A number of Catholic secondary schools came together recently to explore the question ‘What does good career guidance look like when it’s good?’ The ultimate goal is to create a whole of school Career Development and Education Framework that encompasses both career guidance and career education programs. Each school has identified a starting point that most meets their school priorities; these include: creating a career education curriculum for Year 7 students, raising the career self-efficacy of students in Year 9, revamping the PLP Learning and Assessment Plan to include work place learning, creating a whole school approach to career development, utilising coaching programs to enhance career education and maximise the key capabilities, addressing the Year 11 gap in career education. Schools also explored the importance of incorporating evidence and data collection to underpin the process of school inquiry.

  A requirement of the Framework is to embed the CESA Key Capabilities as a means for ensuring students have a range of skills and dispositions to be active citizens in future learning, work, community and personal life. The Key Capabilities are highlighted in the CESA Living Learning Leading Framework.

A number of regional schools were able to particpate via video conferencing,