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Get a jumpstart on your future career

The best way to learn about potential careers and open the door to viable job opportunities is to take advantage of career and service learning opportunities. Improve your leadership and employability skills, develop a network of business professionals and have fun while obtaining industry experience and making a positive impact on your community.

Why participate in Work & Community Based Learning Opportunities?

  • Opportunity to learn more about careers of interest
  • It provides the opportunity to develop technical, academic and employability skills
  • Makes classroom learning more relevant
  • Learn more about yourself
  • Develop and practice academic, technical and employability skills in a chosen career field
  • Earn credit and a paycheck
  • Obtain industry credentials
  • Give back to the community
  • Engage with groups of diverse individuals
  • Build a professional network
  • Expand your resume, career portfolio and/or college scholarship applications
  • You’ll have fun!
Work and Career Based Learning
Youth Apprenticeship

CESA 5 Consortium

CESA 5 Website

Wisconsin's Youth Apprenticeship (YA) program is designed for juniors and seniors to gain paid work experience while taking related instruction in a specific career pathway.  CESA 5 coordinates the Youth Apprenticeship program for 23 area school districts, including nearly 200 students working at over 170 area employers. 

View the introductory Video to find out more about Youth Apprenticeship:

CESA 5 Youth Apprenticeship Video


Program Areas:

Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Architecture & Construction Health Science Hospitality, Lodging & Tourism Finance Information Technology Marketing Manufacturing Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics
 

CESA 5 Youth Apprenticeship Application

This needs to be completed by April for the Fall Semester

 

Employability Skills Certificate Program

Student Assistant

Employability skills are those that apply across a variety of jobs and life contexts. They are also known as key skills, core skills, workplace skills, essential skills, key competencies, necessary skills, and transferable skills. Regardless of what they are called, essentially employability skills are those basic skills necessary for getting, keeping, and doing well on a job. They are generic in nature and cut across jobs, industry types, and occupational levels. In order to be a productive citizen in the world of work, family, or community involvement, mastery of basic employability skills is essential for all students. 

 

The Employability Skills Certificate Program is intended to recognize a student’s mastery of employability skills valued by employers.  Every employment opportunity today requires the application of knowledge and skills in a real world context.  The Employability Skills Program is designed around students attaining skill proficiency in those core employment skills identified by the U.S. Department of Labor Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). 

 

Students will be assessed on the following personal work habits and attitudes:

 

  • Develops positive relationships with others

  • Communicates effectively with others

  • Collaborates with others 

  • Maintains composure under pressure

  • Demonstrates integrity

  • Performs quality work

  • Provides quality goods or service

  • Shows initiative and self-direction

  • Adapts to change

  • Demonstrates safety and security regulations and practices

  • Applies job-related technology, information, and media

 

Students will also be assessed on personal and professional development:

  • Fulfills training or certification requirements for employment

  • Sets personal goals for improvement

 

Work Based Learning
Cambria-Friesland School District 
Work Experience

 

Students may earn credit for work experience if minimal requirements are met.  These requirements are:

 

  1.  Complete a training agreement.

  2. Provide verification that the student is employed.

  3. Periodic check in with School to Work coordinator or designee of the school district.

 

When these requirements are met, students may use a portion of the school day for employment.  Credit will be granted by the number of hours worked but not to exceed 3 credits per year.

 

Training Agreement

 

Service and Leadership Opportunities
FCCLA

(Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America) is an organization under the Family and Consumer Sciences umbrella. Students who choose to be a part of this organization will explore important personal, workplace, and societal issues and employ problem-solving skills to make a difference in their school, their community, and beyond. 

Students who are interested in problem solving, work-based learning, and building interpersonal, business, and industry skills are encouraged to join!

Email Abigail Hofmeister for more Information

Key Club

Key Club members are learning how to lead and stand for what’s right through service and volunteerism. In partnership with our local Kiwanis club, high school students are making a positive impact as they serve others in our school and community.

Email Molly Borman for more Information

FBLA

FBLA is the high school division of Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda, Inc. FBLA helps high school students prepare for careers in business through academic competitions, leadership development, and educational programs.

Want to make sure you have the skills they need to succeed in college and in a career? Join FBLA and develop the leadership skills and business knowledge you  will need to excel in any career.

FBLA helps you  prepare for college and careers through a variety of leadership, community service, and academic activities.

Find out more
 
National Honor Society

Student members reflect theses pillars—scholarship, service, leadership, and character—and they continue demonstrating these pillars within their community throughout their membership.

Email Tracey Hoffmann for more information