Postsecondary Pathways
Work-Based Learning
Our partnerships provide work-based learning programs that engage students in activities to develop their career readiness skills while our Work-Based Learning Professional Development series supports school staff in advancing career preparatory programming.
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Cultivating Relationships
New Visions works with a wide range of partners to broker relationships with schools and to support the customization and implementation of work-based learning programs in the New York City context. By serving as an intermediary, we help ensure these programs are successful and that schools across the city have access to opportunities that they are unable to provide on their own.
Genesys Works helps high school students achieve career success through skills training, work experience, and mentorship. The program includes an 8-week summer training with 160 hours of professional and technical skills development, followed by corporate internships where students work 20 hours weekly for up to 12 months during their senior year.
SuitUp increases students’ career readiness and empowers students to discover their passions through experiential learning opportunities and mentorship from corporate volunteers. Students interact with corporate volunteers who coach them on professional skills such as marketing, finance, and design strategy through business plan competitions.
New Visions is partnering with iCouldBe to provide postsecondary readiness and support to high school students through engagement with an online community of professional mentors to explore interests, gain insight, and plan for future postsecondary pathway options.
The Urban Education Initiative (UEI) is a program by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP that introduces high school students to the law firm and provides structured engagement opportunities for students to learn about the legal profession and other employment fields in one of the largest law firms in the nation. The day long program provides a career panel, networking lunch, and simulated moot court experience and aims to create a potential pipeline to encourage students to pursue college and consider a career in the legal sector.
Work-Based Learning Professional Development Series
The New Visions Work-Based Learning Professional Development Series is designed to support schools in advancing a career-ready vision. This year-long series targets schools that have an anchor work-based learning program (like the NVPS Career Academy) and are using it as a foundation to build a 9th through 12th grade continuum of student experiences. Schools that complete the series will produce a Work-Based Learning Action Plan that includes a Profile of a Graduate, 9th through 12th grade work-based learning sequence, definition of work-based learning team roles and responsibilities, master calendar, Career Development, and Occupational Studies (CDOS) documentation plan and measurable annual school goals for this work.
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Please reach out to our Community Engagement and Postsecondary Planning team for more information.