INDIANA – Ready Schools helps align school districts to the education and workforce needs of Indiana Uplands employers and prepares students for high-opportunity jobs and careers.
Regional Opportunity Initiatives (ROI) has selected:
For participation in the fourth cohort of ROI’s Ready Schools initiative.
The Ready Schools development grant provides an opportunity for the school corporation to involve their community in an immersive design thinking process throughout the 2023-24 school year.
The Ready Schools initiative is a framework to support school districts in aligning K-12 curricular and programmatic offerings to educational and workforce needs within the Indiana Uplands, an 11-county region that encompasses Brown, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe, Orange, Owen, and Washington counties.
Since 2017, ROI has awarded Ready Schools development and implementation grants to 18 regional school districts, impacting 85 schools and more than 35,077 K-12 students.
“Throughout the Ready Schools process, these school districts have embraced the important role they must play in regional economic prosperity,” said ROI President and CEO Tina Peterson. “This engagement will help schools carefully develop strategies to equip students from pre-K through graduation with the skills necessary to thrive in regionally relevant careers and 21st-century jobs.”
Cohort IV school districts will begin the first phase of the Ready Schools process in late August. A District Readiness Coordinator will guide locally developed advisory and design teams through the 10-month design thinking process. An ROI coach will work alongside the District Readiness Coordinator through the Discovery, Synthesis, Ideation, and Refinement phases.
