Wondering what it looks like for an advisory board to REALLY engage with an academy? Come hear about how the advisory board at Milwaukee-Washington High School of IT got there. In the last two years, the board has hosted an interactive IT and engineering career fair, delivered workshops and recruited eight new members
Presenters: Joe Kmoch, Sheryl Know, Washington High School of IT, and Dorothy Valentine, SET Ministry
Advisory Boards that Work: Success Stories at Milwaukee-Washington High School of IT
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2. Advisory Boards that Work:
Success Stories at Milwaukee-
Washington HS of IT
Joe Kmoch joe@jkmoch.com
Sheryl Knox she4kn@aol.com
Dorothy Valentine
<dorothy.valentine@yahoo.com>
4. #nafnext
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
6. #nafnext
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
8. #nafnext
iFair IT and Engineering Career Fair
with a Twist
At the fair – for students, for exhibitors
9. #nafnext
iFair IT and Engineering Career Fair
with a Twist
After the fair – for students, for exhibitors, for
teachers
11. #nafnext
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:
12. 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
14. Other AB Activities
Student Leadership Workshop
Planned Training Module Schedule
January: Orientation
Conduct 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
15. 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
16. Other AB Activities
AB Membership – enlarging
and maintaining
Note 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
17. Other AB Activities
AB 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
18. Other AB Activities
AB 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
19. Other AB Activities
AB 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.
22. 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.”
23. 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.
24. Thank you for listening and
participating
Presentation is available on the NAF NEXT
webite and also on
http://whsoit-advboard.pbworks.com
Notas del editor
Two a year; one in the Fall focused on Middle School visitors, the other in the spring with priority to high schoolsFall at Washington HS of IT, Spring at Harley-Davidson (the video was at WHS)iFair is among other things anOpportunity for Gr 7-10 students to find out about IT and Engineering opportunitiesOpportunity for businesses to sell the excitement of IT and engineering careersOpportunity to have students and professionals to interact in a meaningful, personal wayTry to make this an event that teachers will infuse into their classroomsStudent and teacher preparation before the visitBusiness and university professionals preparing before the eventSelling the excitement of careers in IT and engineering, but not selling productStudents having in-depth discussions with young professionals on the exhibit floor and in the panel discussion at the end of the visitFollow-up by teachers and students in their classroom
Businesses on the Advisory Board for the UW-Whitewater MCS program didn’t understand why few if any high school students were applying to lucrative scholarships they offered for the MCS program.These AB members thought having a career fair for high school seniors would help.Dr. Robert Horton who heads UWW MCS program thought WHSoIT might be interestedHe and our WHSoIT AB board became convinced that the efforts should be directed at the middle school studentsWith some trepidation businesses on both board agreed to going “toe to toe” with mostly middle school students!
Businesses on the Advisory Board for the UW-Whitewater MCS program didn’t understand why few if any high school students were applying to lucrative scholarships they offered for the MCS program.These AB members thought having a career fair for high school seniors would help.Dr. Robert Horton who heads UWW MCS program thought WHSoIT might be interestedHe and our WHSoIT AB board became convinced that the efforts should be directed at the middle school studentsWith some trepidation businesses on both board agreed to going “toe to toe” with mostly middle school students!
Businesses on the Advisory Board for the UW-Whitewater MCS program didn’t understand why few if any high school students were applying to lucrative scholarships they offered for the MCS program.These AB members thought having a career fair for high school seniors would help.Dr. Robert Horton who heads UWW MCS program thought WHSoIT might be interestedHe and our WHSoIT AB board became convinced that the efforts should be directed at the middle school studentsWith some trepidation businesses on both board agreed to going “toe to toe” with mostly middle school students!iFair-07.jpg; iFair-12.jpgiFair-14.jpg; iFair-46.jpg
Businesses on the Advisory Board for the UW-Whitewater MCS program didn’t understand why few if any high school students were applying to lucrative scholarships they offered for the MCS program.These AB members thought having a career fair for high school seniors would help.Dr. Robert Horton who heads UWW MCS program thought WHSoIT might be interestedHe and our WHSoIT AB board became convinced that the efforts should be directed at the middle school studentsWith some trepidation businesses on both board agreed to going “toe to toe” with mostly middle school students!iFair-39.jpg; iFair-51.jpgiFair-61.jpg; iFair-79.jpg
Businesses on the Advisory Board for the UW-Whitewater MCS program didn’t understand why few if any high school students were applying to lucrative scholarships they offered for the MCS program.These AB members thought having a career fair for high school seniors would help.Dr. Robert Horton who heads UWW MCS program thought WHSoIT might be interestedHe and our WHSoIT AB board became convinced that the efforts should be directed at the middle school studentsWith some trepidation businesses on both board agreed to going “toe to toe” with mostly middle school students!iFair-73.jpg; iFair-81.jpg(to right) iFair-90.jpg
Businesses on the Advisory Board for the UW-Whitewater MCS program didn’t understand why few if any high school students were applying to lucrative scholarships they offered for the MCS program.These AB members thought having a career fair for high school seniors would help.Dr. Robert Horton who heads UWW MCS program thought WHSoIT might be interestedHe and our WHSoIT AB board became convinced that the efforts should be directed at the middle school studentsWith some trepidation businesses on both board agreed to going “toe to toe” with mostly middle school students!
Need to develop employability skills In joint meetings with a smaller group of teachers and then the whole staff, the Employability Skills poster and workbook were developed.Showing students at a young age that computing and engineering careers can be excitingYoung professionals act as role models Encourage high levels of significant studiesThus...
AB MembershipHere’s a list of the 8 new members:Concurrency, Inc – software engineer, Matt Herman (moved to a different company and wanted to continue to be involved; also encouraged by his new company)CityBrook Church – community representative Jarod Cronk – James PlaceCircle1Network/Kidscom.com – social gaming company CEO Jori Clarke – student involvement opportunitiesDelco – retired engineer Tom Kriofsky – via a husband of school adminMakeADifference-WI – student financial development, Desiree Cocroft (also alum ’02)British Computer Society – education outreach in US, Quentin Hart-Slater (also MU)Wheaton-Franciscan Healthcare – human resources development, Lea ToneyUS Bank, IT Education director, Marcia Tadeo (student internships)Plus we maintained three organizations but with new repMATC – AmruteNutanSTEMForward – Richard MerkelHarley-Davidson – Michelle Waite
AB MembershipHere’s a list of the 8 new members:Concurrency, Inc – software engineer, Matt Herman (moved to a different company and wanted to continue to be involved; also encouraged by his new company)CityBrook Church – community representative Jarod Cronk – James PlaceCircle1Network/Kidscom.com – social gaming company CEO Jori Clarke – student involvement opportunitiesDelco – retired engineer Tom Kriofsky – via a husband of school adminMakeADifference-WI – student financial development, Desiree Cocroft (also alum ’02)British Computer Society – education outreach in US, Quentin Hart-Slater (also MU)Wheaton-Franciscan Healthcare – human resources development, Lea ToneyUS Bank, IT Education director, Marcia Tadeo (student internships)Plus we maintained three organizations but with new repMATC – AmruteNutanSTEMForward – Richard MerkelHarley-Davidson – Michelle Waite
AB MembershipHere’s a list of the 8 new members:Concurrency, Inc – software engineer, Matt Herman (moved to a different company and wanted to continue to be involved; also encouraged by his new company)CityBrook Church – community representative Jarod Cronk – James PlaceCircle1Network/Kidscom.com – social gaming company CEO Jori Clarke – student involvement opportunitiesDelco – retired engineer Tom Kriofsky – via a husband of school adminMakeADifference-WI – student financial development, Desiree Cocroft (also alum ’02)British Computer Society – education outreach in US, Quentin Hart-Slater (also MU)Wheaton-Franciscan Healthcare – human resources development, Lea ToneyUS Bank, IT Education director, Marcia Tadeo (student internships)Plus we maintained three organizations but with new repMATC – AmruteNutanSTEMForward – Richard MerkelHarley-Davidson – Michelle Waite
AB MembershipHere’s a list of the 8 new members:Concurrency, Inc – software engineer, Matt Herman (moved to a different company and wanted to continue to be involved; also encouraged by his new company)CityBrook Church – community representative Jarod Cronk – James PlaceCircle1Network/Kidscom.com – social gaming company CEO Jori Clarke – student involvement opportunitiesDelco – retired engineer Tom Kriofsky – via a husband of school adminMakeADifference-WI – student financial development, Desiree Cocroft (also alum ’02)British Computer Society – education outreach in US, Quentin Hart-Slater (also MU)Wheaton-Franciscan Healthcare – human resources development, Lea ToneyUS Bank, IT Education director, Marcia Tadeo (student internships)Plus we maintained three organizations but with new repMATC – AmruteNutanSTEMForward – Richard MerkelHarley-Davidson – Michelle Waite
AB MembershipHere’s a list of the 8 new members:Concurrency, Inc – software engineer, Matt Herman (moved to a different company and wanted to continue to be involved; also encouraged by his new company)CityBrook Church – community representative Jarod Cronk – James PlaceCircle1Network/Kidscom.com – social gaming company CEO Jori Clarke – student involvement opportunitiesDelco – retired engineer Tom Kriofsky – via a husband of school adminMakeADifference-WI – student financial development, Desiree Cocroft (also alum ’02)British Computer Society – education outreach in US, Quentin Hart-Slater (also MU)Wheaton-Franciscan Healthcare – human resources development, Lea ToneyUS Bank, IT Education director, Marcia Tadeo (student internships)Plus we maintained three organizations but with new repMATC – AmruteNutanSTEMForward – Richard MerkelHarley-Davidson – Michelle Waite
AB MembershipHere’s a list of the 8 new members:Concurrency, Inc – software engineer, Matt Herman (moved to a different company and wanted to continue to be involved; also encouraged by his new company)CityBrook Church – community representative Jarod Cronk – James PlaceCircle1Network/Kidscom.com – social gaming company CEO Jori Clarke – student involvement opportunitiesDelco – retired engineer Tom Kriofsky – via a husband of school adminMakeADifference-WI – student financial development, Desiree Cocroft (also alum ’02)British Computer Society – education outreach in US, Quentin Hart-Slater (also MU)Wheaton-Franciscan Healthcare – human resources development, Lea ToneyUS Bank, IT Education director, Marcia Tadeo (student internships)Plus we maintained three organizations but with new repMATC – AmruteNutanSTEMForward – Richard MerkelHarley-Davidson – Michelle Waite
AB MembershipHere’s a list of the 8 new members:Concurrency, Inc – software engineer, Matt Herman (moved to a different company and wanted to continue to be involved; also encouraged by his new company)CityBrook Church – community representative Jarod Cronk – James PlaceCircle1Network/Kidscom.com – social gaming company CEO Jori Clarke – student involvement opportunitiesDelco – retired engineer Tom Kriofsky – via a husband of school adminMakeADifference-WI – student financial development, Desiree Cocroft (also alum ’02)British Computer Society – education outreach in US, Quentin Hart-Slater (also MU)Wheaton-Franciscan Healthcare – human resources development, Lea ToneyUS Bank, IT Education director, Marcia Tadeo (student internships)Plus we maintained three organizations but with new repMATC – AmruteNutanSTEMForward – Richard MerkelHarley-Davidson – Michelle Waite
AB MembershipHere’s a list of the 8 new members:Concurrency, Inc – software engineer, Matt Herman (moved to a different company and wanted to continue to be involved; also encouraged by his new company)CityBrook Church – community representative Jarod Cronk – James PlaceCircle1Network/Kidscom.com – social gaming company CEO Jori Clarke – student involvement opportunitiesDelco – retired engineer Tom Kriofsky – via a husband of school adminMakeADifference-WI – student financial development, Desiree Cocroft (also alum ’02)British Computer Society – education outreach in US, Quentin Hart-Slater (also MU)Wheaton-Franciscan Healthcare – human resources development, Lea ToneyUS Bank, IT Education director, Marcia Tadeo (student internships)Plus we maintained three organizations but with new repMATC – AmruteNutanSTEMForward – Richard MerkelHarley-Davidson – Michelle Waite