Peers: Interns have an opportunity to meet their cohort peers in biweekly cohort meetings for all X3 interns who attend their school. School coordinators check-in with interns on their internship experience and troubleshoot challenges as they emerge. School Coordinators: Interns communicate periodically with school coordinators, representatives from the interns’ high schools that serve as the school’s liaison to the X3 Internship Program and the employers. Pre-COVID, there was one staff member for every 20 interns, and FFE is exploring the appropriate ratio in a virtual setting. Program staff also carry out a Midpoint Site Visit six weeks into the internship, at which point interns provide a guided tour of their workspace and team, and program staff mediate a performance evaluation discussion with the mentor and intern. Program Staff: Interns connect in cohorts with X3 program staff formally every two weeks, with the flexibility to reach out whenever problems arise.
Mentors also carry out performance evaluations, both six weeks into the internship and once it’s completed, discussing the evaluations with the interns and X3 staff together. This entails at least one formal check-in each week, and mentors typically check in with their interns on a daily basis as well. Mentors work at the organizations at which students intern, overseeing the internship directly and tracking the intern’s progress. Mentors: Interns interact regularly with their mentors, starting at orientation. These internships are sometimes called “consultancies” because the interns are essentially consultants for the employer. During the Exhibition of Learning stage, each intern presents their experience and next steps to their mentors, X3 staff, and school staff, and receives feedback.įFE has adapted to the COVID-induced difficulties of creating virtual internship experiences by placing some students in more traditional 1:1 experiences while placing the bulk of interns in group internships in in-person, virtual, or hybrid experiences designed in partnership with an employer and the partner high school. The program also includes a Midpoint Site Visit, in which interns connect with X3 Program Staff and receive a guided tour of their workplace as well as a performance review with their mentor. Every two weeks, internship cohorts meet during school hours to strengthen peer relationships, reflect on their internship, and pursue soft skills development together. The X3 Internship Program provides interns with structured opportunities to reflect on their experiences throughout. Through the course of the internship, the intern is expected to connect with his/her mentor through daily check-ins and formal weekly meetings. During week eight of their experience, interns attend a Workforce Learning Retreat during which they get oriented to the internship program and connect with peers.
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Students in the X3 internship program are matched with a mentor who is a professional from the partner employer site hosting the internship. Interns work 12-hour weeks and receive a stipend roughly equivalent to $10 per hour, distributed monthly.
The program typically runs three 13-week internship sessions per year. The X3 (E x plore, E x perience, E x pand) Internship Program is offered through partner schools, with most interns coming from the Leadership Schools Network, and is designed to help students build a reservoir of both personal and professional relationships that they can mobilize over time. As the Leadership Schools Network developed, FFE’s work expanded to two additional areas of importance: (a) supporting schools and systems to succeed through policy change and (b) its X3 Internship Program, geared towards connecting students to industry mentorship.
Future Focused Education started with the launch of its Leadership Schools Network, a network of industry-focused charter schools in Albuquerque, to re-engage students who have been underserved or not served by the traditional school system.
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