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A Postsecondary Partner as Your Convening Organization

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.

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Career Academies 101

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:

  • Develop a deeper understanding of career academies
  • Build excitement to start building the structure together
  • Answer the question: “What does this mean for me?”
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Ford NGL’s WBL Continuum: The Business Roundtable

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.

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Ford NGL’s WBL Continuum: The Worksite Tour

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.

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Foundations of Powerful Partnership Teams

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.

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The ABCs of Branding and Strategic Communications

The learning goals for this webinar are:

  • You will understand why this tactic matters.
  • You will understand why a partnership system is needed for equity and sustainability.
  • You will be introduced to the key components of, and the systems-level process for, Powerful Partnerships.
  • You will learn some key Dos and Don’ts as you begin this work.
  • You will understand who should be involved in this work
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The Nuts & Bolts of a Virtual Roundtable Discussions

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.

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Power of PBL

The Power of PBL

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. 

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What’s An Industry Council and Why Should Every Community Have One?

  • What’s the power behind having industry councils? It is a way to maximize business and industry participation in and with career academies and, more specifically, career pathways within academies.This is particularly important in larger communities where you may have the same or similar academies in multiple high schools, allowing you to effectively utilize business and community resources to support academies across the district that fall within one industry sector.
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