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Host an Intern this Fall!
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City of Seattle Mayor Ed Murray's Youth Employment Initiative (MYEI) is connecting young people to the necessary income and first-time employment experiences that will influence their future education and career opportunities.
These paid internships provide youth with an opportunity to explore different career options. You can help us support this community-wide effort by participating in the Mayor's Youth Employment Initiative this Fall.
- We are looking for part-time opportunities for 16-24 year olds in Seattle
- Fall internships are 6-week paid opportunities (subsidies are available) starting in November
- Educurious will work with you to develop an appropriate job description, train your supervisors, and connect you with the case managers and young people participating in the program
The deadline for employers to sign up is September 16.
Interested in hosting an intern this fall? Sign up today!
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The
100,000 Opportunities Initiative (100K) is an employer-led effort aimed at connecting opportunity youth with education-friendly jobs. Opportunity Youth are defined as individuals between the ages of 16 and 24 who are out of school and
not working. By partnering with 40+ coalition companies, re-engagement programs across Seattle and King County, and
local
government, 100K seeks to increase and improve pathways to economic opportunity for our young people. Educurious is proud to be the Seattle/King County lead for this work.
Darius Mensah has joined the Educurious team as Program Manager for 100K, bringing with him experience as a school designer, principal, and human resource director. Andrew Crollard has come on board as Data Analyst. He has spent the last five years working with economic, demographic, and workforce data to inform a wide range of decision making stakeholders.
Be sure to follow @Seattle100K on
Twitter to stay updated on the work in our region.
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Partnership with JPMorgan Chase
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We are thrilled to receive a generous grant from JPMorgan Chase as part of their commitment to expanding workforce readiness through their
New Skills at Work initiative. The grant will help us scale our
Career Connection program, our innovative regional career exploration program that bridges the disconnection of youth in school to career pathways and engages employers in supporting these youth with mentorships and internships.
As our collaborator JPMorgan Chase, Northwest Philanthropy Manager, Cat Martin put it, "JPMorgan Chase is committed to addressing the youth unemployment crisis and enabling more young people to obtain the education and credentials they need to be career-ready and successful in well-paying jobs. Scaling the Career Connection program will greatly increase the number of young people who begin career training in high school and end with exposure and knowledge that aligns with good-paying, high-demand jobs."
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New Course: Project America
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With generous funding support over the 2015-2016 school year from Lucas Education Research (LER), Educurious developed a new
American History, digital curriculum that allows students to engage in personalized and rigorous project-based learning. The design is guided by our research-based
design principles
and LER’s
Framework for Rigorous Project-Based Learning
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Students experience the disciplinary work of real historians, including the use of primary sources and artifacts, while literacy supports ensure accessibility for all students. Project America contains seven project-based learning units that build on each other and address American History from the Colonial and early Revolutionary War era through the Industrial Revolution, ensuring appropriate content depth for eighth grade American History. In the final culminating unit students use skills and knowledge from the first six units to create a capstone project where they answer the question, “What does it mean to me to be an American.”
Project America concentrates on a core set of content, concepts and skills that are studied, used, and refined through multiple examples and experiences to ensure deeper learning. Concepts and skills are aligned to the CCSS for History and Social Studies and the College, Career & Civic Life C3 Framework for Social Studies. Skills and concepts are looped across units and assessed over the course of the year in order for students to deepen their expertise over time. We are excited to work with teachers in ten classrooms in Washington State this school year in a design-based research study to refine the development.
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Summer Institute Success!
Last month, over 50 teachers and administrators from across the country gathered for a week of learning, planning, and collaborating at the Educurious Summer Institute. From within four unique strands of focus, teachers designed projects for their classrooms, prepared to use Educurious curriculum, strategized implementation of project-based learning, and learned how to connect in- and out-of-school experience using Career Connection.
Educators learned more about how to bring blended and project-based learning into their schools, heard from experts in the fields of graphic design and film, and participated in a number of field trips.
A big thank you to Truman High School in Federal Way, WA for generously hosting us for the week! Check out some photos of the Educurious Summer Institute below.
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CEO Corner
Are you obsessed with the Rio Olympics like me? What makes these games so compelling? To me, it is the personal stories of hard work, dedication, commitment and continually honing one’s talents on that trajectory toward mastery we often reference. It is about having a network of caring adults, coaches, parents, community members, and peers to support your efforts. It is about helping young people to find and pursue their passions.
As schools begin to open for the new school year, we are pleased to partner with you again to make school compelling. We are eager to continue to work with teachers to engage young people in solving authentic and relevant problems. We are energized to connect young people with admirable and inspiring experts, mentors and role models to support their efforts. We are excited to continue to support youth in finding their interests and incorporating them into their learning.
So, here’s to a great school year. May it be as thrilling as the Olympics!
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