Posted 10/06/2010 - 11:27:05am by Terry Nagel
Two papers from Civic Ventures help experienced professionals understand how they can help deliver services to young people, including working with schools to strengthen instruction in math- and science-related fields.
A New Equation: How Encore Careers in Math and Science Education Equal More Success for Students delves into a hot topic in education: how people in encore careers can help improve science, technology, engineering and math education. Author Elizabeth Foster of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future focuses on three individuals in encore careers to illustrate three model programs:
- Rick Marquart, a math teacher who coordinates activities for a NASA 21st Century Learning Studios program in a Maryland public school district.
- Alan Cleland, a mechanical engineer who is an apprentice teacher through California’s EnCorps Teachers Program
- Robert Abrams, a finance manager who is an EcO15 program facilitator
The report includes recommendations about how to attract more individuals to math and science encore careers, and how to make it easier for schools to use the expertise of these professionals more effectively. Download the paper here.
Beyond the Classroom: Engaging Boomers in Encore Careers That Help Students Succeed, by Michelle Hynes and Cal Halvorsen of Civic Ventures and Ellen Pechman of EMP Consulting, highlights four organizations that are using boomers’ professional expertise and life experience to help deliver more and better services to young people.
The paper explains how organizations are strengthening staffing for after-school programs, boosting high schools’ support for first-generation college applicants, expanding leadership for the nation’s largest dropout prevention network and improving the performance of education nonprofits and their overall ability to help young people.
The programs highlighted are:
- Aspiranet’s Encore After-School Initiative, which is helping to build a stronger after-school work force
- ReServe’s READY program, which uses encore talent to help New York City students go to college
- Communities in Schools’ Baldwin Fellows program, which engages experienced and emerging leaders to tackle strategic and leadership challenges for the nation’s largest dropout prevention network
- Civic Ventures’ Silicon Valley Encore Fellows program, which places experienced professionals in education reform and youth-serving organizations to build their capacity
The report also recommends ways to tap more encore talent to serve young people. Download the paper here.
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With a double digit unemploymen in many areas we have seen many young adults entering our community colleges and Technical Institutes.however many of these individualsnever even finished High school.Many of them forgot even what they learned before they dropped out.At a time when ther is plenty of work for just abouteveryone.
Now we see that many of them are the first ones to be unemployed
Many of them discover that they have a very limited number of choices of getting a job.They can end up to be a burden to their rlatives and collect unemployment compensation.
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I like to call on the seniors in the Manatee-Sarasota area to take a ride to the MTI campus and tell them you like to help.
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Klaas Lindemulder.Bradenton,Florida