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.
Guests speak to students
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The mentoring program,
alone, would be a significant
accomplishment but it is only
one piece of a career center
that serves the entire student
body. Speakers from a variety
of industries give talks to stu
dents at all grade levels. 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. She said that by
that time funding levels should
be more firmly set at the state
level.
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