COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Partnerships refer to the cornerstone of a CTE program for student involvement in the community and workplace with local and regional businesses. Partnerships are also connections with all educational partners, including fellow teachers, parents, the community, organizations, and post-secondary institutions/faculty as well as business and industry. The following businesses support CTE at WRHS by serving on the Advisory Committees for each Pathway. 

Interested in serving on one of our pathways? Please contact:

Teresa Golden                                      

goldeter@usd437.net

Community Partners

Business & Industry / Advisory Committee

To maintain Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs that meet current occupational needs, CTE educators rely heavily on advice from business and industry. An important step in establishing, maintaining, or up-grading an existing CTE cluster/pathway is the organization of a local Advisory Committee.

An Advisory Committee is a group of persons outside the education profession, comprised of representative lay-people, recognized and respected in their own fields of work who advise CTE educators, administrators, and local board of education members regarding clusters/pathways, based on the employment needs of the community, state, regional, national, and international marketplace.

The general functions are to act in an advisory capacity for the development and operation of the CTE cluster/pathway.

Companies represented on Advisory Committees:

Advisors Excel

Countrywide Realty

Rebound Physical Therapy

Airgas

Cyrus Hotel/The Weather Room

Rural Pearl Studios

Allan-Coleman Marketing Solution

Global Atlantic Financial Group

Shawnee County Extension

Alliance Bank

Goodyear

Silver Lake Bank

American Family Insurance

Hawks Construction

Solo Digital Design

Associate Broker at Countrywide

Herff Jones Yearbook

Sprout Creative

Azura Credit Union

HME

Stormont Vail Regional Medical Center

Bettis Companies

Industrial Chrome Inc.

The Graphic Edge

Bimini Pet Health/Lifetech Diagnostics

InTouch Solutions

The University of Kansas Health System - St. Francis Campus

BNSF

KanEquip

TK Magazine

Chick-fil-A

Mars

USD 437

Chocolatey Software

Matheson

USD 501

Community National Bank

McCray Lumber

Triad Partners

Copeland Law

Meetings Simply Imagined

Washburn University

Cotton O'Neil Orthopedics & Sports Medicine

National Association of Trailer Manufacturers

WIBW