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Professional Development Opportunity
Are you using or planning to use SkillsUSA Career Essentials: Experiences courses and their associated assessments? If so, consider joining SkillsUSA’s virtual opportunities for Career Essentials Certified Teacher training. There[…]
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Free Career Exploration for Students and Schools
“Cue Career” aggregates the resources of industry associations for career exploration/navigation and workforce development and is a free resource for schools and students. Students can explore careers by watching video[…]
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SkillsUSA Week 2020 Highlights Advocacy in Washington, D.C.
SkillsUSA staff and national officers carried out several advocacy events Feb. 4-5 as part of SkillsUSA Week and CTE Month. On Feb. 4, 12 members of the national officer team,[…]
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HIRING: Director of Business Partnerships Development
SkillsUSA is seeking qualified candidates for the position of director for the department of Business Partnerships Development. Ideal candidates will bring a track record of fundraising success, excellent team leadership[…]
Read moreSkillsUSA Framework
The SkillsUSA Framework illustrates how students fulfill the mission of the organization “to empower members to become world-class workers, leaders and responsible American citizens.”
PERSONAL SKILLS
Integrity
Work Ethic
Professionalism
Responsibility
Adaptability/Flexibility
Self-Motivation
WORKPLACE SKILLS
Communication
Decision Making
Teamwork
Multicultural Sensitivity and Awareness
Planning, Organizing and Management
Leadership
TECHNICAL SKILLS GROUNDED
IN ACADEMICS
Computer and Technology Literacy
Job-Specific Skills
Safety and Health
Service Orientation
Professional Development
About SkillsUSA
SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce. SkillsUSA helps each student excel. We provide educational programs, events and competitions that support career and technical education in the nation’s classrooms.
SkillsUSA Champions magazine
This issue is focuses on the SkillsUSA Championships.
Participating in competition enhances and provides an assessment of a student’s technical skills.
Winter 2020, Volume 54, No. 2
What’s New: WLTI
The Washington Leadership Training Institute galvanizes over 500 students. Read the full story.
Championships Insiders Guide
How do SkillsUSA competitions prepare students for careers? Find out from contest organizers and repeat winners. Read the full story.
How She Rolls
Commercial fishing, state politics, restaurant kitchens, roller derby. Reality show topics? No, they’re all part of this teacher’s life story. Read the full story.
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Alumni Member
Fifteen years after his last SkillsUSA conference, medalist Brad Lang returned as a hero. See why he was chosen to throw the first pitch at a ballgame during the national event. Read the full story.
SkillsUSA
Career Essentials
SkillsUSA Career Essentials suite resources engage students in defining, implementing and measuring their career-readiness skills along every point in their educational journey whether it be middle-school, high-school or college/postsecondary.
FOUNDATIONS
The Career Essentials: Foundations curriculum is sourced in the SkillsUSA Framework and contributes, along with a multitude of other resources, to defining career readiness.
EXPERIENCES
SkillsUSA Career Essentials: Experiences is the next generation of employability skill-building curricula developed for today’s students.
ASSESSMENTS
The SkillsUSA Career Essentials suite provides assessments for career and technical education that are supported and developed by industry, education and policy leaders.
SkillsUSA National Calendar
SkillsUSA Alumni and Friends
The SkillsUSA Alumni and Friends Association’s mission is to help promote SkillsUSA in terms of time, talent and financial resources at all levels – local, district, state and national.
2020 SkillsUSA Week
SkillsUSA Week is celebrated in February each year.
Below are photos from this year’s SkillsUSA Week celebrations from across the country.
