In the Workplace Aurora
Improving economic development is vital to all communities and central to long-term success with Aurora’s efforts to ensure economic prosperity across such a large, diverse community. To further such efforts, Illinois has enacted policies requiring school districts to implement work-based learning. Work-Based Learning requires committed, long-term partnerships with employers across all Career Pathways, and building these relationships and engaging employers in the possibilities and benefits of work-based learning takes significant time.
In the Workplace Aurora will jump start these efforts by leveraging existing community-based, business-focused organizations to bring employers and school districts together for training led by NIU’s Illinois P-20 Network, a statewide leader in work-based learning and career readiness. The In the Workplace Auora effort is supported by the generosity of the Dunham Foundation.
East Aurora School District 131, West Aurora School District 129, and the VALEES EFE leadership have been in close collaboration with the Illinois P-20 Network to implement this exciting project, which seeks to engage employers in the benefits and mechanics of the work-based learning continuum. Employer engagement events are now scheduled, and employers from throughout the Aurora region are encouraged to attend one of the three sessions (with a meal included) to learn more about both why they would want to collaborate with the school districts and how to collaborate on bringing students in to the workplace to apply the skills that they are learning at school and to learn about careers.
Join us at any of the following free sessions:
April 16 – 11.30 AM – Aurora Economic Alliance Office (map) Lunch included at no cost to attendees
April 27 – 11.30 AM – East Aurora School District 131 District Office (map) Lunch included at no cost to attendees
June 11 – 8.00 AM – West Aurora Weisner Center (map) Breakfast included at no cost to attendees
