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.

“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 of the article from Neuse News here.

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 article in Forbes.

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 NAF academies looking for powerful work-based learning for their academy students.

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 problems for local businesses, including Novo Nordisk (pictured above). We asked a few students how they felt after the pitch event. Watch the video.

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 is the start of the High-Tech Learning Accelerator. Read the article in EdNC.

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 the moment they learn they’ve passed their final assessment. Watch the video.

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 Pendozers who ran and donated!

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 over 100 NAF academy students this fall. Read the press release.

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 the press release.

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 August 13.

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… all online. This 5-week journey starts today!

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 to earn their District C certification and take the Teamship model back to their students. Learn about the Coaching Institute.

“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 news for District C’s 1200+ (and growing) students!

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 this week. What a privilege it is to play a role in shaping these futures. But our work is not even close to done. Looking forward to the next 1,000!

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