Summer strides

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The Oakland County Counselor Instructor Academy at Oakland Technical Center (OTC), Michigan, enrolls home school counselors in OTC summer school classrooms. The idea is to provide counselors with the entire OTC experience from a student's perspective, by seating them among the students. The course helps counselors become more familiar with OTC programs, providing them with a new understanding of the vocational-technical experience. With most educators considering technical education as inferior to academic subjects, the program can help teachers and academicians as well.

Analysis, Schools, Michigan, Vocational guidance, Vocational education, Student counselors, School counselors

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Winning Ways

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Rebecca Rhodes has won the Vocational Teacher of the Year Award for her program, Healthy Beginnings. The program tries to ensure healthier babies through prenatal care, nutrition and drug education. She has also helped in the development of family life curriculums. Rhodes is shrewd about grant writing, which has resulted in 15 grants for her school district since 1988. The 100 Point Club is a recent program initiated by Rhodes which requires students to put in 100 hours of community service.

Achievements and awards, Curricula, Family life education, Vocational teachers, Rhodes, Rebecca

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Act locally: a capital connection, in Washington State educators and legislators find common ground

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Local educators worked with state legislators to incorporate into a juvenile violence bill the funding for an ambitious program for high school dropouts in the state of Washington. Skill schools which were underutilized for vocational training, already existed. With the new funding available, they are now used in an Extended Day Dropout Retrieval Program as well. The youth violence bill will generate more than $13 million in funds.

Cover Story, Education and state, Social policy, Education policy, Training, Washington, High school dropouts

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