Mt. Washington Valley School to Career Partnership

Mount Washington Valley School to Career Partnership
"We’re not in the portal business, we’re in the business of making all the world’s information
accessible and useful." Eric Schmidt, CEO Google

Mount Washington Valley
School to Career
53 Technology Lane Suite 102
Conway, NH 03818

David Rudewick ,
Executive Director
603-447-2350

Partnership Schools SAU 9 SAU 9 School Boards SAU 9 Personnel Conway
Kennett High School Kennett Middle School MWV Career & Technical Conway Elementary North Conway
John Fuller School Center Conway
Pine Tree School Bartlett
Josiah Bartlett School Jackson
Jackson Grammar School

SAU 13 Tamworth
K.A. Brett School Madison
Madison Elementary Freedom
Freedom Elementary

Be kind and give in-kind.
Sign up to become a business partner. By working together we can share the responsibility and maximize possibilities. For just a few hours a year, a business can help by sharing time and talent to invest in the youth of the Mount Washington Valley. We need speakers for classes, mentors for students, representatives for job and trades fairs, hosts for job shadows and internships, and more.

Business Partner Interest Survey

Student Success Task Force
This report was accomplished through the efforts and commitment of many individuals who studied the research, the current data and patterns in the Mount Washington Valley and offered their thoughtful response to how the youth of the valley could be engaged and challenged in more effective ways throughout their school programs.

Student Success Task Force Recommendations

Four Camps for Summer 2008

Attention middle schoolers:

  Like to be outside in the woods?
  Like to build things?
  Interested in health care?
  Hooked on Technology?

Click links under each camp to get a description and application form.

Earth Force Camp: June 23-June 27
Health CSI Camp: July 7-July 11
Construction Camp: July 21-July 25
Tech Camp: July 14-July 18

Earth Force Camp
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Health CSI Camp
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Construction Camp
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Tech Camp
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Career Camps

Our 2006 Career Camp season is topped off with the inaugural Construction Camp sponsored by local businesses. During the week, campers built a dog house, practiced their wiring and plumbing skills, and built a couple walls for a Habitat for Humanity house.

A Strong America Depends on Strong Schools

America’s students are losing out. The world is changing, jobs are evolving, and far too many students are simply not being prepared to be successful adults:

Seventy percent of eighth graders are not proficient in reading—and most will never catch up.

Every year, more than 1.2 million students drop out of high school.

Compared to students in 30 industrialized countries, American 15 year olds ranked 25th in math and 21st in science.

Even America's top math students rank 25th out of 30 when compared with top students across the globe.

Many of those who do graduate are not ready for college, for the workplace and for life.
Ed in '08 and Strong American Schools

The Silent Epidemic - High School Dropouts

Why do a third of American high school students leave school without a diploma? What might help keep them in school, engaged and learning?

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funded a study to thoroughly explore this critical issue. Full Report

What might have kept dropouts in school?

81 percent called for more "real-world" learning opportunities

Sunday, May 11 2008

Ed in '08 This video has been viewed 360,000 times on YouTube. Click twice.

High School Dropouts

"In today's data-happy era of accountability, testing and No Child Left Behind, here is the most astonishing statistic in the whole field of education: an increasing number of researchers are saying that nearly one out of three public high school students won't graduate, not just in Shelbyville but around the nation." More

Digital Portfolios We can gain a better understanding of a student's abilities and accomplishments by simply looking at the student's work, rather than the abstracted final grade. More

Course for New World "The shift to knowledge-intensive industries highlights the importance and scarcity of well trained talent."

Ian Davis,
McKinsey & Company More

Exchange City Exchange City lets students apply and reinforce lessons learned in the classroom, in a real-world setting. More

MIT OpenCourseWare OpenCourseWare offers free course materials to faculty, students, and self-learners around the world.

The World is Flat Tom Friedman's book examines how digitized work has outsourced 1,000's of jobs to countries with highly educated workers who are paid a fraction of the cost of U.S. workers.
NYT Book Review

Brain Health Dr. Daggett's White Paper examining how brain research relates to Rigor, Relevance and Relationships by Dr. Willard R. Daggett and Dr. Paul D. Nussbaum

Makes connections between learning in grades K-12 and the expanding wealth of new information from cutting-edge research on the human brain. Read Now (pdf file)

High School Reform A White Paper from educational leader Willard R. Daggett Ed.D. addressing the What, Why, and How for changing America's high schools. Download (pdf)

Daggett Webcast "Academic and Technical Skills for the 21st Century," by Willard R. Daggett Ed.D. 78 minutes well spent. Windows Media Player

Astounding Google Factoid "This year, Google will sell $6.1 billion in ads, nearly double what it sold last year . . . That is more advertising than is sold by any newspaper chain, magazine publisher or television network," reports The New York Times.

Hardest to involve parents? "There is a group of parents whom we call the ‘hardest-to-involve’ parents. They are rarely involved in school activities, come to school only when there is a problem, and do not attend parent conferences on a regular basis.

This behavior often leads school personnel to assume that the parents don’t care about education or the progress of their children. Nothing could be further from the truth."

Willard R. Daggett Ed.D. Link

Webcasts connect kids to science, nature

Chicago gets $21M to retool schools

Stanford targets gifted high schoolers

AP: States omit minorities' scores

Free online courses teach tech skills