Westergard is a workforce librarian-in-residence with the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development and leads the Individual Career Mapping program.
Twenty-nine Churchill County High School freshmen participating in Nevada’s Individual Career Mapping (ICM) program have completed all three ACT WorkKeys placement assessments and are now entering the ACT WorkKeys study portal. Their results will guide individualized practice in Applied Math, Workplace Documents, and Graphic Literacy as students prepare to take the National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC) assessments later this school year.
The assessments measure practical workplace skills in math, reading workplace documents, and interpreting graphics. The students have participated in the program through weekly 75-minute sessions since its Oct. 14 launch.
Honors English teacher Andrew Campbell is completing the program alongside his students and preparing to take the NCRC assessments himself. Sue Segura, Churchill County School District’s work-based learning coordinator, is closely monitoring the freshman cohort and working alongside Campbell as the class moves through each stage of the program. Together, they are helping students connect classroom learning with the skills, expectations, and opportunities they will encounter in Nevada’s workforce.
Westergard described the collaboration among educators and workforce partners: “This really is a team sport. Mr. Campbell is doing the work alongside his students, and Dr. Segura is right there helping connect what happens in the classroom to work-based learning. That combination is exactly what we want: students, educators, Navigators, and workforce partners building a common understanding of what career readiness actually looks like.”
Churchill County High School is one of several Nevada school cohorts currently implementing ICM, which connects career exploration, workplace skills, credentials, and realistic next steps toward education, training, and employment.
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