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Work-Based Learning Opportunities

City Schools aims to ensure that all students have a work-based learning experience and that our high school students engage in robust hands-on opportunities to prepare them for their post-secondary pathways while building their professional networks.

Become a City Schools Career Readiness partner and ambassador by participating in one or more of the opportunities below and sharing it with your network.

For more information, and to learn about additional partnership opportunities, contact Adenike Akintilo.

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Pathway Advisory Committee (PAC)
Join one of our ten Career Technical Education (CTE) PACs and help Advise, Assist, and Advocate in improving the rigorousness of City Schools CTE programming, certification obtainment for students, work experience opportunities, and alignment to the demands and needs of the respective industries.

Host a High School Intern
Becoming an internship host site is a high-value opportunity for both employers and students. It provides employers short-term talent with a long-term impact.

At City Schools, our seniors enrolled in the work-based learning course can participate in internship opportunities their Spring semester before graduation.

City Schools also partners with the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development for summer internship opportunities through their YouthWorks summer experience. And we work with companies around the region to connect our high school students to their established high school internship programs.

Learn more about
hosting a graduating senior during their Spring semester internship experience or the YouthWorks summer experience.

Apprenticeship Maryland: Youth Apprenticeship
Youth apprenticeship is good for business. Becoming an apprenticeship site has many rewards, and with the support of City Schools, rather easy to launch. Youth apprenticeships:

  • Build your workforce.

  • Connect to the talent of the future.

  • Contribute to your bottom line.

  • Plan for employee succession.

Learn more and begin the process.

Shorter Term Work-Based Learning Opportunities

Type

Options

CTE Clinical/Cert Hours

  • Provide students in related CTE programs on the job experiences to earn their clinical or certification hours

Guest Speakers

  • Take part in the monthly Career Ready Friday series

  • Be included in the Work-Based Learning list of partners

  • Connect with schools directly through the PIE portal

Career Days

  • Be included in the Work-Based Learning list of partners

  • Connect with schools directly through the PIE portal

Career Fairs

  • Take part in the Fall Junior Achievement Career Fair with City Schools

  • Connect with graduating seniors in the Mayor’s Recruitment and Postsecondary Fair in the Spring

  • Be included in the Work-Based Learning list of partners

  • Connect with schools directly through the PIE portal

Company Tours

  • Coordinate to host specific CTE programs

  • Be included in the Work-Based Learning list of partners

  • Connect with schools directly through the PIE portal

Job Shadow

  • Take part in the Junior Achievement’s 8th and 10th grade job shadows with City Schools

  • Coordinate to host specific CTE programs

  • Be included in the Work-Based Learning list of partners

  • Connect with schools directly through the PIE portal

Industry-Led Projects

  • Coordinate to host specific CTE programs

  • Be included in the Work-Based Learning list of partners

  • Connect with schools directly through the PIE portal

“Professional Development”: Resume Workshop/Mock Interview

  • Take part in the Maryland Business Roundtable and City Schools Professional Development Days

  • Be included in the Work-Based Learning list of partners

  • Connect with schools directly through the PIE portal