In partnership with Edgewood City Schools, Fairfield City Schools,
Lakota Local, Middletown City, Monroe Local, New Miami Local, Northwest
Local, Ross Local and Talawanda City Schools, the Career Based Intervention
(CBI) program is a career-technical program designed for students in
Grades 7-12 who are eligible based on academic and/or economic need.
The CBI program is designed to help students improve academic achievement,
keep students on track to graduate from high school, develop employability
skills, set goals and implement a career plan, and participate in a
career pathway in preparing for postsecondary education and future
careers.
The CBI program provides a combination of educational, service and/or
work-based learning opportunities. Designed to enhance student success,
work-based learning can be paid or non paid and can be single or multiple
periods in length depending on the age of the student.
CBI Work Based Learning AND CBI Career
Connections Models
- Increase student’s opportunity for transition to next grade level
- Earlier introduction to business ethics and employability concepts
- Instructor mentoring to increase organization and study skills
- Effective student/teacher ratios
- Increased contact with parents and teachers
Benefits to the Student
- Develop better understanding of real-life issues.
- Learn academics in context
- Become more goal-oriented
- Learn to use problem-solving skills
- Practice work ethic and understand concept of work
- Develop a portfolio of skills for the future
- Improved attendance and better grades
- Earn income while you learn in school and on the job
- Become better prepared for future employment and promotion
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- Banking and Credit
- Entrepreneurship
- Interviewing
- Managing Your Money
- Professional Communication Skills
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- Researching Careers
- Taxes and Social Security
- Technology in the Workplace
- Workplace Ethics
- Workplace Health and Safety
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Admission Requirements
- Scores below 25th percentile on standardized achievement or aptitude
test
- Has a current secondary school GPA below a 2.0 on a 4.0 scale and/or
math, reading or writing deficiencies below grade level.
- Middle School Only: Student is in jeopardy of failing one or more
academic subjects or grade level.
- Qualifies per economic conditions
- Non-passage of current required State Tests
Students receive credits in work-based learning as well as their academic
classes from the associate school. Credits for the number of hours
worked are determined by each local school district.
CBI Work Based Learning Opportunities
All work based learning students will be given the opportunity to
work at businesses in the community in a planned, managed partnership.
The student experience will be appropriate for the needs of the student
and their ability to participate. All jobs meet Minor Labor Law Standards.
Businesses participate to make learning real, to relate lessons to
life, and to focus classroom learning on meaningful outcomes. |
