This page will contain lesson plans, activities, and partner resources for educators to refer back to as they onboard students into the Luzerne Learns to Work program and track their progress throughout the academic year. Each participating school district will have a designated liaison(s) who will be responsible for coordinating work-based learning experiences with students and companies.
Program Activities for Grades 9-12
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Leadership Northeast
The mission of Leadership Northeast is to develop informed and committed leaders from all segments of the community who will serve, strengthen and improve Northeastern Pennsylvania. Hundreds of people connect with LNE every year through their Leadership programs, community impact project initiatives and active alumni network.
Classroom teachers have the potential to affect positive development and overall well-being of the region’s youth, a reality that ultimately and profoundly affects the positive development and overall well-being of the community at large. With this reality in mind, Leadership Northeast created the Impact: Leadership in Education program for educators throughout NEPA. Impact is a one-of-a-kind program built to connect the region’s educators with community leaders in private industry, government and the nonprofit sector to close the gap between education and the workforce, and to empower teachers to be progressive agents of positive change within schools. Impact is a 10-month, experience-based development program that immerses teachers into the region. With recruitment efforts in 17 public and private school districts, this experience invites 30 educators per cohort to step outside of their classrooms and explore the surrounding community. They learn crucial and innovative leadership skills while absorbing the realities of the surrounding workforce, taking that information back to their students, their administrations and their colleagues. The curriculum is designed to fit the needs of local public and private education to increase the participants’ capacity to collaborate effectively, to exercise leadership, and to empower them to affect substantial, positive progress in our schools.
For more information on Leadership Northeast’s Impact program, click here
Luzerne Intermediate Unit #18
Luzerne Intermediate Unit #18 is a regional educational service agency that is one of 29 Intermediate Units formed by the Pennsylvania State Legislature to provide support to local school districts, non-public schools, approved private schools and educational partners in support of the approximate 50,000 students in our service area. The Luzerne Intermediate Unit provides innovative, responsive, and cost-effective solutions as needed by the educational community throughout our region. Through leadership, cooperation, and collaboration with our schools and community agencies, the Intermediate Unit provides educators with access to opportunities that deliver the methodologies, best practices, and resources needed to prepare students for post-secondary success.
Educators – you can leverage the team at the LIU 18 for assistance in understanding the career standards and requirements of your high school students and determining the best way to leverage Luzerne Learns to Work to meet the needs of your classroom. Click here to reach out to an LIU 18 representative.
The Institute
The Institute is a nonprofit data, analytics, and research organization that produces data, reports, and studies to inform decision making for public, nonprofit, private, and institutional organizations. Their website contains a data dashboard that has over 150 metrics covering a number of topics to learn more about NEPA and the incredible assets and opportunities that exist here. Visit the Institute’s Indicators Dashboard to get a snapshot of insights into our region.
Junior Achievement
Junior Achievement USA is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices.
Junior Achievement’s programs; in the core content areas of work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy ignite the spark in young people to experience and realize the opportunities and realities of work and life in the 21st century.
Throughout the academic year, Luzerne Learns to Work students will have the opportunity to participate in various Junior Achievement programs, including:
– JA Inspire Career Discovery Experience, which helps inspire young adults on their pathway to a successful future
– JA Company Insight Program, which helps to pair high school students with companies that are willing to provide site tours and job-shadowing opportunities
– JA Tomorrow’s Teachers Program, which connects high school students who are interested in pursuing a future teaching career with opportunities to shadow a teacher in their district and teach an elementary classroom program on community involvement, careers, money, and entrepreneurship.
– Keystone Coding and Careers, which allows high school students to learn computer science and explore STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics) careers with a focus on developing an entrepreneurial mindset.
Click here to explore some of their programs and opportunities!