Meetings

Meeting Minutes - 2/6/18

Request for a Parent and/or Community Partnership

• Computer science programming mentor/coach needed for Robotics Club!
• School Counselors searching support for their Advisory Board.
• Contact person is linked on the CHS-CP website under “Ways to Support > Teachers.”

Recent Testimonials

• Teresa Ellis: “As a manager of Woodmansee Insurance, we will be participating in the Career Day at the high school on February 16^th.”
• Cheri Olf: “Will be participating in the Career Day, by representing the renewable energy industry. She will show students the various online resources for researching careers in renewable energy, education options, etc. and answer questions they may have. I’ll have some handouts, and see about bringing some props.”
• Gina Morgan (CTC Cosmetology Educator): “We had the guest speaker come in from Salon Stella yesterday to the cosmetology room. She was great! She gave students a lot of insight to what salons are looking for and some great information on salon life itself. We are looking forward to working with her again.”

How the Rotary Has Partnered with Chariho High School

Interact Club: The Rotary has been working with Donna Caster and Michele Merlino by collecting food for the homeless and raising money. Incubator Program: The Rotary has been engaged with Susie Sacanpaco, helping the incubator program develop.Poetry program: The Rotary helped the poetry program, and loved engaging with students.

Frank Hopkins: “We are here and want to help the high school. We have a lot of talent in the club. What will help us is having our newest teacher membership be part of the club; currently we are welcoming 4 teachers to our meetings to hear the latest news the school is accomplishing.”

How Community 2000 Has Supported Chariho High School Students

Chris Philips (Community 2000): “We have supported the incubator program, invested money into technology for the one-to-one initiative, and much more. We are always looking for new ideas of ways to help kids in the school.” In the past Chris has visited students during lunch, bought them pizza, shared with them the mission of Community 2000, and to hear what educational supports students feel they need.

How Can the YMCA Can Support Chariho High School Students

The YMCA wants to help Chariho youth through health and making connections. “We are more than a gym, there are after school programs that operates in 3 elementary schools, we have date night events so parents can go out for the evening, there are teen nights, we have exercise classes, and an active senior population. We see Chariho high school students developing internship or mentorship opportunities at the YMCA through event planning, working with children in the kids program, and helping with the annual campaign to raise money so no one is ever turned away from the YMCA.” Upcoming Campaign Event: Dine and Donate.

Mr. MacKenzie: “We want our kids coming to the YMCA to make healthy positive relationships and connections, and develop leadership skills (working at a camp, participating in a fundraiser event, etc.).

Internship News

Ryan Northup (CTC Internship Coordinator): “Currently there are 37 students that are actively involved in an internship. Internships are a great experience for students to discover what it is like to be in the business world, what they like and do not like, and what they want to pursue after graduation.”

• Ryan shared information about the R.I. Governor's Workforce Initiative program: “WORK IMMERSION FOR STUDENTS - The Work Immersion for Students Program is designed to provide work experiences to college students and Career and Technical Education (CTE) high school students to build career relevant skills and give them real world work experiences which can boost their resume and increase both the employability and value to employers. Consistent with these Program Guidelines; the Work Immersion for Students program: • Provides a 50% wage reimbursement for wages from the state minimum wage up to $20.00 an hour. • Allows for work experiences for up to 20 weeks and between 45 - 400 total hours • Must be related to the student’s field of study • Must provide a meaningful learning opportunity.” http://gwb.ri.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/WI_Employer-Guidebook_july2017-1.pdf?189db0

Meeting Minutes - 11/14/17

• Actionable steps from the meeting:

1. Department Head meeting: survey the department heads for top 3 needs
2. Define the difference between an internship and mentorship
3. A virtual or physical board of internships/mentorships/job shadows (put the logo?)
4. Ask businesses what are some of the experiences that students can take advantage of?
5. Job share menu
6. Parent/Teacher conferences: signage
7. Commercial

Meeting Notes: Review what’s new:

Now that we have a strong group with good ideas, we now want to start to put together some ideas for how to create more opportunities for mentorship, guest speaking, volunteerism, etc. Nicole provided an overview and shared updates of the CHS-CP website: Ways to Support section: Teacher section: teachers share the support they are looking for. Parent/community section: this is where the community communicates ways they can support the school/students. Check out the current partnerships on the “Current Partnership” page. There are 6-7 testimonies of partnerships to date, as testimonies come in Nicole updates this page. If you have any ideas, “Like, Build, Fix” link.

Parent Teacher Conferences: Table for the CHS-CP group with a device to allow parents/attendees to sign up be a part of CHS-CP and share their interests.

Volunteer/guest speaker: If the teachers could be more specific about what they need, this would be helpful. How can you take a topic and maximize it with a guest speaker. Need to look at it from both ends: guest speaker and teacher. Asked to share your business story: pitfalls and successes. It was interesting to see the questions the students asked. A day in the life series…

Internship and Mentorship group: The group discussed the value of internship experience for our students. A student shared his experience with both internship and independent study and the difference between the two. Director Auth shared the value of the internship experience for our students. He shared that there is a shift for students to participate in an internship or a mentorship program as an expectation for the CTC programs. He shared how if we can identify one solid industry partner, this can help expand and bridge connections for our students/programs. We realize that the business world does not match up with the high school schedule, but we try to fit out world into your business world. Dean F. shared how his business supported internships and the importance of increasing these opportunities within the Chariho community. He shared the experience for when students shift from intern to employee.

It was asked how the portfolio fits into this and if there is a way to get rid of the portfolio. Ms. Spas shared that there is a committee that is currently working towards re-imagining the portfolio. This work stems from the leadership team’s shared vision of creating a “ladder to learner autonomy”. The goal is to build opportunities for students to become more self-directed and autonomous as they approach their junior/senior years. The intent is to allow students to be able to access more independent experiences their junior and senior years like internships, independent study experiences, etc.

Director Auth suggested that it may be a big lift to ask all teachers to share what they need, but to ask department heads to share their top 3 needs at a future meeting. Narrow the scope to 3 areas where you would like some mentorship. Dean F shared that when he was in school, they would go to the board. The group discussed that it may be helpful to have a virtual board.

Donna shared how it would take some thinking to determine what it would take to put together for an internship for a HS student. Donna shared that a shadow or mentorship program would work well at B2B Gateway. It depends on student interest. Dean discussed the importance of defining the difference between an internship and mentorship.

Chris P. shared that Community2000 could help by locating students who could be potential candidates. We need to better define what are our mentorship needs? How do we let the community know what our needs are? We need to ask businesses what are some of the experiences that you have that students could experience? It was asked if we are limited to Chariho for internships, we can extend to surrounding communities? Nicole is going to make a commercial for the departments?

Prepare RI: employer gets reimbursed 50% wages for a summer intern. What if students experienced job share opportunities where they attended 3 to 4, so they can get a sampling. Mock interview experiences for students