In existence for over a century, Gateway Technical College (GTC) in Racine, WI, has established a national reputation for industry and education partnerships by leading the way in developing industry certification pathways, dual credit opportunities, innovative teaching and faculty development techniques, and fostering a community of engaged learners.
Ford NGL thinks career academies are a core part of transforming the schooling experience for high school students. So, where do you start learning about them? Right here!
The goals of this webinar are to:
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A companion to the Career Academies 101 webinar, the focus of this webinar is to provide more details about the roles within career academies and those that support the high school career academy model as well as some of the key responsibilities of each role.
With the goal of supporting a Roadmap community in creating a strong foundation for its community-connected transformation, and sustaining it over the long term, this course will offer glimpses into three communities and their journeys with creating key guiding documents and related 3Cs (communication, collaboration & coordination) structures.
Join our expert panelists for this on-demand Ford NGL U Chomp & Chat as they unpack Ford NGL’s approach to the Career Academy model. Our panelists share the power of data, tips on implementing distributed leadership, and discuss the benefits of establishing a culture that supports transformed teaching and learning.
Part of Ford NGL’s Work-Based Learning (WBL) Continuum, the Business Roundtable is a low-intensity activity for learning about and from an employer partner. Business Roundtables are a great place to start if you want to create a high-quality experience between employer partners and teachers or students. Discover the key elements of a quality business roundtable and learn how it can be a rewarding experience for all parties involved.
Part of Ford NGL’s Work-Based Learning (WBL) Continuum, the Worksite Tour is a medium-intensity activity focused on learning with an employer partner. Worksite Tours create opportunities for deeper connections and more time for exploring the business site and the industry, with employee support. Discover what a quality worksite tour entails and the benefits it provides for all stakeholders involved.
A Powerful Partnership Team is a pathway/academy teacher team (which typically includes core academic teachers, CTE teachers and, often, special education teachers and pathway/academy counselor) AND their high-impact business partners.
This course is about how to best support employer organizations and teachers in building sustainable powerful partnership teams. You’ll get the foundational elements using the Ford NGL Blueprint for Powerful Partnerships.
This course is designed to provide Ford NGL communities with solid practices and resources for designing their own “unique to our community” education, training, and support (ETS) program to onboard people new to their community-connected transformation roles.
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How do you engage partners so they stay engaged? Use some of core practices shared by Marc and Kim. Curious about what those are? Shh…we’ll share one right now: Invite partners into the work-based learning experience design process! But wait – there’s so much more to come!
This course is designed to help administrators understand how utilizing the 3Cs, rethinking the use of current staff time, and more, can be critical to helping Inquiry- or Project-Based Learning take hold and flourish in the building and community.
Welcome to this “extra”, or bonus addition, to our webinar regarding in-person Business Roundtables or Roundtable Discussions. As we hope we demonstrated, we think there is a lot of power and potential in business roundtables for a whole host of reasons. We also think this is a work-based learning (WBL) activity that can work almost as well virtually as it does face-to face.
This course provides an introduction to the potential power of project-based learning (PBL), which we believe is an important instructional tool for addressing Strand 1 of Ford NGL’s Framework, Transforming Teaching and Learning, and supporting community-connected transformation.
It is the first product in a series focused on learning about, or deepening one’s understanding of, project-based learning. PBL is a foundational element of Ford NGL’s Community-Connected Learning (CCL) product line.
Ford Next Generation Learning (Ford NGL) believes Portraits of a Graduate (PoG) are critical to Community Connected Transformation.
Why is the PoG so critical? Because the PoG IS the north star for a community’s transformation efforts! The PoG helps to steer the community toward a clear outcome and keep all of the systems, structures, processes, curricula, experiences, and – honestly – everything aligned toward ensuring that a community’s graduates will have the knowledge, skills, experiences, and more they need to have a clear career and life plan for themselves the Monday after graduation.
In this webinar, you will:
Whether, as a district leader or member of the convening organization, you are beginning to create your Steering Committee or you are co-chairing your Steering Committee and are ready to give it a Vitamin B12 shot in the arm, this course is a resource for you as you work with your Ford NGL coaches.
It will (re)ground you in what a Steering Committee is and why it is central to your community-connected transformation efforts, share its key responsibilities and functions, and the course will get you thinking about who should be part of your committee.
If you need it, the course can also support you as you assess the health of your Steering Committee, re-energize your meetings, and evolve your meetings beyond an information sharing body.
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