What is School-to-Work? School-to-Work is an initiative started by President Clinton in 1994. The goal is to improve the connection between what we learn in school and what we learn at work. School-to-work does this by creating new opportunities for ALL students to learn in new and different ways so that we can be better contributors to the future workforce in the United States, and around the world. Examples of school-to-work opportunities for students might be: job shadowing: going out to a workplace and following someone around who actually does that job everyday to learn more about what they do, how they do it, and what skills we would need to do that job. job interviewing and application: learning how to develop a job resume, how to give a good interview, how to make a resume that employers will pay attention to, and actually practicing our job interviewing skills through pretend and real interviews. career exploration: learning more about different careers, what kind of education it takes to do a job, and how much money you make in a certain career area. Having speakers come into school to tell us what they do, going on tours of companies, and trying out different jobs while we are going to school are other examples. Why is School-to-Work Important? School-to-work is about connecting what happens in school to what happens in work so that we can see that what we learn at school and what we learn at work are both important and related. School-to-work is for every single student, no matter who you are! It's up to us as students, to get involved and learn about school-to-work so that we can be part of making good things happen for our futures. We think it's important for students to hear from other students about school-to-work and why it's important. We think school to work is important because: students want a good education which prepares them for work it prepares us for the future and how to be the best that we can be it will give us more opportunities to explore things in the real world and develop skills we need to be successful in the year 2000 and beyond Hopefully it will change education to focus on the individual dreams, goals, and futures of students to give them the skills to be the best they can be. Back to Students Only! Page

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