Polk County Public Schools, Students
The Mission of Workforce Education is to educate students to be responsible, productive, competent contributors to the workforce.
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Career academies are small, personalized learning communities within a high school. Students enter the academy through a voluntary process; they must apply and be accepted with parental knowledge and support.
A career academy involves teachers from different subjects working together as a team.
Staff teams, who often share common planning time, work together to implement the key features of the academy and provide students with career training. Students may be grouped together for several periods every day with a core group of teachers. This promotes a family-like atmosphere and results in close student-teacher ties.
A career academy includes the following essential elements:
By design, these three central elements of a career academy lead to a school that is rigorous and relevant.
For more information visit the Career Academies website at www.PolkAcademies.com .
If you plan to pursue a GED, there are two testing sites in Polk County that are directly associated with Polk County Schools. In Lakeland, the West Area Adult School at 604 South Central Avenue can help you, while the East Area Adult School at 300 East Bridgers Avenue in Auburndale serves Auburndale/ Winter Haven/Haines City GED applicants.
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The purpose of the Farm Worker Jobs and Education Program is to assist migrant and seasonal farm workers that want to leave agriculture, or stabilize farmworkers who choose to stay in farmwork. The goal is to improve the lifestyle for migrant and seasonal farmworkers requesting assistance.
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The purpose of Career Pathways is to prepare students to enter and succeed in a career.