The Business Alliance Purpose:
Business Alliance recruits local businesses to form relationships with a middle or high school. Between six and twelve businesses, along with the school administration, make up a Business Alliance. A Business Alliance provides resources (ideas and expertise - not cash) to their schools through work-based, connecting, and school-based activities. These activities are channeled through the school principal to ensure that they support the school's instructional program. Businesses become involved in the life of a school, not just on a project-by-project basis, but through a continued, supporting relationship with the school's faculty and administration.
Membership is voluntary and renewable annually.
The Business Alliance Mission Statement
Business alliances combine the efforts of the school and area business partners to benefit individual students and the community through collaborative activities that underscore the value of education and the relationship between education and career opportunities.
Business Alliance Programs:
Work Based Activities:
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Career Shadowing for Students and Teachers
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Student Internships
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Teacher Externships
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Workplace Mentoring
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Service Learning Experiences
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Tours of Industry/Business
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Co-op Experiences
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Apprenticeships
Connecting Activities
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Develop Integrated Curriculum
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Share Employee Training Programs with Faculty
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Train Teachers in Workplace Applications
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Work with School Improvement Teams
School-Based Activities
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Career/Trade Fairs
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Speakers Bureaus
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Career Monitoring
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Electronic Mentoring
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School-Based Enterprises
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Interviewing Practice
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School Web Site Development
Join Us
We know that all students learn more when given the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills to real world situations. Wake County's School-to-Career initiative is designed to combine demanding core curriculum with practical work-based applications. The Business Alliance provides the catalyst for this initiative. There are over 539 Business Alliance members and growing. Come join other local businesses that are making a difference in education. Davis Drive Middle/Green Hope High School's Business Alliance members include American Airlines,Cottman Transmissions, UPS, TrainThemUp, Promotional Partners Inc., School of Communications Arts, BB&T Bank, Town of Cary, GSK, Strategic HR Solutions, and Just Call Brenda Real Estate. For more information contact the Career Development Coordinator at Davis Drive Middle School.
For more information about Wake County's Business Alliance program click here.
CTE Goal: 95% in 2008