[RTC List] School to Careers

[Quezada, Jose]

Bob- I am pretty familiar with School-to-Career programs, and feel that our current Digital Pathways efforts are a natural fit. DP aspires to give high school youth, as well as older youth not attending school, specific multi-media skills. For example, five DP youth will have their video projects (built in Final Cut Pro) shown during Arts! Alive at the Eureka Theatre this weekend. This is after showing it as part of the current Wild Rivers film festival in Ferndale this week. They earned HSU credit, and three are continuing on as part of an "intern" video production team. Please let me know if I can attend a meeting and see how our partnership (Workforce Investment Board, Eureka City Schools, Eureka Adult School, Access Humboldt and the StepUp program partners) can help enhance STC activities.
José Quezada 
Workforce Program Coordinator 
CDS/ Economic Development Division 
520 E Street, Eureka, CA 95501 
(707) 476-4804 (direct) 
(707) 445-7219 (fax) 

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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
 
 
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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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