Exploring Alberta’s Dual Credit Pathways: Expanding Opportunities for Student Success

Overview

This eLeadership Guide explores the purpose, structure, and provincial context of dual credit programming in trades and technologies. It focuses on the development and delivery of programs across diverse contexts, highlighting system-level approaches that expand access, strengthen participation, and support successful student transitions to post-secondary education, apprenticeship education, and careers.

Enhancing Career Pathways for Alberta’s Youth Through Dual Credit Programming: eLeadership Outcomes

Participants will:

  • explore the purpose, structure, and provincial context of dual credit programming in trades and technologies.
  • examine Alberta stories of practice to identify effective program models and partnership approaches with post-secondary institutions and industry.
  • analyze system-level approaches to designing and implementing dual credit programs across diverse educational contexts.
  • assess opportunities to expand access, strengthen participation, and align programming with workforce and community needs.
  • identify key resources, tools, and actionable strategies to strengthen system capacity, coherence, and collaborative partnerships in dual credit pathway development.

Source: This graphic is adapted from the Continuous Improvement Cycle in the Alberta Education Funding Manual for School Authorities 2025/26 School Year.

Contact

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10665 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton, AB T5J 3S9
P: 780.540.9205
E: admin@cass.ab.ca

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