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Apprentice Learning is an educational program for middle school students that introduces students to the culture of work through short apprenticeships.

Students work alongside of adults and gain practical skills and insights needed to shape their futures.

10/08/2026

We’re just one week away from Pathways to Progress.

Have you gotten your tickets yet?

We'd love to celebrate with you.

This evening is always such a special chance to come together, celebrate our young people, reconnect with community, and reflect on all that becomes possible when we show up for one another and for our young apprentices.

Join us for a beautiful night of dinner, dancing, connection, and stories from the work happening at Apprentice Learning.

Whether you’ve been part of our community for years or are just getting to know us, we hope you’ll come spend the evening with us.

When: Thursday, October 15 | 6–9 PM
Where: Hibernian Hall, Roxbury

There’s still time to get your ticket. And even if you can't attend, please consider making a donation to help continue the work we are doing at Apprentice Learning.

Tickets: givebutter.com/Na5SLe or via the link in our bio.

10/06/2026

School is back in session, and a new cohort of Apprentices has begun their journey with Apprentice Learning.

As young people settle in, we’re creating space for them to ask questions, reflect, learn about themselves, and get to know one another.

One recent moment began with a simple question:

“If you have to be somewhere on time, is that chaotic, a challenge, or calm for you?”

With the words posted along a wall as a continuum, students moved toward the one that most accurately described them.

“Why did you choose chaotic?” Destini asked.

“I am always late. There’s just so much going on. You will be waiting for me.”

“And is there someone from the calm group who would like to share?”

“Yes. I am always organized. I’m early, and it’s easy.”

As Ayla, one of our team members, reflected:

“When we know something about each other, we can use that knowledge to be helpful—a step toward communal wealth.”

These are the kinds of moments that shape the Apprentice Learning experience: young people learning about themselves, learning from one another, and beginning to recognize the knowledge, experiences, and strengths already present within their community.

On Thursday, October 15, we invite you to be part of expanding this work.

Join us at Pathways to Progress: Sharing Communal Wealth for Boston’s Middle Grade Youth for an evening celebrating our young people and the community helping expand what they can experience, imagine, and become.

🎟️ Purchase your tickets and join us at Hibernian Hall from 6–9 PM.

GET YOUR TICKETS IN OUR BIO.

10/02/2026

Flashing back this Friday to our pitch at the Social Innovation Forum this summer.

It was an honor to be in community with so many incredible nonprofits working to strengthen Boston and beyond. Letta Neely's (AL's Executive Director) pitch for Apprentice Learning reminded us of the power of great storytelling—and of what becomes possible when our work, our resources, and our visions for young people are shared.

Hearing each organization share its story made one thing clear: we are united by a deep, collective desire to improve conditions across Boston and the surrounding communities. Communal wealth wins again.

Join us as we continue building that wealth together at Pathways to Progress, Apprentice Learning’s annual fundraiser.

Get your tickets and come celebrate, connect, and invest in what’s possible for Boston’s middle-grade youth.

Tickets at the link in our bio!

When: Thursday, October 15 | 6–9 PM
Where: Hibernian Hall, Roxbury

09/30/2026

This is what possibility looks like: Apprentice Learning alum Famata, then an eighth grader at Dearborn STEM Academy, shares her experience stepping into the world of marketing through her apprenticeship at the Kroc Center.

Join us at Pathways to Progress on October 15 and help us create more opportunities for Boston’s middle schoolers to explore, experience, and imagine what’s possible.

Tickets at the link in our bio!

When: Thursday, October 15 | 6–9 PM
Where: Hibernian Hall, Roxbury

09/29/2026

Pathways to Progress is Apprentice Learning’s annual fundraiser—a chance to celebrate the work that opens doors and expands possibilities for our young people every day.

But it’s so much more than a fundraiser.

Join us for dinner, raffle prizes, dancing, and an evening in community with the people who bring so much care, joy, and possibility to Apprentice Learning.

When: Thursday, October 15 | 6–9 PM
Where: Hibernian Hall, Roxbury

Get your tickets through the link in our bio, bring a friend, and help us continue creating pathways of possibility for Boston’s middle schoolers.

Can’t join us? Feel free to donate to the cause and share this invitation with your community and help us spread the word.

09/22/2026

Thank you to the artists, entrepreneurs, and professionals who serve as our Career Mentors and shared their time, gifts, and love with our Apprentices this year. Creativity shared with others extends the web of intellect, problem solving, art and joy that we all get to grow from.

We are so grateful for the community to makes the work at Apprentice Learning possible.

Come be part of our community and celebrate with us this October. Join us at our upcoming fundraiser, bring a friend, share the invitation, and help us build a wider circle of possibility around Boston’s young people.

Purchase your tickets via the link in our bio.

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09/11/2026

It’s that time of year again! 🎉🎉🎉 LINK IN BIO!

Join us for Pathways to Progress: Apprentice Learning’s Annual Fundraising Celebration—an evening of connection, inspiration, and community in support of Boston’s middle-grade youth.

Young people deserve the opportunity to explore who they are, discover what moves them, and imagine futures they may not yet know are possible.

But they shouldn’t have to do that alone.

At Apprentice Learning, we surround our middle schoolers with career mentors and a community willing to share their time, talents, connections, and treasures—opening doors, building relationships, and reminding them that they belong in every space they’re curious enough to explore.

Come be part of that community!!

When: Thursday, October 15 | 6–9 PM
Where: Hibernian Hall, Roxbury

Get your tickets via the link in our bio!

Bring a friend, and help us continue creating pathways of possibility for Boston’s youth. And if you can’t join us, please share this invitation with your community.

09/10/2026

to last summer's Career Extravaganza!

What happens when a young person meets someone who helps them see a possibility they hadn’t imagined for themselves?

That’s the power of a career mentor.

At the Career Extravaganza, 6th and 7th graders explored careers hands-on alongside professionals—building connections, asking questions, and discovering new fields and possible future selves.

At Apprentice Learning, we believe young people deserve more than exposure to careers. They deserve relationships, networks, and people who remind them that they belong in every space they’re curious enough to explore. That matters especially during the middle grades, when identity, confidence, and ideas about the future are beginning to take shape.

And we need a whole community to make that possible.

Come be part of it.

Join us next month at our "Pathways to Progress" fundraiser. Bring a friend, share the invitation, and help us build a wider circle of possibilities around our apprentices.

Register for the event via the link in our bio.

09/09/2026

Some summers go exactly as planned. This wasn't one of them.

It’s hard to believe summer is already behind us. September has arrived, young people are heading back to school, and here at Apprentice Learning, we’ve been reflecting on our summer Workplace Explorations.

This year, we pivoted.

City Summer Internship (CSI) has been a cornerstone of summer at Apprentice Learning. When we made the difficult decision not to offer it this year, we asked ourselves: What else might be possible?

We got curious.

We widened the circle, opening Workplace Explorations to middle-grade youth across our programs and giving more young people access to experiences traditionally reserved for our CSI cohort.

They climbed into airplane cockpits and flew drones. Bent metal and harvested kale. Extracted strawberry DNA, worked with pipettes, encountered robots, and asked scientists about AI.

But they encountered more than activities.

They encountered whole worlds of possibility.

An airplane became a glimpse into an ecosystem of careers. A laboratory became a place to experiment, ask questions, and imagine themselves belonging. Each new workplace became another point on a much larger map of what their lives could hold.

We don’t expect a middle schooler to know exactly where they’re going.

We want them to encounter enough of the world to understand just how many directions they could go. They can study science, finance, technology, communications, agriculture, engineering—or discover something completely new. The possibilities are endless.

Sometimes a change in plans opens doors you didn't even know were there.

Summer may be over.

But for these young people, we hope this was only the beginning.

Read the full Summer of Possibility reflection in our newsletter @ https://tinyurl.com/ApprenticeLearning (LINK IN BIO)

**A huge shout out and THANK YOU to all of our worksite partners and career mentors who dedicate their time and expertise to our young people.

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745 Centre Street
Jamaica Plain, MA
02130

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http://apprenticelearning.org/

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