Publications


Engaging Workplace Partners

Engaging Workplace Partners: An Engagement Specialist's Quick Guide
(PDF 216 kb) New Ways to Work: Updated 2005
Engaging workplace partners is a critical part of building a successful youth-serving initiative and making real connections for youth. Engagement Specialists - those charged with the task of recruiting and engaging employers and other workplace partners in the work of the intermediary - have many tools to work with and people on the Intermediary team to help make it happen. This Quick Guide describes four easy steps to the successful engagement of employers, labor, government, community organizations and others to support intermediary priorities.

Workplace Partner Guide to the Work-Based Learning Plan and Evaluation Tool (PDF 236 kb)
New Ways to Work, Excerpt from the Kansas City Work-Based Learning Toolkit: 2003
The Work-Based Learning Plan and Evaluation tool is the document used in the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools to plan and measure student learning in the workplace. Students enrolled in internships or participating in service learning projects use this as a guide in connecting their learning at work to their learning at school. This Workplace Partner Guide to the Work-Based Learning Plan provides instructions for workplace partners on how to help students involved in internships or service learning projects write learning objectives. It also provides guidance on how to evaluate student performance based on those objectives.