Virginia's CTE Cybersecurity Fundamentals course (6302) provides a critical on-ramp for students entering the cybersecurity workforce pipeline, but aligning its VDOE tasks to national workforce frameworks takes deliberate, structured work. This session focuses on how the Virginia Cyber Range is currently approaching that alignment, including the development of a mapping spreadsheet designed to connect 6302 course tasks to the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework.
Participants will get an inside look at the methodology behind the mapping process, how the spreadsheet is being built out, and the decisions that go into connecting K-12 instructional content to workforce-ready competencies. The session will also touch on the transition from KSA to TKS terminology as context for why this work matters now.
This is a birds-of-a-feather working session; attendees are encouraged to share their own alignment experiences, ask questions, and contribute to the conversation. Whether you're just starting to think about workforce alignment or already working through similar challenges, the goal is peer-to-peer exchange around a shared problem
