Advisory Boards that Work: Success Stories at Milwaukee- Washington HS of IT Joe Kmoch joe@jkmoch.comjoe@jkmoch.com Sheryl Knox she4kn@aol.comshe4kn@aol.com.

Advisory Boards that Work: Success Stories at Milwaukee-

Washington HS of ITJoe Kmoch joe@jkmoch.com

Sheryl Knox she4kn@aol.comDorothy Valentine

dorothy.valentine@yahoo.com

Site:http://whsoit-advboard.pbworks.com

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Washington High School Information Technology

Washington High School AOIT Academy

Enrollment 716:•African American: 92%•White: 3.5%•Asian: 3.5%•Hispanic/Latino: 1%•Free/Reduced Lunch:

70

Female: 46.9%Male: 53.1%

Female: 78%Male: 22%

Attendance 75.5% 84.03%

Suspension Rate 17.4%

MAP Scores Math: 209.3→ 213.2Reading: 204.1→207.8

Fall to Spring

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iFair IT and Engineering Career Fair with a Twist•The story

•Video of the first iFair•<http://ifair.pbworks.com>

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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•Wanted teachers to infuse this in class

We created a 3 segment lesson plan pre, during the event and post activities

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iFair IT and Engineering Career Fair with a Twist <http://ifair.pbworks.com>

At the fair – for students, for exhibitors

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iFair IT and Engineering Career Fair with a Twist <http://ifair.pbworks.com>

At the fair – for students, for exhibitors

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iFair IT and Engineering Career Fair with a Twist <http://ifair.pbworks.com>

At the fair – for students, for exhibitors

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iFair IT and Engineering Career Fair with a Twist

After the fair – for students, for exhibitors, for teachers

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How we introduced this to the staff:

Your turn!Divide into groups so that there are no more

than 4-5 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

Notes from Sharing Segment:

Other AB ActivitiesStudent Leadership Workshop

Planned Training Module ScheduleJanuary: Orientation

Conduct Ethics Eval, Dress for Success

February: Integrity and EthicsMarch: Communication Skills

…and Listening & Feedback

April: Interpersonal SkillsMay: Decision-Making/Problem-Solving Skills

Student application and teacher sign-off

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

Other AB Activities

Coordination between this board and the school’s AOHT Board

Also dealing with the Director position for each academy (we have two NAF plus PLTW)

Other AB ActivitiesAB Membership – enlarging

and maintainingNote 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

Other AB ActivitiesAB 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

Other AB ActivitiesAB Membership – enlarging

and maintaining• Maintenance

• Replaced community college member 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

Other AB ActivitiesAB 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.

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WHSoIT AOIT AB Meeting

Other AB Activities

Revised NAF bylaws templatereflecting consensus strategy we use

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.”

WHSoIT ByLawsArticle 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.

Thank you for listening and participating

Presentation is available on the NAF NEXT website and also on

http://whsoit-advboard.pbworks.com