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About The independent. (Vernonia, Or.) 1986-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 2003)
The power of volunteers was consortium in October 2002. signed an adult volunteer men illustrated at the Banks school Hardie told the board that tor. Each mentor has up to nine board meeting April 14 with a Douglas and Mills had capital students to meet with on an in presentation to the board about ized on previous work done to dividual basis, to discuss post the high school career center. begin developing a career cen high school plans. Mentors be High school guidance coun ter in the high school. They gin working with students in the selor Tim Hardie introduced have been able to inspire other spring of the junior year. Each Kathy Douglas and Renee Mills adults and share their vision. student is given a booklet in with profuse praise for their ef This dedicated group of fifteen cludes extensive information forts. He told the board that it adults keeps the career center about internships and career was an honor to work with vol open to students every day. In days, detailed admissions re unteers so enthusiastic and addition to the career center, quirements for community and dedicated that he just “gets out Mills and Douglas have made four-year colleges, as well as a of their way”. He reminded the connections between the work variety of trade schools and pri board of the well-deserved place and the curriculum for all vate institutions, tips for decid recognition the two women re grade levels. ing which test to take and how ceived from the Business Edu Adult mentors assist to take them, financial aid, job cation Compact, a metropolitan As part of the career center application skills and miscella area business and education each high school senior is as- neous information. Mentors fol low-up by contacting students throughout the year to make sure they stay on track to meet the goals they have set. 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Mills and Douglas, reviewing career center accom plishm ents for this year, told the board that six parents and one teacher have been trained on the Oregon Career Information System (CIS online). This online re source, developed by the Uni versity of Oregon, has exten sive information students can access about occupations and employment, education and training, and exploration tools that allow students to get infor mation about jobs, school, and themselves. Another critical piece of the career center is the LINKS sys discover, by com pleting the tem, a school-to-work program program, that a selected career that connects students to in is really not for them. ternships. Six parents were Board thanked for funds also trained to use this system Mills and Douglas concluded this year. Seniors complete a their remarks to the board by career exploration program as thanking them for providing the part of the social studies cur funding needed for access to riculum. This program replaces LINKS and CIS. A $500 dona the senior project previously in tion from the BHS Parent Asso place. Career exploration is ciation also provides for a sub composed of five required ac scription to Vocational Biogra tivities. The first activity is a se phies. Superintendent Marilyn ries of three short papers that McGlasson told the board that students write after researching another example of why Banks three career choices. Second, is a great community, is that students must interview an indi volunteers can, and will, step vidual working in two of the ca up to the plate to develop and reer choices. Students are giv maintain a program like the ca en a list of nine questions they reer center that enhances edu must include as part of the in cation. Mills and Douglas want terview, including what the per ed to make sure that the board son’s job duties are on a daily recognized that the 75 - 90 vol basis, what kind of training was unteer hours per week are needed and where did they get spread over a large group of it, etc. volunteers. Board member The third portion of the ca Willis Meeuwsen said that the reer exploration is a job shad great thing about the whole owing opportunity. Volunteers system was that it supported all from the career center assist students, not just the college students in finding job shadow bound. experiences, using the LINKS system. Students are required High School Fees to turn in a resumé, intervie^/ Banks High School Principal for the job, complete a packet and send a thank you letter to Jim Foster told the board that changes proposed were to split get full credit for this portion of the towel fee and add a lab fee the project. for science classes. Foster said The final two portions of the that new students and fresh career exploration are a reflec man will be charged $15 for tion paper and speech. These physical education uniforms. In are similar to the paper and addition, all students will pay a speech required for a senior $5 towel fee (for laundry servic project, but relate far more di es and towel replacem ent). rectly to a student’s future em However, students will have to ployment plans and work expe pay $20 for a replacement uni rience. Hardie told the board form if their uniform is lost. The that some of the most valuable other change is the addition of learning comes when students a five dollar fee for science classes to facilitate the replace ment of lab materials. The board unanimously approved the fee changes. Budget Calendar McGlasson told the board that discussion of the budget should not begin until the m id dle of May. 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