Greatest Need Program - Area Learning Center
$31,089.70
Fran Crisman, Coord.

Goals:

1. To improve student skills in conflict resolution, harassment and violence prevention.
2. To decrease the number of drug related suspensions by providing training to staff and students in the area of drug awareness and intervention.
3. To provide training for pregnant young women, teen parents and other students on the issues of co-dependency and abuse, with the goal of decreasing the reported number of physical/sexual abuse and date rape victims by students at the Area Learning Center.

Carl Perkins Vocational-Technical Education Five Year Program Plan
$229,515.00 per year
Renee Wonser, Coord.

Goals:

1. Recruit learners for nontraditional training and employment.
2. Provide support services for students for nontraditional training and employment.  This may include: transportation for related activities, counseling services, academic/curriculum support (tech. tutors).
3. Increase student and staff awareness of options in nontraditional training and employment.

West Suburban TECH PREP Consortium
$119,000.00
Renee Wonser, Coord.

Goals:

1. To expand and enrich contextual based curriculum and instruction by utilizing multimedia curriculum, websites and the internet with industry partnerships and classroom activities.
2. Offer distance delivery (electronic fieldtrips) of work-based learning by use of e-mail between business and schools to address questions on applied academics presented by students.
3. To align learner assessment and evaluation with industry standards by designing a website for sharing vocational assessments that tie to graduation standards and by having instructors team with a business mentor to design evaluation packages.
4. Continue to build the number of graduation standard assessments available through vocational courses.
5. To connect counseling and student services to the Tech Prep initiative.  This will be done with a partnership between Normandale Community College and high school counselors to develop curriculum for high school juniors and to develop transition services and curriculum for special needs students.
6. To better prepare students for postsecondary education by revising, updating and delivering curriculum that better prepares students for college. A mentoring program will be established for students planning to enter non-traditional careers.
7. To increase participation in Tech Prep related activities through marketing initiatives for both student and business participation. This will be accomplished by providing materials to businesses that encourages employers to offer workbased learning opportunities for students with special needs, developing a website of Tech Prep best practices for K-12, focusing on applied academics, and to produce a series of student commercials that describe how they “learn by doing” to show over local school district cable stations.