Career pathways & academies

Volunteer activities and academically focused service learning modules can add real world, "learn by doing" experience and richness to career pathway and academy programs at your school, while at the same time allowing students to serve the community.
 
Below are some curriculum resources that may provide you with ideas about how to tie service learning into your career pathway or academy programs. Tailor these ideas and the volunteer activities to the competencies required for target jobs, skill standards, certifications, or licensing requirements outlined in your career pathway program. ConnectEd has more information about developing curriculum for pathways.
 
Environmental sciences pathway ("green" careers)
  • Volunteer opportunities related to the environment from SFUSD's VolunteerMatch website.

     

  • Curricula from San Francisco's Environmental Service Learning Initiative (ESLI). [Coming soon]

     

  • Curricula from Youth Service America (YSA).

     

  • Lesson plans geared toward The LEAGUE's events and other days of service. Look at Earth Day as well as the Environment area under Wild Card.
Health & medicine academy;  biotechnology pathway
Information technology academy
 
Teacher academy

 
Engineering academy (resources coming soon)
 
 
Finance academy (resources coming soon)
 
 
 
Hospitality & tourism academy (resources coming soon)