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Marketing Diagnosis Activity
Students analyze a real business or pitch page to judge what a first-time visitor actually understands from it.
Marketing
Exploration hours are the easy half.
Capstone is where students get stuck.
Most qualifying work-based learning types need a business to host a student. There are only so many businesses in a county. Student entrepreneurship needs a business to review a student, which is a completely different supply problem.
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The arithmetic most schools have not run yet
Several states attach work-based learning hours to a diploma credential. In Indiana, for example, the optional honors seals ask for 75, 150 or 650 hours.
Capstone experiences each needs
3
At least 25 hours apiece.
There are not more employers. That is the problem we exist for.
If your students are online or spread out
For most schools placement is inconvenient. For these two it is not possible.
Online and virtual schools
Students are scattered across a whole state. There is no local employer, because there is no local.
Our reviewers are remote by design.
Rural districts
The trades are usually covered by shops and placements. Business, marketing and accounting are the ones with nowhere to go.
This is built for the pathways you cannot place.
Pick the experience. Name the partner. Show the hours.
Three decisions, and only the first one takes any thought.
Step 1 · Pick the experience
Step 2 · Name the employer partner
The state needs one named on the training plan. This is a choice rather than a search.
Use one of ours
A reviewer matched to the experience, currently working in that field.
Bring your own
An advisory board member you already name on training plans works, if they are currently in the field.
Mix them
Yours where you have someone, ours for the pathways you cannot cover locally.
Step 3 · Show the hours
Students log hours as they work. Your school reviews the record and reports the hours itself. Your school makes the final determination.
Start with one pathway
Start where it is hardest. One pathway, one semester, and a clear list of what your state asks you to keep on file.
The way most schools start
One pathway
The one you cannot place. Usually business, accounting or marketing.
One semester
Long enough for the hours to build, short enough to stop.
Already running KANU
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Breeann Gibbons
CTE Director, Julesburg School District
“KANU is easy for our students to navigate without feeling overwhelmed, and it still offers a fantastic experience. Working with the team has been a joy. We're already planning to include KANU in our next Perkins grant.”
Galen Harkness
Business Teacher, Julesburg School District
“KANU helped me bring real-world content into the classroom. It's clever and packed with powerful content, and it made a real difference in how my students engaged.”
Justin Heacock
Executive Director, Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, Florida Southern College
“KANU took our incubation program from 25 students to over 400 in a single academic year. With one full-time employee, we run a full incubation program without adding staff.”
Jeff Meade
Entrepreneurship Program Director, Paul Quinn College
“Learning happens when you actually do something, and KANU captures venture-based learning in a nutshell. It's incredible to see.”
USASBE 2022 3E first place
Recognition & proof, as it happens.
INSIGHTS
Colorado's Big Three: How Student Entrepreneurship Counts as Work-Based Learning
What actually qualifies, and where student entrepreneurship fits.
FUNDING
How schools fund work-based learning
The funding guide for CTE directors, with the state-administered caveats spelled out.
Read the funding guideSTATES
Work-based learning requirements, state by state
Sourced requirements for Texas, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan.
State requirementsLooking for something shorter?
The full experience library has one-period activities your teachers can run without changing the syllabus.
Questions directors ask
Districts like Julesburg School District fund this through Perkins. Allowability is state-administered, so confirm with your state CTE office. Schools can also use discretionary CTE or work-based learning funds.Read the funding guide →State requirements →
No. In-state is usually preferable but not required. What matters is that the professional is currently working in the field they are reviewing. Your school confirms this against your state's rules.
Yes. One reviewer can serve a cohort of thirty students, and one signature can cover every training plan.
Yes, as long as they are currently working in the field. Several schools do exactly this. We supply reviewers so you do not have to go and find one, not because you cannot use your own.
They pick an experience and run it. Progress is completion-tracked, so there is no subjective grading pile at the end. The industry professional handles the assessment.
Those platforms track hours from placements your school still has to find. This is the placement. The two sit alongside each other rather than competing.
Free covers the curriculum. It does not cover the employer partner, and in most states a school-based enterprise still needs one named before it counts. That is the part schools cannot staff.
No. It can sit at any point in the pathway.
Yes. One pathway, one semester, with the full documentation. What you pay comes off the building license when you continue.
Get your building's mapping
Twenty minutes. We look at your programs of study and send a one-page crosswalk showing which experiences fit where and the hours each produces.