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Learn and Earn


The object of LEARN AND EARN is to match a student’s career interest with actual job site training. LEARN AND EARN Work Based Program is part of an overall effort to facilitate a student’s transition from school-to-work.

LEARN AND EARN differs from a job placement program in that it has a specific Career and Technical Education curriculum that integrates with a work-based training plan. Additionally, it provides the opportunity for a student to explore, through a placement at a business/industry site, his or her career area of interest. The LEARN AND EARN Program helps students to understand the educational requirements of the job and the reality of the daily duties. Activities are focused to increase the students’ awareness of post-high school education and training opportunities. Such an experience results in students making informed career choices.

Small star LEARN AND EARN Booklet & Forms (PDF 3-2-2011)

Business & Professional Contact Lists:

Small star Business Contacts (Adobe PDF)
Small star Culinary Contacts (Adobe PDF)
Small star Education Contacts (Adobe PDF)
Small star Family & Consumer Science Contacts (Adobe PDF)
Small star Health Contacts (Adobe PDF)
Small star Information Technology Contacts (Adobe PDF)
Small star Trade & Industry Contacts (Adobe PDF)

The Goals of the LEARN AND EARN Program:
  • To help students see the relevance of education to the world of work
  • To enhance the employability of students
  • To meet the needs of local business and industry and to see the needs are continuing to be realized.
The program will use volunteer Washoe County School District Career and Technical Education teachers from the following six main CTE areas: Agriculture, Business and Technology, Family and Consumer Science, Trade and Industry, and Health Science.

Classroom instruction related to the following is taught in all CTE courses:
  • Career Aptitude and Interest Assessment
  • Career and Education Planning
  • General Occupational Skills: (Interpersonal competencies needed to maintain employment, and leadership skills)
  • Employability Skills: (Resume and portfolio development, interviewing skills, attendance and punctuality skills, dependability, courtesy, appearance, phone skills, and group skills)
After students have mastered the list of competencies to the teacher’s satisfaction, they are eligible to participate in either of two options of the program. Option I is 60 hours of job shadowing experience in one or many different environments. Option II is 140 hours of a paid Internship position in the area of their choice.

Parents, Educators, and Business & Industry:
Please send names of companies you would like to see students Shadow or Intern opportunities. This would be names of companies and/or names of contacts within companies.