Workforce Incubator builds industry/education coalitions that prepare students in grades 9-16 for 21st Century careers.

Focusing on high-impact, high-demand, high-skill career fields, Workforce Incubator helps bring greater industry relevance to student learning experiences.  It builds upon a number of models for career-relevant learning that were pioneered by the Gates Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, and others.  Specific goals are:

• Prepare students for success in the global economy, such that their careers provide the opportunity for personal satisfaction and financial well-being, supported by a passion for lifelong learning.
• Equip teachers to deliver increasingly career-relevant learning experiences to students, assisted by the commitment of expertise and resources by industry partners.
• Meet required education standards with greater ease through enriched curricula and powerful learning modes afforded by industry partnerships.
• Develop a highly-skilled workforce to satisfy increasingly sophisticated industry functions and heightened requirements for innovation and productivity.

Workforce Incubator convenes and facilitates a Coalition of leaders in industry and education who choose to work together to amplify career relevance for high school and post-secondary school students.