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Beth Best

Industry Partnership Coordinator at EPIC Campus in Littleton, Colorado, leading work-based learning and employer partnerships for high school students.

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APPEARANCES

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PODCASTS

Sep 14, 2026

Management Under Construction

Management Under Construction

S4 E10 Workforce Readiness, Signing Day, and the Power of Networking - EPIC Campus Part 2

Sep 14 · 45m

Mark FinerGUEST

5:26

I'm going to let Beth tell that because it's such a great win for our students.

5:33

Workforce readiness is embedded into every single class that we teach at Epic Campus.

5:38

We really focus on work-based learning versus school-based learning.

5:42

And under work-based learning is these workforce readiness skills.

5:47

So we teach communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and professionalism.

5:53

We had two busfuls of students that we took down to this career fair specifically for the construction trades program.

6:02

industry.

14 MINS LATER

20:10

And I would like you to explain to the audience, what is Signing Day at Epic Campus?

Management Under Construction

Management Under Construction

S4 E9 Building Career Pathways, Industry Partnerships, and Workforce Readiness with EPIC Campus part 1

Sep 7 · 40m

25:48

What are the biggest challenges that you face in coordinating industry partners' schedules? And how do you solve that?

25:55

The age-old question.

25:57

And the answer is time.

25:58

It just comes down to time.

26:01

Industry partners are running their businesses.

26:04

They are focused on completing their own work and projects and expanding.

26:11

So really, it comes down to who has the time to come in.

9 MINS LATER

Mark FinerGUEST

34:59

But they're very powerful.