There are over 500,000 students enrolled in the Connecticut public school system. Each one of them is deserving of an education that positions them for success.
Leveraging both direct programming and policy advocacy, ReadyCT works to ensure every student can thrive in ways that keep pace with the modern world.
- Regarding programming, ReadyCT, embeds team members in schools to design and deliver work-based learning opportunities for students so that classroom instruction is made immediately relevant to career possibilities. Jump To Video: Career-Connected Opportunities!
- Regarding policy, ReadyCT works in collaboration with a range of stakeholders — including educators and business partners — to advance legislation that amplifies Connecticut’s public school system.
In all events, the focus is on providing opportunity and access to low-income and minority students whose academic performance traditionally trails their more affluent peers.
The Student, Employer, and Educator Experience
Career-connected learning works best when designed in collaboration with business, civic and education leaders.
Cross-sector input serves to enhance and expand opportunities for students. For example, what academic pathways are needed to address workforce needs? What skills do students need to succeed in college, career and life? Our partners inform these answers.
Career-Connected Learning
Your partnership in this work is critical.
As a practical matter, most high school students have a minimal understanding of what’s available to them following high school graduation. That list is more than just college or workforce entry. It includes credentialing, apprenticeship, military service, and on-the-job training. Moreover, students often lack insight into the wide array of options within any given business sector in Connecticut’s high-growth, high-demand industries (healthcare, information technology, insurance and financial services, and manufacturing).
By supporting ReadyCT — with a gift of treasure or time — you become part of the constellation needed to help students build their skills, identity, and social capital. Your support also complements, in the most tangible ways, the coursework offered to students by Connecticut teachers. Even though our educators are among in the best in the nation, they cannot bridge the transition from classroom to career by themselves.
Partnering with ReadyCT is an investment in students who will one day soon join the Connecticut workforce and contribute to growing the state’s economy.
Let’s work together to make them – and our state – ready.
Our Mission
ReadyCT designs and delivers dynamic learning experiences that inspire and equip Connecticut students to achieve career success by connecting schools, businesses, and communities—especially where it’s needed most.
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