The mission of school- based business alliances is to link the resources from the community stakeholders to enhance the School-to-Career transition of every student, as they become responsible and productive citizens.
Business Alliances provide students with opportunities for:
Career-based alliance activities include:
Career Expos Guest speaking
Practice job interviews Field trips/site tours
Job Shadowing Internship
Business ethics discussion Resume reviews
What is a School/Business Alliance?
A collaboration of business, community, and school leaders committed to educating each student to be a responsible and productive citizen who can effectively manage future challenges.
What are typical School/Business Alliance activities?
Meeting Dates for 2017-2018
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Thursday, October 26, 2017
**November, 2017 - No Meeting**
Thursday December 7, 2017
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Business Alliances provide students with opportunities for:
- Career exploration and development
- Work-based-learning experiences
- Learning the value of school and academics as preparation for career development
Career-based alliance activities include:
Career Expos Guest speaking
Practice job interviews Field trips/site tours
Job Shadowing Internship
Business ethics discussion Resume reviews
What is a School/Business Alliance?
A collaboration of business, community, and school leaders committed to educating each student to be a responsible and productive citizen who can effectively manage future challenges.
What are typical School/Business Alliance activities?
- Business spotlight
- Career Connections (monthly round table career conversations/based on clusters)
- Career Expos
- Mentors
- Speakers Bureau
- Dual Enrollment Day
- Senior Event
- Job Shadowing
- National Engineering Week
- Truck Fair
- Internships
- Leadership Series-Chamber
- Job Readiness
- Employability skills
- Parents Open House
- Friday Fairs
- Mock Interviews/Resumes
- Herb Gardens (example) support garden way (curriculum)
- Interdisciplinary integration and classroom integration b/w CTE and core subjects
- Attend staff meetings (needs of teachers and how B.A. can support teachers)
- CTSO Leadership Conference
- Business Alliance members judge CTSO competitions
- Arrange for college and business tours
- Protector Exams
- Xtreme Beginnings/Great Xplorations…Countywide Events
- Mini Job Fairs (cluster specifics at times)
- Summer Job Series (how to get a summer job presentation)
- Career Portfolio (assessments, resumes, examples of work, profiles)
- Financial Literacy (workshop)
- Career & College Ready (presentation in classroom)
- Online mentors (F4K)
- Externships (teacher’s short term work experiences)
- 21st Century Skills Workshops
- School Breakfast at beginnings of year showing teachers Business Alliance sponsorship
- Middle School students tour Wake Tech
- Teacher tours to Businesses
- Quarterly Summits (Administration, parents, teachers, Business Alliance, students)…. hot issues topics driven by school
Meeting Dates for 2017-2018
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Thursday, October 26, 2017
**November, 2017 - No Meeting**
Thursday December 7, 2017
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Thursday, May 24, 2018