ElevateWBL Content Library
ElevateWBL offers a combination of unique guides, checklists, templates and forms to help CTE administrators and educators take their work-based learning and employer partnerships to the next level. These include:
Turnkey WBL kits
ElevateWBL’s work-based learning resource kits have everything educators need to save time and create activities that provide students and employers with a much greater impact. Not only do these kits offer information like evaluation options, virtual activity modifications and step-by-step guides to implementation, they also offer all the checklists, forms, and templates that teachers need to create full and complete activities.
Imagine a Turnkey WBL Kit for site visits, for example, that includes not only a hands-on guide but also offers a checklist for planning the site visit, a template for student permission forms, handouts for employers and students to help them prepare for the visit, reflection questions for students, and even a template for a thank-you letter after the activity is complete. Each kit offers all the materials educators need to quickly and completely set up and manage great WBL activities.
Guides for educators, students, and employers
There are a lot of topics that would be helpful for educators who want to get up to speed quickly on working with employers; students and employers need similar help to get the most out of their experience working with CTE programs. ElevateWBL offers a full suite of resources for all these audiences to help them out. As with all ElevateWBL resources, the focus is on the hands-on and practical to increase engagement and impact.
Sample guides include:
- How to create and manage an effective advisory board (educators)
- How to find partners (educators)
- Retaining and growing partnerships (educators)
- How to find your own internship (students)
- Guide to understanding schools (employers)
- Guide to understanding CTE (employers)
- Hosting an internship (employers)
WBL system design tools
CTE directors at the school and district level need support to design and manage systems that drive employer engagement and effective work-based learning. Guides for these administrators include:
- Setting up a district-wide employer engagement model
- Creating and using partnership agreements
- Developing a work-based learning scope and sequence
- Creating an assessment model for work-based learning
- Supporting educators in building employer relationships
- Guide to creating an online presence for employer engagement
- Implementing WBL in rural areas
- Implementing WBL for students with disabilities
- Preparing administrators to engage employers
- Engaging employers outside the classroom\
- Understanding employer ROI in WBL
Each of these guides is a practical resource designed to help you understand and build systems and strategies that make a real impact on district and school operations, leading to a real increase in educator, student, and employer outcomes.
Forms and checklists
Creating forms can take a long time and it can take some trial and error before you have them exactly right. ElevateWBL offers premade and customizable forms for every purpose, including advisory boards, work-based learning activities, and related functions like texts of emails for employer outreach. These forms can be branded or downloaded as text files so they can be modified and laid out in the school’s template. The service also offers checklists to help educators and administrators do effective planning and review quality criteria for various functions.
Editorial Calendar
ElevateWBL launches August 2025 with a great set of initial resources and will continue to publish new materials through the rest of the year. Take a look at our publishing schedule below.
Educator resources
Available at launch (August 2025):
- The Advisory Board Advantage – complete book
- How to find partners
- Finding your own internship: A guide for students
- Turnkey WBL: Guest speaker toolkit
- Turnkey WBL: Informational Interview Toolkit
- Turnkey WBL: Site visit toolkit
- Turnkey WBL: Job shadow toolkit
- Turnkey WBL: Mock interview toolkit
- Turnkey WBL: Career fair toolkit Launch
- Turnkey WBL: Internship toolkit Launch
Fall semester, 2025
- Retaining and growing partnerships
- Tracking work-based learning data
- Turnkey WBL: School-based enterprise toolkit
- Turnkey WBL: Industry project toolkit
- Turnkey WBL: Service learning toolkit
- Turnkey WBL: Teacher externship toolkit
Spring semester, 2026
- What do you bring to the table? Cataloging assets
- Guide to understanding schools (for employers)
- Guide to understanding CTE (for employers)
- Hosting an internship (for employers)
Administrator resources
Available at launch (August 2025)
- Creating and using partnership agreements
- Setting up a district-wide employer engagement model
- Guide to virtual work-based learning
- WBL for students with disabilities
- WBL in rural areas
Fall semester, 2025
- Creating an assessment model for work-based learning
- Developing a work-based learning scope and sequence
- Intake and management – employer partners
Spring semester, 2026
- Advisory board quality standards
- Guide to creating an online presence for employer engagement
- Partnership quality standards
- Understanding employer ROI in WBL
- Model: The Partnership Pyramid
- Preparing administrators to engage employers