Question 1

How do opportunities get into ImBlaze?

Accepted Answer

Coordinators input and manage the opportunities in ImBlaze. Students can suggest new opportunities that coordinators can review and approve or deny.

Question 2

Who has access to ImBlaze?

Accepted Answer

Students, educators, and coordinators can use our web app, our iOS app, or our Android app. Mentors get an email in their inbox with a link to verify student attendance.

Question 3

How is student information kept private and safe?

Accepted Answer

ImBlaze is built upon Salesforce - an industry standard platform for hosting data trusted by fortune 500 companies, high education and health care sectors. Salesforce utilizes a minimum of 128-bit rest encryption and browsers must be a minimum of TLS 1.1 compliant.

Question 4

What information do you gather about students?

Accepted Answer

Required data includes:
full name
e-mail
educator's name
coordinator's name

Optional data includes:
photo or avatar
student's phone number
student ID
student LinkedIn profile
school grade
gender
experiences history
requests
wish list
attendance time logs

Question 5

Does ImBlaze support students' experiences that are not internships (service days, shadow days, etc.)?

Accepted Answer

Schools have adapted ImBlaze to track shadow days, on-site internships, mentored projects, and even attendance at community college classes.

Question 6

How do we even get started building an internship program?

Accepted Answer

Big Picture Learning has been helping schools develop student-centered internship programs for almost 25 years. Reach out and we can connect you with the coaching resources you need.

Question 7

In what ways can you support our school in ensuring that our internship program is successful?

Accepted Answer

Two compelling resources that can help:

Big Picture Learning can provide coaching services for your school to change practice to support an internship program.
Check out Learning Big Picture, our online professional development resource.

Question 8

What is Big Picture Learning?

Accepted Answer

At the core of Big Picture Learning’s mission is a commitment to equity for all students, especially underserved urban students, and the expectation that these students can achieve success.

Big Picture Learning designs innovative learning environments, researches and replicates new models for learning, and trains educators to serve as leaders in their schools and communities. In order to create and influence the education of the future, Big Picture Learning must continually reflect on and improve our practice and research to provide the results to leverage our influence in policy decisions and educational systems at the state, national, and international levels.

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Question 9

What is Learning Big Picture?

Accepted Answer

Learning Big Picture is an online professional development tool to bring just-in-time training and PD to your team, to facilitate your journey to student internships and personalized learning.

Question 10

What roles do we need at our school to run an internship program?

Accepted Answer

There are two key roles that will help with a successful internship program:

Coordinator: This can be a CTE teacher, an assistant principal, or a variety of other folks around the school. The role involved curating and cultivating connections with mentors in the community to develop a dataset of opportunities. Once in ImBlaze, students can then request to pursue those opportunities. The coordinator can also assist with internship readiness instruction and managing compliance documentation.

Advisors: This can be an advisor or a CTE teacher. The role involves supporting a student through their interest exploration and pursuit of opportunities. Once a student lands an experience, this role also supports the development of project work as well verifying student attendance in ImBlaze.

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