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Advisory Boards that Work: Success Stories at Milwaukee-
Washington HS of ITJoe Kmoch [email protected]
Sheryl Knox [email protected] Valentine
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iFair IT and Engineering Career Fair with a Twist
• Opening video of one of the first iFairs
• The story
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iFair IT and Engineering Career Fair with a Twist
• Description and highlights of each iFair (10 m) Finding exhibitors and pre-fair information
Finding schools and pre-fair preparation including lesson plan and handouts
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iFair IT and Engineering Career Fair with a Twist At the fair – for students, for exhibitors
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iFair IT and Engineering Career Fair with a Twist At the fair – for students, for exhibitors
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iFair IT and Engineering Career Fair with a Twist At the fair – for students, for exhibitors
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iFair IT and Engineering Career Fair with a Twist After the fair – for students, for exhibitors, for
teachers
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WHSoIT Advisory Board and WHS Staff Training Wednesday, March 6, 2013 – 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
WHS Library AGENDA
Employability Skills Poster
Welcome and Purpose ……………………………………….………………Dorothy Valentine Career & Technical Education ……………………….………....…Eric Radomski/Terri Salzer Business Requirements ……………………………….….…………..………...Edna Abernathy Group Session Expectations……………………………………………..……Dorothy Valentine Group Questions:
- How does PBIS work in the classroom?
- How would you suggest using this employability skill in your classroom?
- What is one way to reward the students for practicing these skills? Group Report-Outs WHS Graduates: How WHS played a role in their success ……………………………………Desiree Cocroft Tony Braddock Retired Teacher Insights ……………………………………………………….…….Freda Bell Acknowledgements Next Steps
How we introduced this to the staff:
Your turn!Divide into groups so that there are no more
than 8 in a group.
Choose one of the 6 Employability skills areas
Generate ideas to include those in your classroom, noting them on a large poster
sheet
Share out ideas to the larger group
Notes from Sharing Segment:
Other AB ActivitiesStudent Leadership Workshop
Planned Training Module Schedule
January: OrientationConduct Ethics Eval, Dress for Success
February: Integrity and Ethics
March: Communication Skills…and Listening & Feedback
April: Interpersonal Skills
May: Decision-Making/Problem-Solving Skills
Student application and teacher sign-off
Other AB Activities
Mock Interview Sessions • At least two possibly three• Prep workshops for students• Goal is to have a group of students do
all three mock interviews• Evaluate Progress
Other AB ActivitiesAB Membership – enlarging
and maintainingNote the many different ways of adding to and maintaining a board• Software engineer who changed jobs and asked his
new small company to continue
• Added social gaming company CEO through contact via a community college IT program advisory board
• Added a retired engineer via personal contact with previous school administrator
Other AB ActivitiesAB Membership – enlarging
and maintaining• Added Student Development Director via contacts
with local STEM organization (also an Alum from 2002)
• Added an Education Outreach specialist via other contacts at Marquette University
• Added large health care provider Human Resources Development person through personal contact
• Added IT Education Director because of interest in student internships
Other AB ActivitiesAB Membership – enlarging
and maintaining• Maintenance
• Replaced community college contact with an individual in their STEM outreach department
• Replaced exec director of organization of STEM-interested businesses with new exec director
• Replaced engineer at large firm with an IT specialist
Other AB ActivitiesAB Membership – enlarging
and maintaining• The big coup in the last few weeks:
• Woman who is the CIO Emeritus of a large Milwaukee corporation
• She is also director if IT-United, a large group of CIOs in Milwaukee who want to volunteer and increase the number of kids interested in IT.
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AdvisoryBoard
Other AB Activities
Revised NAF bylaws templatereflecting consensus strategy we use
WHSoIT ByLaws
Article VII – Meetings; Section 2: Voting “Votes shall be called on procedural issues specifically defined in these By-Laws. A consensus model shall be used on all other issues and proposals.”
WHSoIT ByLaws
Article VII – Meetings; Section 4: Consensus Decision Making “A consensus model shall be used for decision making on issues considered by the Advisory Board and its Committees.”
… “The Advisory Board shall work toward achieving compromise in these situations. If compromise cannot be reached, the Advisory Board Chairperson may call for a majority vote as a last resort.
Thank you for listening and participating
Presentation is available on the NAF NEXT webite and also on
http://whsoit-advboard.pbworks.com
