City Summer Internship
Demystifying Boston’s skyline for Boston’s next generation of women leaders in the workplace.
Skills for Success
Students practice self-presentation and communication skills in professional workplace setting.
Career Knowledge
Worksite partners ignite a sense of purpose with authentic learning.
Dreams and Plans
Students meet professionals who share and inspire their career pathways.
What is My Learning Zone?
Before an apprenticeship, we build students’ self-awareness with a variety of learning activities to help them understand their strengths, learning styles, interests and skills and how they can utilize their traits during their apprenticeships. This helps students overcome their nervousness and fear of “messing up.” The “Comfort Zone Model” describes three zones that are...
Introducing our Intern, Rebekah Lyon, College for Social Innovation
As AL expands to more schools and serves more students, interns play a crucial role in supporting program operations with teaching, administrative tasks and special projects. Apprentice Learning has been generously supported by volunteers from Boston University, Northeastern University and the College for Social Innovation, a semester-long internships for college students. Rebekah has...
APPLY NOW! City Summer Internship 2019
Apprentice Learning’s City Summer is a program for young women entering ninth grade that uses workplace experiences to develop mindsets for future success and improves engagement in the classroom by making concrete connections between personal success and career achievement. COMPLETE THIS ONLINE APPLICATION FORM TO APPLY. Using the rich array of businesses and organizations...
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For as little as $60, you can provide MBTA transportation so a young person can travel to their summer job.
Host Students at Your Workplace
Ignite purpose with career discovery at your workplace.
We partner with local business to create seminal experiences that give purpose to the present, but more importantly, to a young person’s future. That purpose—the thing that motivates students and moves lives forward can be found in workplaces across our city.
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Program Manager
Helen Russell is the Founder and Executive Director of Apprentice Learning. Over the past 30 years, Russell has advocated for connecting students and schools to their communities using hands-on learning experiences. She spent over a decade in the Boston Public Schools (BPS) in external affairs, program development and fundraising at Boston Arts Academy and the Mission Hill School. Prior to working with BPS she was an instructor and program director for Thompson Island Outward Bound and is a senior trainer at Project Adventure. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Boston College and a Master’s in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. | 
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