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 contribute to successful student transitions to post-secondary education, apprenticeships, and careers.

To explore to explore this topic from a system perspective, this eLeadership Guide will use the Alberta Government Continuous Improvement Cycle (pp. 32-33) to examine this topic. The Continuous Improvement Cycle includes the key components of explore, develop, take action, and evaluate.

Source: This graphic is adapted from the Continuous Improvement Cycle in the Alberta Education Funding Manual for School Authorities 2026/27 School Year (p. 33).

Enhancing Career Pathways for Alberta’s Youth Through Dual Credits: eLeadership Guide 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 needs.
• identify key resources, tools, and actionable strategies to strengthen system capacity, coherence, and collaborative partnerships in dual credit pathway development.