Community Spotlight
How a Ford NGL Community using the model’s Community Connected approach fueled a measurable rise in student readiness.
Akron Public Schools is showing what happens when the model moves from concept to culture. After years of developing College & Career Academies that connect classrooms to the community, the district saw the payoff in Ohio’s 2025 state report cards.
Get To Know Y-Plan
A session on Y-Plan (Youth – Plan, Learn, Act, Now) was presented at the LLA conference in LA in April. Y-PLAN is an award-winning, K-12 civic youth engagement strategy developed by UC Berkeley’s Center for Cities + Schools (CC+S).
Ford NGL & YouScience® Collaboration Announcement
YouScience plays a pivotal role in the work we do by bridging the gap between education and careers, aiding students in discovering their aptitudes, and linking them to relevant educational pathways and professions.
Academies Of Nashville Study Visit Leadership Track
Many community and school district leaders can benefit greatly from seeing the academy model firsthand, but don’t need all the implementation details and can’t find 3 consecutive days for travel in their packed calendar.
Empowering Beloit, Wisconsin’s Youth Through Work-Based Learning
The School District of Beloit (SDB) outpaced the State of Wisconsin by a remarkable margin of 3:1 in providing students with meaningful work-based learning (WBL) opportunities!
April Newsletter Intro
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” Alan Cohen
Racine Unified School District – Academies Of Racine
New Apprenticeship Benefits Students and the District Not long ago, Racine Unified School District (RUSD) made news by hosting the first of its kind, custom