Empowering Educators, Enriching Futures
Bring Career-Connected Learning to Your Classroom
Empower your students with hands-on, real-world experiences that prepare them for success in college, career, and life. Our career-connected learning (CCL) initiatives are designed to integrate seamlessly into your classroom or school, providing valuable opportunities for your students to explore their interests and develop essential skills.
Career Connect
Our menu of career exposure opportunities connects New Orleans public high school students with industry professionals and real-world experiences. Best of all, with Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans, we help alleviate the mental load of managing this work by simplifying the process of coordinating student learning opportunities with business and community partners.
School Support
YouthForce NOLA provides public high schools in New Orleans with a set of supports intended to bring career-connected learning to life. We help schools develop, build, and refine high-quality, equitable career pathway programs by improving and expanding students’ career exploration, soft skills learning, technical training, and work-based experience.
Soft Skills Educator Offerings
You’re committed to improving your craft to help your students explore and successfully navigate their next steps in life. Through soft skills educator programming, we share the tools and support you need to cultivate the soft skills your students need to be successful, no matter their next steps in life.
Looking to Reimagine High School in Your Community?
Are you an educator outside of New Orleans interested in learning more about starting an Internship with high school students? Our Solutions Lab can help you get a jump start designing, growing, and strengthening career-connected learning opportunities including an evidence-based, effective Internship program.
School Resources
We have a set of tools and resources that high schools can use in advancing career-connected learning in their schools. This includes guidance on Perkins funding.
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