In fact, students will be engaged in the renovation of their own historic building in the Carrollton neighborhood of uptown New Orleans. They will have the advice and counsel of Global Green to make the building environ-mentally self-sustaining and the National Trust for Historic Preservation with the goal of listing the building on the national registry.
Students will be mentored you employees of business partner companies across the region and will all have shadowing and internship opportunities as well as dual enrollment in college classes beginning in their junior year. Service learning hours will also be required so the students learn the importance and for the habit of giving back to their communities.
Link to the Priestley web site here.
Photos of New Tech High School and events on the left, including the school’s logo. The copy on the right.
Following the opening of school in September, 2006, School to Career will meet with the superintendent of the Louisiana Recovery School District, the Career and Technical Division of the Louisiana Department of Education, the Algiers Charter School Association and the New Technology Foundation of Napa, CA, to identify a site to target for established a New Technology High School replication. Once identified, the faculty and administration of that school will write their application for replicating the New Technology High School model and determine the career focus of the school. Concurrently, NTF and STC will work to secure the funding required to underwrite the technology and professional staff development required by the model.
The NTHS Learning Platform uses technology as the primary teaching and learning tool. Through project-based learning students apply the knowledge and skills they are learning to real world tasks. They also must work together on teams and assess each other’s abilities to collaborate, cooperate, and effectively produce an end result.
Professional development for the staff of the targeted school will begin in the spring of 2007 and continue into the summer and throughout the next two year. Official designation as a New Technology High School replication will be awarded at the beginning of the 2007-2008 school-year. Depending on the location of the school, the Algiers Charter School Association may seek to obtain a charter for the site, the school may independently seek its own charter, or it could be transferred to the New Orleans Public Schools jurisdiction, all in accordance with the determination of the LA Recovery School District.
Link to the NTHS web site here.
Photos of students in graduation garb to the left . . . different nationalities, sex. This copy to the right.
The goals of both PSAC and NTHS will be to integrate school to career strategies into the core curriculum, graduate EVERY student that enters the 9th grade, and for each student to have a plan for post-secondary learning in place when s/he graduates! Every option is open . . . a university, community or technical college, one of the military services, a training program such as EMT or electrical apprenticeship, or immediate work and on-the-job training. Whatever it may be, students will be encouraged to set foals for career advancement and to plan the path to achieve those goals. |
