Career Pathways

CTU Foundation believes in ensuring all students have access to high quality and relevant Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs in every Chicago Public School through Build Your Own, a Career Pathways Initiative for students, teachers, families, and the community.

By building partnerships with the skilled trades, school district, employers, and local representatives, Build Your Own addresses the workforce skill gap due to decades of disinvestment in CTE programs at neighborhood schools.

To address the shortage of CTE teachers and to ensure our students are career ready, the Instructors Apprenticeship is a professional development program to train and support CTE teachers in the development of their technical, cultural, and pedagogical competencies.

Build Your Own develops a system of programs and services as a model to close the racial wealth gap for families in underserved communities.