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Inspire Madison Region is an add-on to Career Cruising that offers tools for educators to engage students in thinking about their careers, find relevance in what they are learning in the classroom and increase students’ career readiness.

This talent-development platform helps students and career-seekers meet their future career goals by bridging the gap between school and the work world. Inspire Madison Region provides a central hub in which area students and educators can actively interact with area employers and career coaches with the goal of:

  • Helping students find relevance in what they are learning in the classroom
  • Engaging students early in thinking about their careers
  • Making a positive impact our region’s career readiness
How does the program work?

Inspire Madison Region is a whole-community approach to career-readiness that enhances the academic and career planning tools available to school districts utilizing Career Cruising for their ACP platform. The system provides a customized information sharing and resource gathering environment where educators and their students can easily:

  • Learn about area companies that offer jobs and careers in their area of interest
  • Participate in career discussions with an online mentor/career coach from that company
  • Further interact with that company by participating in other Real-world Experiences, such as job-shadowing, internships, company tours, and summer employment

How can educators take part?

  • Make sure your school is licensed with Career Cruising. If you or your school are interested in participating in Inspire Madison Region, please contact us.
  • Access the Inspire Madison Region features and lesson plans through your Career Cruising CAMS account. Help students learn about local businesses in the career clusters of they are interested in, connect with experiential learning opportunities and get advice from local online career coach mentors. Contact us at acrabb@madisonregion.org for more information.

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Best Practices for Handling ELA Requests

Best Practices for Handling Experiential Learning Activity Requests  One of the great things about having a single system where students and educators can find experiential learning activities (ELAs) is the efficiency with which connections can be made with employers. Currently, nearly 600 businesses and organizations are offering a combined 3,000+ ELAs to the students and […]

Increase How Many Students Save Your Company Profile

Here are some basic tips on what you can do to increase your company’s visibility and the likelihood that a student will find your company profile and save it: 1. Add more of your careers to your company/program profile. The more careers your company is associated with in Career Cruising, the more easy it will […]

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Inspire Madison Region brings together businesses, schools, community organizations and volunteers to create a vibrant workforce in the Greater Madison Region. Communities in Dane, Columbia, Dodge, Green, Iowa, Jefferson and Sauk Counties have the opportunity to build bridges between employers and secondary and post-secondary schools across the … Join Now and Get Involved!

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