What we offer
schools 

Schools partner with Portal because they know that students need access to high quality, aligned, and personalized opportunities in high school that propel them to the future of their dreams.

Schools Receive

✦ Support in developing, launching, and refining dual enrollment and career learning programs

✦ Ongoing coaching and professional development from the Portal team

✦ Playbooks, curriculum, and tools that are adapted to the local context

✦ Support cultivating and sustaining industry and employer partnerships

What we offer

Career Connected Learning

Career Connected Learning is best delivered through real world experiences and projects with industry, alongside the training to prepare students for professional experiences. 

We support schools in the design and launch of our three pillar program and curriculum for 9-12th graders, which includes building employer partnerships and experiences.

Dual Enrollment

Dual enrollment is best delivered for all when it is flexible, transferable and personalized. 

We support schools in developing goals and strategy for career-aligned dual enrollment, building multi-year plan with course sequence, scheduling, budget, and staffing plans, and cultivating and managing post-secondary partners.

✦ Why partner with us?

We know that designing, launching, or refining career learning and dual enrollment programs require significant time and resources, so we have taken the heavy lifting over for you. Through partnering with Portal Learning, schools gain access to a range of immersive, experiential, and project-based career-learning options. 

In today’s context of volatility, uncertainty, and “jobs that don’t yet exist,” we know that schools must expand how they support students. First, to empower students to understand their unique values, interests, and goals in a relevant and enjoyable way. Second, to equip students with the skills, mindsets, experiences, and networks that make them employable.

Holistic

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Personalized

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Meaningful

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Holistic ✦ Personalized ✦ Meaningful ✦

✦ Holistic

Combines experiential, social-emotional, and academic learning in realistic projects.

✦ Personalized

High degree of student voice, agency, and autonomy in selecting roles, projects, and pathways.

✦ Meaningful

Relevant topics and critical skill development alongside professional partners.

Here is what our students
and families are saying

88%

of students said career-connected learning added value to their learning experience.

90%

of students said career-connected learning gave them a chance to learn in different and meaningful ways compared to the rest of their school experience.

87%

of students believe the Portal program improved their industry awareness, helped them build a strong plan for college, career, and life readiness, and increased their social capital.

  • “I liked working with a real company. Having a voice and knowing that someone cares for the product you create is surreal. Being able to create decks of information and having deadlines also made me feel like a professional adult with a real career.”

  • "I really appreciated being able to learn about the middle-management jobs. Usually, kids only know about the top careers. Maybe president, or astronaut. But from our mentor, we learned about those middle of the pole jobs, supporting the workforce."

  • "Project consults changed so much for me and I could not be more grateful for them. I made many connections and I learned so much about tech, AI, real world working, managing, and so many different skills. Every time I left from presenting in front of our pro-partners I left with a smile on my face telling my mom how much I enjoyed it."

  • "I liked working with a real company. Having a voice and knowing that someone cares for the product you create is surreal. Being able to create decks of information and having deadlines also made me feel like a professional adult with a real career."