Truly benefitting local businesses while serving students is a worthy goal and Southwest Prep is actively looking for partners in direct educational pipelines. In other words, educational programs within their high school campuses that train specifically for jobs and lead directly to those jobs...
Truly benefitting local businesses while serving students is a worthy goal and Southwest Prep is actively looking for partners in direct educational pipelines. In other words, educational programs within their high school campuses that train specifically for jobs and lead directly to those jobs upon satisfactory completion. Employers need skilled workers and educational institutions mean well, but a more direct relationship is the key to successfully providing workers who walk out of high school with a diploma AND the specific skills needed to obtain high-potential jobs. These partnerships take effort to develop but once created serve a real need especially times of higher than average unemployment. These forward-thinking and proactive approaches prevent dropout and increase student engagement and achievement. Regardless of a student’s ability or academic aspirations, the truth is that they must have job skills to be successful. Even students who will one day become engineers, doctors, lawyers or other “white collar” workers will benefit from these programs. Southwest Preparatory School has the students but they need to find partners who are committed to working toward a successful job pipeline program.
%newline%Southwest Prep is proactively creating opportunities for students to learn real-world skills.
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%newline%A pilot program at its Northeast Campus on Austin Highway is aptly named the “Service Team.” What started as an idea to get students involved in helping local businesses stay graffiti-free has become a program to start a school-based business which will not only build goodwill in the community but will teach students entrepreneurial skills and show them how a small business runs. Students will be involved in every part of the process and will rotate through the various functions of the business. The entrepreneurial spirit is a powerful force that drives change in every human endeavor and applies to every academic and career aspiration. Mentors, donors and other corporate sponsors are needed to support the program and provide learning opportunities.
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