A social Enterprise supporting construction trainers
The TEACH Construction Initiative was conceived by Michael Smith when he was the Director of the Colorado Homebuilding Academy, now known as Build Strong Academy. As the Academy’s success grew, people took note and wanted to know what was their “secret sauce” – Michael always said it’s not a secret…we will share all we have. That mindset grew into an idea and the idea grew into a product called TEACH. At first it was an acronym – Technical Education Assistance for Careers in Homebuilding. We no longer use the acronym – but still use caps for the word TEACH.
Michael departed the Academy in August of 2018 to focus solely on expanding the reach of TEACH. He founded the new Social Enterprise Building Workforce Solutions, L3C , and TEACH is a division of that entity. Shortly after, Michael convinced Joe to join the team as a partner and the rest has been history. A history that you can watch along with on YouTube.
In addition to supporting Schools, Colleges, and Work-based Learning Programs TEACH is hard at work building partnerships with Industry to support the growth of our training resources.
It is important to note that TEACH Construction focuses on creating curriculum, and the related Instructional Resources, for the teaching of basic to intermediate skills in construction. There are lots of great Apprentice programs out there and many specialty training programs that are going a great job, we are not trying to replace them. But we found a major void in the educational arena of quality training tools for the introduction to the trades level, and those that we did find are relatively expensive. So we set out to change it.
