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Career Development and Occupational Studies

CDOS New York State Learning Standards

The Learning Standards for Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) include key ideas, performance indicators describing expectations for students, and sample tasks suggesting evidence of progress toward the standards.

Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Resource Guide

The Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Resource Guide with Core Curriculum is a companion document to the CDOS learning standards. It further develops the core content for each learning standard and career major.  The document is also rich with teacher developed classroom activities that help students achieve the CDOS standards. The CDOS Resource Guide can also be viewed in its component parts below. 

New York State Academic Learning Standards


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