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For Business/Adopters: How to Adopt-a-School Instructions
In reviewing the Health Careers Adopt-a-School Curriculum, an educator with 46 years of experience said:
The key is to get people involved from the community, if you want it to be used effectively. Otherwise, it will be just another interesting document that sits on the bookshelf in someone's office.
The curriculum gives businesses, organizations and health professionals an opportunity to be that key in their own communities -- to be role models and heroes to students, to identify and inspire students who could one day be their employees or health care providers.
The curriculum comprises 21 programs, three each in seven subject areas. The programs may be taught in combination or independent of one another. Each program contains a section, What are the activities of Business/Adopters?, which describes the roles and responsibilities of participating businesses, organizations and health professionals.
There are two ways for businesses to adopt-a-school and help it implement the curriculum:
- Contact school and initiate a program. Read through the programs in a subject area of interest to you. If you find one in which you would like to participate, contact your local school district, middle or high school, or community college and let them know of your interest.
- Respond to a school contact. Educators working with the curriculum often seek a business, organization or health professional in their community to help with one or more programs. You may be the one they call.
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