Arts, Entertainment, & Design Career Cluster

The Arts, Entertainment, and Design Career Cluster is a Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathway in the Modern National Career Clusters® Framework from Advance CTE that prepares students for careers in the creative industries. Through hands-on learning, students develop technical and employability skills while exploring career pathways in areas such as graphic design, digital media, animation, photography, audio and video production and visual arts. The framework helps students build transferable skills and prepare for college, industry certifications, and high-demand careers.

Arts, Entertainment, and Design courses help students explore careers, build career-ready skills, and prepare for opportunities in today's growing creative economy. Through Arts, Entertainment, and Design Career and Technical Education (CTE), students develop technical and employability skills while learning about graphic design, digital media, animation, photography, audio and video production, and visual arts. With strong demand for creative and digital skills across many industries, these courses prepare students for college, industry-recognized certifications, and a wide range of rewarding careers.

Savvas CTE Arts, Entertainment, and Design courses help students develop the technical knowledge and career-ready skills needed for success in the creative industries. Students build skills in graphic design, digital media, animation, photography, and audio and video production while gaining hands-on experience with industry-standard Adobe® Creative Cloud® software, including Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Premiere Pro®, and After Effects®. They also strengthen creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and other employability skills through real-world learning experiences.

Savvas CTE Arts, Entertainment, and Design courses prepare students to explore a wide range of careers across the Arts, Entertainment, and Design Career Cluster. Students build foundational knowledge and career-ready skills while exploring pathways such as Design, Visual Arts, and Multimedia Production. These pathways introduce students to in-demand careers in graphic design, digital media, animation, game design, photography, film and video production, and other creative industries while preparing them for college and future career opportunities.

Savvas CTE Arts, Entertainment, and Design courses prepare students for college and career success through a comprehensive Career and Technical Education (CTE) curriculum. Students develop career-ready technical and employability skills, explore in-demand arts, entertainment, and design career pathways, and apply their learning through real-world, hands-on experiences that reflect today's creative industries.

Yes. Savvas CTE Arts, Entertainment, and Design courses help districts advance Perkins V priorities by providing high-quality CTE curriculum that supports career readiness, equitable access to career pathways, industry-recognized certification preparation, and workforce-aligned learning. Flexible digital courses make it easier for schools to expand CTE opportunities and improve student outcomes.

Savvas CTE Arts, Entertainment, and Design courses include comprehensive teacher resources designed to simplify planning and support effective CTE instruction. Educators receive course syllabi, pacing guides, answer keys, blended learning guides, digital courseware access, and PowerPoint presentations for select courses. An on-demand, self-paced professional development course also helps teachers confidently implement the curriculum and maximize student success.

Savvas CTE is a digital-only CTE curriculum designed for flexible implementation in classrooms, virtual programs, and blended learning environments. The online courseware gives students anytime, anywhere access to engaging content while providing teachers with powerful digital tools to manage instruction, monitor progress, and personalize learning.

Savvas CTE is delivered through the award-winning Savvas Realize® learning management platform and integrates with many popular LMS.. Schools can seamlessly connect the digital CTE curriculum with Canvas®, Google Classroom™, Schoology®, AGILIX Buzz®, Blackboard®, and D2L® Brightspace®, making it easy to fit into existing teaching and learning workflows.