Northeast Nebraska Career Education Collaboration First Meeting Notes

 April 16, 2015 at Tekamah Herman Media Center

8 Schools represented – Oakland-Craig, Lyons-Decatur, Tekamah-Herman, Pender, Logan View, Bancroft –Rosalie, West Point-Beemer, and Wisner-Pilger

Northeast Career Academy Goals

1.     Learn skills and gain hands on experiences that will give them an advantage when applying for college and/or jobs

2.     Encourage students to attend college and/or work in Northeast Nebraska

3.     Facilitate the process of students returning to the area to live and work upon college graduation

4.     Give students a head start in future careers

Revisioning Process – looking at Career education in Partnership of communities or in communities.  What do we need to provide in our schools, communities?   How can we prepare young people for 4 year, 2 year, Career, Internship etc.  

Great opportunity for what is happening with AQueest (new state accountability system) to participate in Re-visioning Process.

Nebraska ReVision Program $5000 grant in first year and then an Action Grant ($50,000 over a course of 3 years) to assist in the process.

All eight schools agreed to each apply for the $5000 grant and go through the ReVision process in the 2015-16 school year. After the process is complete, the schools can decide whether or not to continue working together and apply for Action Grants or continue on their own.

Possibilities- Working together to offer Welding and Manufacturing programs to high school seniors so that they are prepared to enter the workforce after high school graduation or continue on to complete an Associates Degree at Northeast Community College.