Your Work, Made Easier
If you’re a CTE director, superintendent, or school administrator, you know the challenge: mandates like the Individual Career & Academic Plan (ICAP), Perkins V, and Postsecondary & Workforce Readiness (PWR) require years-long engagements, student and parent involvement, and community partnerships for work-based learning.
Unfortunately, it can feel impossible to implement these programs effectively when you have limited staff, systems, and time.
That’s where BEA comes in.
We understand that career-connected learning is essential for your students’ successful entry into the workforce. That’s why we make it simple, scalable, and sustainable.
K-12 Education IS Workforce Development
Students who graduate without a plan are more likely to:
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Drop out of college
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Struggle with underemployment after graduation
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Carry heavy student loan debt without a clear return on investment

The days of sending students to college without direction should be over. Schools can—and must—prepare them to graduate with purpose.
How BEA Helps Schools and Educators
We partner with educators to turn career readiness into a seamless, repeatable system.
The BEA works with you to design a career-connected learning program that will:
Meet requirements through pre-built tools and curriculum
Implement programs like internships and career exploration without extra burden
Track student progress with real-time data on interests and engagement
Connect classrooms to careers by linking learning with the local job market
Why It Matters
When schools embed career-connected learning, everyone wins.
Teachers, parents, and advisory staff play a critical role in guiding students. With BEA’s proven, scalable tools, schools can make career exploration and readiness a repeatable process year after year.
The result? Higher student engagement, better graduation outcomes, and communities with a stronger, homegrown workforce.
30%
of students in career exploration programs are more likely to graduate high school
59%
of students want more career-connected learning opportunities
39%
of students say CCL experiences have informed their plans after high school
What Educators Are Saying
"If you want our best and brightest students, you want them in your shops and you want them in your factories and in your offices as interns, because once they've had a taste of what that's like, they will adjust their educational path. My answer to anything related to workforce prep is going to start with the Pikes Peak Business Education Alliance"
​Peter Hilts, Superintendent, School District 49
CCL MARKETPLACE: Career-Connected Learning Made Simple for Educators
The BEA’s CCL MARKETPLACE is an online platform designed to help teachers, counselors, and advisory staff integrate career-connected learning into their classrooms and schools without adding extra work. It gives you the tools, resources, and connections to guide students from exploration to real-world experience
How it supports your work:
Streamline Career Advisory: Provide students with meaningful activities to inform their Individual Career & Academic Plans (ICAP).
Access Student Interest & Engagement Data: Make informed scheduling and pathway decisions using current student insights and data.
Enhance Classroom Learning: Connect with career representatives to bring hands-on, experiential learning into lessons.
Offer Work-Based Opportunities: Easily manage internships, mentorships, job shadows, and lower intensity career exploration activities.
Leverage Ready-to-Use Resources: Curriculum, presentations, and training content are available online and in person.
Gather, analyze, and utilize data to support career exploration programs and reporting requirements.
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