Teens Working: Turning Earning into Learning
A toolkit loaded with activities, Teens Working: Turning Earning into Learning is designed to show young people the connection between what they do at work and what they learn at school.

Everyone's Guide to Successful Project Planning: Tools for Youth
A new resource to guide young people through the many stages of project planning and to tie what young people are learning through projects back to academics.

Career Exploration Guide
Career explorations immerse students in all aspects of a career, as students spend 10-30 hours working with the pros, acquiring new skills, and solving problems. For staff, the guide provides strategies and logistical details in setting up the process. [student and staff versions available]

Employer Recruitment and Orientation Guide
Providing strategies for involving employers in work-based learning, this guide includes the nuts and bolts of recruiting and orienting employers, roles and responsibilities of partners, and a handy glossary of terms.

Integrated Workplace Learning Project
This guide consists of a step-by-step planning tool to help you and your students plan rigorous projects that connect school- and work-based learning. Also included is a tool box of ideas on how to design projects that integrate students' interests, worksite skills and knowledge, and learning objectives.

Job Shadow Guide
A job shadow can help young people make the connection between learning and earning. These guides assist students in getting the most from the three to six hours they spend in the "real world" workplace on a job shadow and guide staff in setting up the process. [student and staff versions available]

Learning in the Community: From A to Z
This quick reference guide introduces the basic concepts and issues associated with community-based learning. While defining current buzz words and acronyms in everyday language, the guide also provides the big picture of successful ways students of all ages can use community resources in their learning.

Learning Site Analysis Form
Designed for use by school staff and employers, this easy-to-use tool can help you identify the learning potential at workplaces and other locations throughout the community.

Survival Skills: A Guide to Making It on Your Own
To become independent and resourceful citizens, students need skills, such as how to register to vote, open a checking account, apply for a loan, and more. This guide not only helps school staff and students identify which skills are critical, but involves community experts in "certifying" students who master individual life skills. [Spanish version available]

Teachers Learning in the Community: A Field Guide
This guide provides a framework for structuring your professional development activities, including job shadows, internships, telementoring, and learning site analyses. It also outlines strategies to ensure that activities are beneficial for students, teachers, employers, schools, and communities.

WORKmatters
Complete school-to-work curriculum
WORKmatters is a series of teacher resources and student activities developed by Public/Private Ventures and the Northwest Regional Educational Lab. This curriculum guides students in identifying their interests, aptitudes, and personal values; helps them understand the world of work and its requirements for success; and assists in developing concrete skills for job searches and survival. Sixty complete lessons cover job-search skills, career exploration, personal values, employer expectations, and much more.

To order WORKmatters, contact Contemporary Books Publishing at www.contemporarybooks.com, call (800) 621-1918, or FAX (800) 998-3103. Pricing: Teacher Resource Books $40 each (5 total), Master Packs of each book $72.50, WORKmatters complete kit $375.

WORKplus
Developing skills for young entry-level workers
WORKplus is designed to encourage young employees to get the most out of their first work experiences, and to help their supervisors work with them effectively. The WORKplus curriculum consists of two parts: Employee Development Workshops (twenty 60-90 minute interactive sessions) and Supervisor Development Workshops (ten 60-minute interactive sessions). A Staff Guide to WORKplus comes with both products. Topics cover Serving the Customer, Working as a Team, Decision-making and Problem-solving on the Job, Becoming a Professional, Working with Young Employees, Coaching in the Workplace, and Enriching the Experience of Work.

To order WORKplus materials, contact Public/Private Ventures at www.ppv.org, or call (215) 557-4495 or (800) 755-4778. Pricing: Employee Development Workshops $75, Supervisor Development Workshops $50, Staff Guide $25, Set of all Three $125.