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Who We Are
Collectively, our network reaches roughly 200 district, charter, independent, and faith-based K-12 schools serving over 75,000 students. Our network and team leaders share our belief in the power of real-world learning to prepare students for the future.
About Us
Schools That Can is a national not-for-profit network of K-12 schools in multiple cities, providing culturally relevant career readiness programming that helps schools meet student needs. We do this through career-readiness programming, and collaborating directly with schools to make this programming accessible to every student. Our mission is for every student to graduate with career skills, credentials, and confidence to pursue fulfilling post-secondary options.
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At STC's inception, our work focused on real-world learning, including the creation of the Real-World Learning Rubric. Created in 2017, this pioneering document served as a guide to help K-12 schools reflect, set goals, and drive improvements around learning that is relevant, authentic, hands-on, and connects students to the real world. Since then, STC has furthered our work in connecting students to the real through through our education to employment (e2e) work.
STC Milestones
2006
STC Launches as a network of cross-sector K-12 schools to share best practices.
2011
Reached 115 schools in STC Network.
2014
Held an event at West Point for education to employment that shifted our focus.
2018
Reached 218 schools in STC Network. Award NSF grant to study STEM in early grades.
2019
Partnered with the Obama Foundation on our Design Challenge, and celebrated our 6th year of collaboration with RFK Human Rights to recognize leaders with the Urban Education Awards.
2020
Launched the pilot of Career Readiness Program for 200 students, and held our 15th annual National Forum.
2021
Grew program to reach 1,700 students in the pandemic, with 90 hours of curriculum.
2022
Grew programs to reach 3,600 students with 125 hours of curriculum. As a result, STC was awarded a contract by Neward DOE to reach 20% of high school students in Newark.
