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Engineering Your Ideas Into Reality
Laura Hickle Coordinator of Special
Projects Sierra Sands Unified School
District lhickle_at_ssusd.org

• Mark Pierce
• Sierra Sands Unified School District
• Math and PLTW Instructor
• mpierce_at_ssusd.org

Students Sierra Sands Unified School District
Educating for Careers Conference March 4, 2011
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What is your primary role?

1. Core Academic Teaching staff
2. CTE Teaching staff
3. Counselor
4. Administrator
5. Parent
6. Other

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Goals for this session

• Participants will gain knowledge and tools that
  will enable them to
• Assist in positioning an organization for
  proactive movement
• Understand how a program (using engineering as an
  example) can be infused into an educational
  system
• Institute curricular changes at their level of
  responsibility
• Seek out grant resources to aid in implementation

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Which is more rigorous and valuable for students?

1. College preparatory coursework
2. Career Technical Education
3. Both- depends upon the quality of the instruction
4. No opinion

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Burroughs High SchoolDavid Ostash- Principal
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Career Technical Education

• ROP Programs
• Auto, Construction, Criminal Justice, Retail
  Coop, TV Video Production, and Health Careers
• Other CTE Courses
• Industrial Arts (Wood, Metal, Mechanical Drawing)
• Engineering (Project Lead the Way)- Introduction
  to Engineering Design, Principles of Engineering,
  Digital Electronics, Civil Engineering and
  Architecture
• Grants
• SB 70 Strengthening CTE Grants (3), Prop 1D CTE
  Facilities Programs (3), Health Science Building
  Capacity Grant (3 years), Tech Prep Demo
  (Engineering), Industry Donations

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K12-Employer-College Partnerships

• Cerro Coso College
• Naval Air Warfare Center China Lake
• Sierra Sands Unified School District (SSUSD)

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Does your school district have formalized
educational partnerships with industry/
businesses or higher education?

1. Yes
2. No
3. Unsure

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Define a Common Vision

• Define a Common Vision involving all stake
  holders
• Determine mutual needs
• Define Trends
• What is coming up in the future?
• What will meet your local needs in the future?
• Define demographics
• Define expectations, roles and responsibilities

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Common Vision (continued)

• Create short and long term MEASURABLE goals
• Align with goals and policies of all
  participating organizations
• Draft MOUs and Letters of Agreement
• Formulate evaluations and reporting mechanisms

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Our Common Vision

• Home Grow our Own- Engineering and Technical
  Employees
• Expand opportunities in our valley for Renewable
  Energy

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STEPS

• Identified curriculum
• Active grant writing efforts in partnership
• Secured startup funding and FTE

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Project Lead the Way- Engineering

• Principles of Engineering
• Intro. Eng. Design
• Digital Electronics
• Civil Engineering and
• Architecture
• Courses are UC/CSU
• approved

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Gateway to Technology

• Middle School level
• 6 modules
• Intensive summer professional development
• www.pltw.org

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Middle School Summer Robotics and ASES programs

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PLTW

• The Teacher Perspective
• Mark Pierce

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PLTW

• The Student Perspective

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Leveraging Funds and Other Resources

• SB 70-require involvement by at least one high
  school per application
• Collaborating to prepare grant applications
• Collaboration and combining funds to avoid
  duplication and redundancy
• Joint purchases make funds go further for all
  partners
• Leveraging funding sources to purchase equipment

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Getting the Grant

• The SECRET
• Start
• Early
• Completely
• Read (the musts and the gotyas)
• Expand the grant
• Time Commitment

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The Cardinal Rule!

• NEVER, EVER
• make the reader search for the information

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GOALS

• SMART Goals
• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Relevant
• Time specific (and timely)

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Graphs and Charts

• Some effective charts
• Current research regarding your proposal
• Show current success or highlight needs
• Resources available
• Outcomes
• Timelines
• Organization charts

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• Budget
• Evaluation and Analysis
• Sustainability

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Sustainability

• Need support and trust from highest levels of all
  partners
• Communication needs to be ongoing, informal and
  formal
• Blend email updates with face to face contact-
  both are important
• Provide for private and public recognition-
  celebrate successes
• Measurable success that is communicated and
  disseminated on a regular basis

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Some Measures of Success

• Student achievement
• Increased funding
• Increase in school to career transitions
• Student scholarships
• Increase in involvement/ collaboration
• Increased publicity
• Better prepared workforce
• Satisfaction surveys (all partnership
  participants)
• Other ideas
• Adapted from The Council for Corporate School
  Partnerships Guiding Principles for Business and
  School Partnerships ((2000)

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• Take the TIME to proofread and critique
• Submit on time

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Did this session meet your expectations?

1. Greatly- learned a lot
2. Yes- gathered some new ideas
3. So- So- only a few ideas were new to me
4. No

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Thank you for coming to our presentation

• Please turn in your Turning Point Handhelds
  (Student Response Systems)
• www.turningtechnologies.com