ImBlaze Internship Coordinators upload and manage the opportunities in ImBlaze. Students can suggest new opportunities that Internship Coordinators can review and approve or deny.

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Students can log in with either the website at app.imblaze.org or by searching the iOS or Android app store. Teachers / Advisors can log in at app.imblaze.org Internship Coordinators can log in at app.imblaze.org Mentors get an email daily in their inbox with a link to verify student attendance.

ImBlaze is built upon Salesforce - an industry standard platform for hosting data trusted by fortune 500 companies, high education and health care sectors. Salesforce utilizes a minimum of 128 bit rest encryption and browsers must be a minimum of TLS 1.1 compliant.

ImBlaze does not collect or record any information about student grades. Required data includes: name email teacher internship coordinator internships Optional data includes: photo (student or otherwise) student phone student id student LinkedIn profile grade gender internships (current and past) internship requests internship wishlist attendance time logs

Schools have adapted ImBlaze to track shadow days, on-site internships, even attendance at community college classes.

This typically depends a good deal on if your school has an existing dataset of potential internships or not and the level of support you need in redesigning your school to support internships. Below is a general timeline. https://static.wixstatic.com/media/undefined

Building trust with students is important. Also, encouraging students to suggest sites is another way to gain insight on their interests. Note that students have compelling networks of professionals around them, so the key is to help them understand how to tap into that network. Lastly, ImBlaze enables teachers and internship coordinators to see what opportunities students add to their wishlist. Providing further insight into student interest. Note THIS WORKFLOW (javascript:void(0))for running an high quality internship program.

Talk to us. Reach out at help@imblaze.org and we can set up a demo and find out the pricing structure that is best for your school.

Ahh, this is a really important question. Big Picture Learning has been helping schools develop student-centered internship programs for almost 25 year. Reach out and we can connect you with the coaching resources you need. You can also visit Big Picture Learning here.(http://www.bigpicture.org) One note: Schools are a compelling hub for a professional community. School's have multitudes of parents who cycle through the school and all of those parents have communities around them to link into the school's internship program. They key is having a database to organize all of those internship "leads". That is where ImBlaze can help!

Two compelling resources can help: Big Picture Learning can provide coaching services for your school to change practice to support an internship program. Check out Learning Big Picture.(https://www.bigpicture.org/apps/pages/lbp).. our online professional development resource.

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https://static.wixstatic.com/media/undefined Learning Big Picture is an online professional development tool to bring just-in-time training and PD to your team, to facilitate your journey to student internships and personalized learning. Big Picture Learning has refined tools and structures for schools to implement student-centered learning for over twenty years. We’ve streamlined the process of training educators and sharing best practices to bring dynamic online learning experiences to your school’s teachers and administrators. Learning Big Picture combines videos, classroom resources, research, and best practices from the field to create powerful learning for teachers. Each course has embedded opportunities for authentic application of these tools and resources, so you can get to work right away on moving your program toward stronger student engagement through real world learning. Courses also have that personal touch, with opportunities to learn from colleagues from across the country, with resource exchanges, virtual meetings, video shares and collaborative cohort models. Users are also eligible for badging and certification options, to represent their learning and their progress. Learning Big Picture also comes with comprehensive analytics for school and district leaders so you can get real-time information on how your team is utilizing professional development resources. If you are building an internship program from the ground up, or if you’re looking to improve the rigor, relevance or authenticity of your current internship program, Learning Big Picture will provide comprehensive online professional development support and coaching, every step of the way!

There are two key roles that will help with a successful internship program: Internship Coordinator: This can be a CTE teacher, an assistant principal or a variety of other folks around the school. The role involved curating and cultivating connections with mentors in the community so as to develop a dataset of "potential" internships. Once in ImBlaze, students can then request to pursue those sites. The Internship Coorinator can also assist with internship readiness instruction and managing compliance documentation. Teacher/Advisor: This can be an Advisor or a CTE Teacher. The role involves supporting a student through their interest exploration, and pursuit of internships. Once a student lands an internship, this role also supports the development of internship work as well as verfifies student attendance in ImBlaze.

Yes. Currently we do not have a regional or district level functionality so that schools can own relationships with mentors but also make that ownership known to all schools within that community. So groups of schools using ImBlaze develop naming conventions to indicate what school owns what potential internship.