[RTC List] School to Careers

[CrawfordCA at aol.com]

This is a terrific program, Bob. Thank you for serving.
 
In my view, here are some of the things that need to be on CR's  plate ...
 
 
1) First and foremost, CR has to position itself as the primary vocation  
education provider. College prep is important, but a major deliverable  should be 
vocational ed.
 
2) In keeping with #1, take the Jon Sapper report on the skills that are  
needed for the local workforce and pound on it. Develop programs and curricula  
around it.
 
3) Create an advisory board consisting of local business folks who pay a  
$200 annual dues to serve as CR's biz think tank.
 
4) Take CR's past IT curriculum advisory group concept (a less formal  
version of #3), spread it to other curriculum topics and have those people vet  the 
various curricula and otherwise advise the faculty. 
 
5) Serve as the next step from farm league graduates of the middle and  high 
school EAST programs. Build on those lessons learned and tie these students  
into worthwhile community projects.

 
You know how much I HATE meetings, but I may be willing to attend one good  
meeting to further flesh some of these concepts out.
 
THANKS !!!
 
Chris Crawford
_www.justiceserved.com_ (http://www.justiceserved.com) 
 
 
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In a message dated 9/4/2008 2:51:16 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
bob at morsemedia.net writes:

As part  of my RTC efforts I am now serving on the North Coast School to 
Careers  Committee as one of the representatives from the business 
community. The  Committee is designed to help inform High Schools, 
College of the Redwoods  and HSU regarding the kinds of training and 
skills that should be offered  to students to prepare them for the work 
force.

Our next meeting is  September 29th. I am looking for thoughts from list 
members that I can  bring to the Committee along these lines. If you are 
ever in a position to  hire young people just out of college or high 
school I would love to hear  from you. A couple specific questions:

What skills do you look  for?

What's missing that could improved with better  training?

Please provide any other thoughts you would like to share  with the 
Committee.

Thanks for your  time!







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