers timely guidance on rethinking CTE pathways to prepare learners for careers that are increasingly tech-enabled but remain deeply human.
Fostering AI-Ready Caring for Communities CTE Pipelines
This report explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the human-centered work of healthcare, education, and social services—fields that make up the Caring career cluster. Blending labor market data, expert interviews, and task-level AI exposure analysis, the report offers clear, actionable insights for designing career pathways that prepare learners for a tech-augmented future. From virtual nursing assistants to AI-powered lesson planning, the future of caring isn't less human—it’s more empowered.
Fostering AI-Ready Creating & Experiencing CTE Pipelines
What happens when artificial intelligence enters creative careers? Creating dives into how AI is reshaping the work of artists, designers, writers, and media producers—not replacing them, but redefining what it means to create. Drawing on data and real-world stories, this report examines how tools like generative AI are being used across the creative economy and what that means for the future of CTE. The takeaway: creativity is still essential—but now, it speaks fluent machine.
Preparing Career & Technical Education Students for an AI-Driven Workforce
This comprehensive report examines the intersection of artificial intelligence and Career and Technical Education (CTE), tracing AI’s historical trajectory, its influence on the future of work, and the implications for CTE students, educators, and institutions. Drawing on research, policy developments, and emerging practice, it highlights both the opportunities and challenges of integrating AI into career and technical education—from preparing students with durable human skills to rethinking curriculum, partnerships, and workforce pathways. The report is designed to inform educators, policymakers, employers, and researchers alike, offering insights into how CTE can adapt in real time while also positioning itself as a leader in shaping equitable, future-ready workforce preparation.
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