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District C partner SparkNC launched its Spark Labs to provide students with a space to pursue high-tech learning opportunities. District C’s Spark Teamship program is one of the many units

We are excited to see our growing impact as we jump from 6 Summer Career Accelerators in 2022 to running 19 in 2023. Read more here about the first program

For the first time, a District C Certified Coach guided students through an intercultural problem-solving experience. Read more here about how UNC Wilmington ran a collaborative Teamship program with students

We feel honored to surpass this big milestone! Let’s celebrate all of our incredible Teamship alumni who have invested time and energy to solve real problems for real businesses in

Mercedes, a student in Vance County Schools, and Briana, a Senior Engineer at Dell, share their experience working together in the Spark Teamship program. Watch the inspiring video here.

Karen Cho, Program Manager, shared how technology is rapidly changing the way we need to prepare the next generation of talent for modern work. Read more in the LinkedIn post

At the Virginia Leads Innovation Network (VaLIN) meeting in Richmond, District C Co-Founders connected with school divisions across the state about how we can better prepare the next generation of

After doing the Teamship program multiple times, a student named Sage from GRACE Christian School decided to post about her experience on LinkedIn (without prompting from her coach!) Read here.

We are thrilled to welcome our Partnerships Board members who will be helping us connect students with more incredible mentors through their business partner recruitment efforts! See the full list

At our Community Event, we heard from Wake County students, coaches, and the CTE Director about their experiences with District C. Watch the recording here.

Triangle Business Journal recently featured District C’s approach to preparing the next generation of diverse talent, and how businesses across the Triangle can get involved. Read the article here.

District C’s Dan Gonzalez joined host Mike Palmer and the Trending in Education podcast for a conversation about preparing young people for the future of work. Listen here.

We’re grateful for Cheyenne McNeill from EdNC, who dug into the Teamship model this summer by observing programs in Johnston and Wake Counties. Read her article here.

As a panelist at the NC Chamber conference, District C’s Anne Jones joined education and workforce leaders to discuss alignment between education and workforce needs. Read the EdNC article here

“…North Carolina-based District C… [is] fueling the talent pipeline for our state’s employers.” Read the full article here.

“The folks from the front office of the Down East Wood Ducks, Kinston’s minor league baseball team, got the pitch they were looking for from LCPS students…” Read the rest

SparkNC will provide a learning pathway to prepare NC students for high tech jobs. Through District C’s Teamship, these students will solve real problems for tech businesses. Read the full

District C led a workshop on work-based learning at the 2022 NAF Next conference in Dallas. We’re honored to be partnered with NAF to provide Teamship as an option for

As part of NC’s Summer Career Accelerator initiative, we partnered with Johnston County Public Schools to offer a Teamship program for 20 students. Over two weeks, teams of students solved

Students and educators from across NC convened in Wilmington to design new modes of learning to prepare next gen talent for high-tech jobs. District C facilitated the design sprint. This

If you love teachers as much as we do, this video is for you. These educators have spent over 50 hours training to be District C certified coaches. This is

As title sponsor of the 2021 City of Oaks Marathon, Pendo ran for District C, supporting our mission to prepare the next generation of diverse talent. Thanks to all the

NAF, a national leader in career preparation for high school students, and District C have partnered to train and certify three NAF teachers to adopt District C’s Teamship model for

NCSSM Teamship Fellows will bring Teamship, an innovative team-based internship experience, to schools across NC, and annual showcase events will feature rising talent from every corner of the state. Read

We are thrilled to partner with Ablr to launch AblrWorks Teamship, a new Teamship experience for students with and without disabilities. Our first program concludes with a pitch event on

Through a partnership between the City of Raleigh and District C, 27 Summer Youth Employment interns have teamed up to solve real problems for 8 different Raleigh businesses and organizations…

30 exceptional educators from 23 schools and organizations in 6 states and across 4 time zones… this is District C’s newest cohort of Coaching Fellows, launched today. All are training

“I like to call it a hidden gem at DA,” says student Emily Gao, referring to Durham Academy’s semester-long Teamship course. Watch the video.

93% of District C business partners report that they are more likely to hire a student for an internship or job if that student has had a Teamship experience. Good

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has launched a full-year Teamship course. High school students from different CHCCS schools team up to solve real problems for local businesses. Read more.

Buncombe County Schools wrote about District C’s impact on students in western NC. Read more.

That moment when the first-ever District C student walked through the door back in February of 2017 is one we’ll never forget, even as we celebrate reaching our 1,000th student

Writing for EdNC, District C alumna Ana Ratanaphruks makes the case for statewide adoption! Read Ana’s article.

“District C Cape Fear got started over the summer. It is the first regional partnership of District C, a Raleigh-based nonprofit, with Cape Fear Collective serving as the local partner.”

Thank you Wake County Economic Development for sharing this story about how District C connected Anya Warren with her new employer, Natrx. Read the article.

The Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce has signed on as a District C regional partner. We are honored and excited to support regional efforts to develop a diverse and prepared

We were honored to facilitate the “Activation Labs” portion of this year’s DEI conference hosted by the Raleigh Chamber. The Labs featured 600 participants and dozens of important small group

Our partners in the Cape Fear region recently completed their first Teamship program. 13 high school students solved problems for Live Oak Bank and the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority.

District C will provide its work-integrated learning experience as a component of Boost, a new career development program offered by Kaplan. Other partners include Google and the Myers-Briggs Company.

“Program leaders from Innovate Carolina, the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship and The Entrepreneurship Center at Kenan-Flagler Business School (KFBS) pulled together – and then partnered with District C – to

The Institute for Advanced Learning & Research, a catalyst for economic development in southern Virginia, is District C’s newest regional partner. We are thrilled to team up with IALR to

“I initially wanted answers given to me but I learned I can think for myself and lead.” Machaela Murrell reflecting on her Teamship experience as a panelist at our session

The UNC Entrepreneurial Consulting Internship, supported by District C, is a unique internship experience for 40 rising college seniors and MBA students from the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship and Kenan-Flagler

District C and Cape Fear Collective announce a regional partnership to strengthen the early talent pipeline in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina. District C Cape Fear will become

Education Dive, a national education publication, recently featured District C’s work. Read the article.

Anne and Dan talk with Meaghan Lewis from the Cape Fear Collective about working together to prepare the next generation of talent in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina.

“A new elective course will be available for the 2020-2021 school year at Chapel Hill, Carrboro and East Chapel Hill High Schools, but teams of students are already part of

Grey Mangum and Mackie Hayman, District C-certified teachers from Sanderson & Heritage High Schools, launch a first-of-its-kind cross-school District C course. 8 teams of 32 students will solve problems for

Through this grant, and in partnership with the City of Raleigh, District C will work to empower every public high school in Raleigh to adopt Teamship. Thank you City of

District C’s newest Coaching Fellows are educators from all over NC, including Rowan County, Warren County, Edgecombe County, and the Cape Fear region. Through the District C Coaching Institute, these

“Their approach is straightforward: prepare students for doing real work by giving them more opportunities to do real work.” Read the article.

National education thought leader Tom Vander Ark wrote about the Future of Work on Forbes.com. District C student Yonas Kemal was a featured voice. Read the article.

District C and two of our students (Yonas Kemal and Manuhe Abebe) made the trip to UPenn for an inspiring conversation about the future of work and education reform. Thanks

Over the course of one intensive week in June, 16 students from 4 high schools (Enloe, Cary HS, Broughton, and Ravenscroft) worked in teams called “Peace Squads” to solve real

The Center on Reinventing Public Education released a report on education models for a rapidly changing economy. We are thrilled to be included as one of 32 exemplar models for

Dan joined Leslie Boney, Director of the Institute for Emerging Issues at NC State, for a conversation about preparing the next generation of talent. Listen to the podcast.

Ready Nation, a group of business executives who promote solutions to prepare students for modern work, recently profiled our program with the help of District C student Anthony Luzzi, pictured

NCSSM students recently partnered with John Samuel and team to tackle a real problem for LCI Tech. John wrote about his experience from the seat of a District C business

NCSSM teacher and District C Coaching Fellow Chad Keister recently implemented a District C experience with his economics students at NCSSM. Read the article.

Thanks to Cari Keller and her Intro to Entrepreneurship class at NC State for inviting us in to facilitate a workshop on building productive teams.

Christopher Gergen, founding partner at HQ Raleigh and CEO of Forward Cities — a leader in diverse, equitable, and inclusive economic development — shares his thoughts on the District C

Gabe Gonzalez, Program Manager at NC State’s Entrepreneurship Clinic, talks about the emerging talent pipeline we are building together. Watch the video.

Anne joins Shantel Khleif, Imagine More podcast host, for a conversation about preparing 3-point players for a 3-point economy.

“My confidence definitely… I think it grew by like one thousand percent with District C.” This is the story of Jordan Christmas, senior at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School, and

50 rising stars from organizations and companies in Raleigh joined District C for a presentation and workshop on disruptive education models. Thanks to William Peace University for hosting us!

UNC student entrepreneurs, local professionals, and high school students joined Anne for two workshops at UNC’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, hosted by Innovate Carolina at the 1789 innovation space on Franklin

This past summer, we kicked off our first-ever District C Coaching Institute. We started by inviting our Coaching Fellows to actually do the Teamship experience as students. This led to

We continue to focus almost exclusively on developing 2-point skills in a labor market that requires 3-point range. Something needs to change. Read the article from District C.

“…it’s on us as educators to make sure we are preparing the next generation for their team-based futures. We have a lot of work to do.” Read the article from

Liz Bell, researcher and reporter for Education NC, spent time with our students to learn about the District C experience. Read the article.