Dr. Steve Regur
& Ed Hidalgo
Dr. Steve Regur: Founder and CEO of Educators Cooperative; Career-connected learning leader
Ed Hidalgo: Nationally recognized education leader, keynote speaker, and advisor
Teaches:
Promoting Career Curiosity in K-12 Settings
Steve Regur, Ed.D. is the founder and CEO of Educators Cooperative and a national leader in career-connected learning, school transformation, and instructional innovation. With more than 30 years of experience in education, he works with schools, districts, workforce leaders, and education partners across the United States and internationally to turn bold ideas into practical, sustainable systems. He is often the partner leaders call when they have an ambitious vision and need to translate it into practice, while also nurturing the human side of change.
Steve is widely recognized for helping educators make career-connected learning part of everyday learning and part of core instruction rather than an add-on. He is the author of the Five Benchmarks for Career Connected Schools, a practical framework grounded in a low-drag, high-yield approach that is teacher-approved, easy to implement, and built on proven instructional strategies. Across his career, Steve has helped launch nine schools and has written the strategic plans, grants, school designs, and policy frameworks that help bold ideas become durable systems.
Under Steve’s leadership, Educators Cooperative develops practical print and digital tools, nationally recognized certifications, and long-term applied research. The organization also includes interns, apprentices, and students as members of development teams. Steve leads an international research advisory team that helps ensure the work remains rigorous, relevant, and responsive to practice.
Ed Hidalgo is a nationally recognized career education and workforce development leader, keynote speaker, and advisor whose work helps schools, districts, and communities rethink how young people discover purpose, possibility, and direction. With a career spanning human resource development, talent strategy, and K–12 innovation, he brings a distinctive cross-sector perspective to identity development, career readiness, and the future of work.
Ed is widely recognized for helping educators use RIASEC and meaningful career conversations to make career development human-centered, relationship-driven, and relevant for students. His work helps schools connect career curiosity to identity, belonging, and opportunity through practical, easy-to-implement strategies. He is especially known for helping educators bring workforce readiness into K–12 settings without losing sight of strong teaching, student relationships, or the core purpose of school.
His experience includes leadership roles with Manpower, Qualcomm, the University of San Diego, and Cajon Valley Union School District, where he helped elevate career readiness as a core part of the student experience. Today, Ed helps educators build practical, human-centered practices that connect education and the workforce in meaningful ways. His work has also contributed to research partnerships and federally funded initiatives exploring the connection between career development, identity, and student well-being.
TOGETHER, STEVE REGUR AND ED HIDALGO
bring a distinctive national voice to the field, helping educators build K–12 systems where career curiosity becomes a natural and powerful part of teaching, learning, and student identity.
masterclass DESCRIPTION
Career development should not be a one-time event. It should be woven into everyday learning.
In this Catapult Masterclass, Dr. Steve Regur and Ed Hidalgo show educators how to spark meaningful career conversations across K–12 classrooms using a shared language, the RIASEC framework, and a dialogic, student-centered approach. Participants will learn how to help students explore their interests, strengths, identities, and future possibilities while engaging families, community partners, and school teams in the process. This masterclass is designed for educators who want to make learning more relevant, personal, and connected to students’ futures. Because career work is identity work. And when students can better understand themselves, they can better imagine what is possible.
MASTERCLASS TRAILER
Program
Career Readiness
For years you have forged partnerships, created pathways, and developed programs…yet we still have empty seats in our classes. While we balance preparing students for both higher education completion and the workforce, it is time to shift our messaging. If you seek broader institutional engagement in your outreach, enrollment management, student recruitment, and marketing efforts, then this masterclass is for you. It’s time to become their first choice.
You can't afford to wait another year.
