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Who We Are
Collectively, our network has reached 220 K-12 “schools that can” serving over 75,000 students since our founding in 2005 and more than 40 middle and high schools currently actively engaged with our career readiness curriculum. STC is in the forefront of addressing some of the most intransigent challenges in public education.
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 our award-winning 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 world through our education to employment (e2e) work as well as addressing significant challenges currently in public education including closing the post-pandemic literacy and numeracy gap, supporting students who are English language learners, and student engagement in the learning process.
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 10th National Forum in NYC with speakers including Angela Duckworth, Nancy Cantor, Senator Gillibrand, Geoffrey Canada.
2013
Held our 9th national Forum in Newark honoring Cory Booker.
2018
Reached 218 schools in STC Network. Awarded NSF grant to study STEM methodologies in early grades. Held our national Forum in Pittsburgh honoring Bill Demchak, CEO, PNC Financial and actor Billy Porter.
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 RFK Education Awards. Held our national Forum in Chicago honoring John Rogers, CEO.
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. Held our first virtual Forum
2022
Grew programs to reach 3,600 students with 125 hours of curriculum. As a result, STC was awarded a contract by Newark DOE to reach 20% of high school students in Newark.
2024
In partnership with South Bronx Community Charter School, Schools That Can was recognized by the U.S. Board of Education in July, 2024 as a finalist-winner of the prestigious Career Z Challenge.
2023
Launched our first English Language Learning class in Newark that led to the development of a unique ELL rubric.
