This article originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission.
Key points:
- Employee volunteers can help further students’ accomplishments by creating relationships
- See related article: How did the pandemic impact students’ social capital?
- For more news on career readiness, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page
In July 2023, our team published “People-powered pathways: Lessons in how to build students’ social capital through career-connected learning.” In the report, we describe successes and challenges in bringing social capital–building strategies to a variety of educational settings. Our observations draw from an 18-month pilot during which we leveraged our social capital playbook to provide direct support to a group of three intermediary organizations—Education Strategy Group, Generation Schools Network, and Hawai‘i P-20—collectively supporting 20 sites in the K–12 career pathways space. In the course of the pilot, we sought to understand how schools and nonprofits can make social capital-building an explicit, effective, and equitable component of existing career-connected learning models. …Read More