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Career-pathway programs expand: students help build a shed, run a student store and join hands-on career events
Summary
District staff reported a community-build construction project at Kennedy Elementary that engaged students and contractor partners, an eighth-grade career day with more than 20 volunteers and a new student-run store, the Scarlet Den, funded by Future Ready CTE and Educare grants.
Mankato Public School District presented a summer update June 16 on recent career-pathway initiatives that brought students into hands-on construction, industry mentoring and a student-run retail operation.
Under the direction of the district’s director of teaching and learning, staffers Sherry Blasey and Caleb Watson described three recent projects as examples of expanding authentic career experience for students.
The largest item was a “community build” at Kennedy Elementary in which students helped construct a 22-by-34-foot shed on district property. Blasey said the project arose from district advisory conversations and a desire to bring work-based learning into school because Department of Labor rules generally…
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