Progress Report March 8, 2011
Progress Report March 8, 2011. Region Team Members. Meetings. Work Ready Certified Community Status and Go For Gold. Regional Industry Partnership. What’s New?.
Progress Report March 8, 2011
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Presentation Transcript
What’s New? • Teacher Support Group: Planning a teacher support group to get more biotechnology into existing science courses interesting more students in science careers. Valdosta City will put a biotech course into place next year if enough students sign up, and Susan is trying to get a group of interested teachers together to offer ideas to each other. • Engineering Workshop for Girls • New businesses/industries for GIFT program • Person dedicated to promoting “Go for the Gold” to examinees • Facebook: Wiregrass Work Ready
Best Practices • Training teachers and letting them tell us what works and what doesn’t in their classrooms • Having a person dedicated to promoting gold which resulted in high gold rate (Berrien County) and which led us to expand this • Offering Locating Information training in face-to-face format for RIN and others
Issues/Concerns • Limited time during the sustaining grant to work with teachers (only one summer) • Impact that Federal formula for determining HSGR • Limited time to impact graduation rates for this year • Developing leaders for our region • Concern about whether federal budgetary changes to WIA funds will impact the sustainability grants
Questions? Comments? Recommendations?