Integrating Community Service, Career Readiness and Academic Success in Secondary Education

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Listen and learn : Panel

Dr. Jamie LaMonds
Brian Reeves
Kristi Scott
Learn about the implementation of a new honors program at Farmington High School in Missouri that required 100 hours of community service, 30 hours of a work internship and cumulative GPA/attendance requirements while eliminating traditional class rank. The program's goal was to cultivate skills for students' post-secondary success.

Audience:	Chief technology officers/superintendents/school board members, Teacher education/higher ed faculty
Skill level:	Beginner
Attendee devices:	Devices not needed
Participant accounts, software and other materials:	Google Chrome will be utilized. Will use a Google Slide presentation. QR code will be provided.
Topic:	Innovation in higher education
Grade level:	9-12
Subject area:	Career and technical education
ISTE Standards:	For Educators: Collaborator Use collaborative tools to expand students' authentic, real-world learning experiences by engaging virtually with experts, teams and students, locally and globally. For Students: Empowered Learner Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes. Students build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process.

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

The goal of the program was to solve a systemic problem of anxiety among our top students who were overloading on advanced classes in order to rise in class rank. As we explored systemic solutions to the problem, we also noted that our students lacked workplace readiness skills and were not community oriented. By implementing this program, we reduced student anxiety surrounding class rank, created real-world work opportunities for our students, and partnered with our community to foster service opportunities. During the pilot year, we had 75 students complete a 30 hour work internship and at least 70 students complete 25 community service hours. 47% of our high school students participated and completed over 6,000 hours of community service.

Outline

1) Discuss the problem of student anxiety associated with class rank and community dissatisfaction with student work preparedness,
2) Explain the development of community partnerships for service and work internships;
3) Analyze difficulties in transitioning from traditional class rank to this new Latin Honors program;
4) Discuss the constant challenges of continued implementation.
5) Future goals

Supporting research

Here is a link to the original proposal with the initial research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hv1To3cCwMFQ2EIokOneXt6MwxA-EMrRQk9i2hrjvf8/edit

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Presenters

Dr. Jamie LaMonds, Farmington R7 School District

Brian Reeves, Farmington R7 School District