Normalize Resources
Educational experiences connect students to previous “lived” experiences and feel relatable and comfortable to students.
Videos
Christina Perez: Building Trades Student
Christina is a student who loves learning and working in the building trades. Her openness to the career was due to the "normalizing" of the career by her father from a young age, the relevance of the program to her interests, and the supportive classroom environment that made learning engaging. The teacher also empowered her by supporting her in teaching others. Her experiences from watching her father made her a natural leader. Thanks to a lot of factors, Christina is resilient to bullying and misinformation and has a great career ahead of her.
Building Effective Learning Environments: Normalize
This professional development experience for Career and Technical Education (CTE) and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educators focuses on the first of four N.E.I.R indicators of an effective learning environment: Normalize. Based on research related to a sense of belonging, education can overcome traditional gender biases and program misinformation by "normalizing" these critical career opportunities to all students beginning at an early age.
Shared Effective Practices
Posters for Encouraging and Recruiting Nontraditional Students
Normalizing Nontraditional Careers for Children (Pre-K to Grade 5)
Color Your Career Activity Book
Normalizing Nontraditional Careers for Children (Pre-K to Grade 5)
Suggested Sites
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