College and Career Readiness

CVE focuses on career growth and development. While elementary students are exposed to many different career options they can work towards in their futures, each day they are learning valuable soft skills that will be vital to reaching future college and career goals.

Skills such as responsibility and respect are integral to attaining and retaining future careers. Maintaining a routine of regular student attendance and on-time arrival will also support students in creating positive work habits. Completing homework and arriving to school prepared are all tasks that will support the future success of our learners.

In a school-setting, students also learn the value of teamwork. Students will be able to recognize their own strengths and unique skills, as well as the gifts of other students. When students utilize and appreciate each other's strengths and talents, they can synergize and create projects and ideas that may have not been able to develop on their own.

Each month we visit classrooms to complete classroom lessons utilizing the research-based program Second Step. Second Step provides students with a common language and reviews such subjects as school readiness, empathy, compassion, calming down strong emotions, and problem-solving. 3rd and 4th grade students will have the opportunity to reflect on how these skills can help them reach future goals by answering career-based prompts in their student portals.

Choices and actions quickly turn into habits. It is our goal for all CVE students to create positive and helpful habits that will aid in supporting their individual future goals and enable them to become productive and contributing citizens.