CREEED’s Educator Externship provides educators a weeklong experience at local businesses to enhance classroom education
Since 2023, the CREEED Educator Externship Program has partnered with regional businesses to provide current educators with a paid one-week summer externship. Educator externships offer a transformative professional development opportunity by bridging the gap between the classroom and the workplace. Educators become immersed in the daily operations of the partner businesses, gaining insights into current workforce trends and observing first-hand the 21st century skills students need for success in these fields. Educators then bring this knowledge back to their classrooms, enhancing teaching, building innovative curriculum and projects that connect students to real-world scenarios, and helping students develop skills that will help them both academically and later in their careers.
Externships last one week and will take place during the weeks of June 9th, June 16th and June 23rd.
Get Involved!
Businesses: If your organization or business would like to be part of this innovative program that impacts both educators and students in the El Paso community, sign up here to host an extern by Monday, March 17th.
Educators: If you are an educator who would like the opportunity to participate in an externship, please fill out this application. The application will open on April 1st and must be completed by Monday, April 28th. Educators who are selected to take part in CREEED’s Educator Externship will receive $750 for their time.
To learn more about the Educator Externship program, please contact Nadia Tellez, CREEED Choose to Excel Director at ntellez@creeed.org.