Collaboration

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Collaboration is "the action of working with someone to produce or create something," according to Dictionary Version 2.1.2 (80.3) from Apple. As anyone who works with the 21st Century Skills could tell you, collaboration is a skill that will be highly important in the lives of all of our students. In order to get students to see collaboration in action, why not actually make it happen!

There are many problems that can arise in the everyday workforce, but often, the skills to help solve these problems are hard to come by. Schools, in turn, are facing issues with obtaining the funding to provide quality education that helps meet the skill set needed for when our students reach the workforce. This is a partnership where all sides can benefit: Companies can receive problem-solving strategies put together by competing classes (competitive bids) while providing funding for the classrooms to provide quality education to prepare students for the world of tomorrow.

The creation of this collaboration is a great way to sustain both education and the growth of industry. Together, schools and local (and non-local) companies can help restore proper funding for education, promote their charity to potential customers, and ensure that students are receiving the skills necessary to help drive the growth of their own business. Schools can foster the partnerships to show how the skills they are learning in schools can be implemented to promote real change as well as receive funding to make sure they can continue to provide quality education to all students.

For more information on how collaboration between schools and industry are beneficial, see these scholarly articles.

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