Job Shadow: Students explore careers by spending 2-4 hours observing someone in their field of interest discovering the skills and educational background required for a specific career. This program is available to qualified high school juniors and seniors, technical and college students.

Internship: Allows students to develop workplace skills on-the-job with askilled mentor and may be paid or unpaid. Internships may also include Collection of Evidence and be used in Senior Projects.

Mentoring Programs: Be a “role model” for a student by monitoring their progress in school and encouraging them to do better. The students will be offered an opportunity to visit your business to have aclearer picture of what you do at work.

Career Seminar: A group event for high school students which usually includes a tour of a business and interviews with staff highlighting specific careers.

Group Tours: Groups of students, accompanied by educators and chaperones, observe work processes and occupations. The event provides an introduction to careers allowing students to ask questions of people at their business. Student age and group size varies to accommodate the host business.

Career Fair: Share information with students K-12 about your specific career field by hosting a booth at a career fair. Hands-on activities, whenever possible, enhance their experience.

Speakers Bureau: Business and community leaders available to serve as speakers for special classroom presentations and a wide variety of topics including careers, soft skills and many other topics.

Career Pathway Seminar Series: Offered once a month, this after school program provides students an introduction to their high school career pathways in middle school. A panel of local business people present Information on careers selected from a specific pathway.

Soft Skills Panel: Local business leaders present information to teachers and students demonstrating the importance of “soft skills” and other skills required to be successful in today’s workplace.

Power Lunch: Students hear presentations by local business people during their lunch time. This program give students insight into the opportunities available in Yakima County.

Lunch Buddy: Be a friend and role model for a third grade student in a mini-mentoring environment. Local business people volunteer to havelunch with an at-risk student once a week. Mentors help monitor the student’s progress in school and encourage them to do better.

Adopt-a-School, Adopt-a-Class, or Adopt-a-Subject: Give support and resources to one class or school. Establish a formal agreement between your business and the school.

Teacher Tours: Help raise teacher’s awareness of the world of work and the knowledge, attitude, and skills students need to be successful.

Teacher Business Exchange: Provide summer experience for teachers to see applications of math, science, communications, and technology in the workplace identifying skills employees need for successful career.

Corporate News: Use corporate communications to provide positive messages about education partnerships to promote employee involvement in schools and to support area schools. Recognize employee contributions to business education partnerships and focus on academic and athletic achievements of their children.

Motivational Speakers: If your company is having a motivational speaker talk with your employees, arrange for joint sessions with students, parents and school personnel or sponsor special sessions at school.

Employees Recognition: Recognize the parents of students who do well in school; students who make the honor roll, who have perfect attendance, or excel in extracurricular activities, etc.

Monitoring of Student Employees: If your business has part-time student employees, let them know that school is important. Monitor their progress and demonstrate enthusiasm for their success.

Parent Workshops: Provide for parenting sessions in the workplace. Arrange with the schools to offer special topics related to improving parenting skills.

Release Time: Promote release time, paid or unpaid, for employees to attend parent-teacher conferences or to participation in school activities. Develop a company policy on release time for your employees.

Informational Videos: Work with students to produce a five to eight minute video to highlight your business and the job skills required in your work place. Your promotional video can be viewed in area schools, aired on cable TV, and used to encourage internships and corporate tours.

Student Incentives: Provide student incentives for positive reinforcement of academic achievement and good behavior.

Tutoring Services: Volunteer to tutor students who need learning assistance in subjects related to career fields in your business.

Newspapers in Education: Encourage student interest in current events by financially supporting a newspaper subscription for an area school library.

Sustained Funding Partner: Your program or Foundation donation will help assure the continuation of the Business Education Partnership program.