ATTACHMENT #13

 

A summary of all the ideas presented at our August 20^th Forum. The ideas have been organized according to strands and both proposed Fiscal Agents have built their programs from these results.

 

Building Community Connections and Service

 

Expanding Horizons through Extra-Curricular Activity

·                    Build a bridge

·                    Create school to school network of ideas

·                    Take field trips off-island

·                    Rocket club!!

·                    Start clubs with people of the island

 

Learning Through Other People

·                    Grads return to inform

·                    Student teaching

·                    Family preparation for the real world

·                    Adopt a friend:  high school students to elementary or middle school

·                    Skill building groups with adults

·                    Peer to peer mentoring

·                    Student led support groups

·                    Develop Big Brother program

·                    Foster family well-being

 

Filling the Student-Community Gap – Show that We Care

·                    High school volunteers for community tragedies

·                    Attending service groups

·                    Have fund raisers for local needs

·                    Welcoming committee

 

Project Learning, Skill Building in Association with Community

·                    Attract Americorp/VISTA community technology paying interns

·                    Entice project learning with compensation

·                    Childcare homework center (affordable)

·                    Students build affordable housing

 

Students Community Center (Connections)

·                    Recruit speakers for school from around world via video conferencing

·                    Songwriters support, copyright, etc.

·                    Coordinate a community calendar

·                    Venue for music or speech or poetry – open mic

·                    Teen community center cooperative

·                    Evening & weekend cyber-café type social & learning center for older students

·                    Online community creative arts & music

 

Connecting Students to Community Service Projects

·                    Complete island trail

·                    Use students to provide services for seniors & for single parents, using school district employees to identify those needs

·                    Research options for affordable housing

·                    Adopt a grand-parent

 

Community Involvement & Leadership

·                    Promote youth leadership in service projects

·                    Student on boards of non-profit organizations

·                    Partners students with non-profit organizations for project-based activities

·                    Teens run an after school program for younger kids:  make & manage budget, mentor, homework, coach

·                    Student involvement in community action meetings/activities/issues

 

Students Partnered in Community

·                    Local history project – collaborate with museum & long-time islanders.  Publish book and/or web page

·                    Facilitate the process of building and refurbishing computers and getting them to those who need them.  Also provide instruction for their use

·                    Task force to go to working family home and mentor

·                    Tutoring and/or mentoring others (in school, elderly, etc)

·                    Work with non-profit community in identifying needs, clerical tasks, and looking for collaboration opportunities

·                    Students create & maintain informational kiosk or reader board for visitors, especially road conditions, safety hazards

 

Students Seek Opportunities to Become a Working Part of Community

·                    Students teach technology

·                    Butter Cream Gang

·                    Volunteerism – teens è community

 

Student – Senior Link

·                    Create Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) – type program

·                    Tutoring mentors for young students

 

 

Bridging Technological, Age and Economic Divides

Reaching Out Further & Faster Through Electronic Communication

·                    Develop distance learning program

·                    Set up community resources website

·                    Computer communication community events

·                    Create a public interest research group (PIRG)

·                    Start a radio/TV station

 

Students Sharing Knowledge

·                    Teach ESL (English as Second Language) student’s parents language/communication skills

·                    Satellite classroom at library – homework help & resources staffed by high school students

·                    Home-based computer training & support for elderly & poor

·                    Students to help with computers in library

·                    Student-led computer workshops for teachers, retirees, parents, other students

 

Tech Support

·                    Provide non-profit tech support

·                    Collect & manage data

·                    Student technical assistance for computers

·                    Create data gathering student pool

 

Digital Divide

·                    Youth as tech mentors for seniors

·                    Teens teach computer classes to parents & senior citizens:  pay a stipend to the parent/elder to attend, provide child care

 

Students Involved with Seniors Using Technology

·                    More student involved with senior center/elderly (errands, yard work, transportation, reading, etc)

·                    Students help older citizens with online medical research

·                    Senior center technology workshop with teens teaching elders

·                    Intern with elderly assisted living needs

 

Technology Services/Delivery

·                    Students create & maintain community resource data base on-line

·                    Students develop & maintain websites for non-profits

·                    High school computer student with FHES student & families

 

 

Researching and Preserving Local Cultural, Environmental and

Historical Treasures

Learning – Teaching, Sharing History of the Island

·                    Guides:  history museum, whale museum, etc.

·                    History tour guiding (teens)

·                    Writing oral histories of elders on the island

·                    Compile history of the island!

 

Students Involved in Opportunities for Experiential Learning

·                    Island studio apprenticeships

·                    Travel & learn with experts

·                    Marine careers

·                    Kids mentors on & off island (big city) – less isolation, via email

·                    Learning experiences

 

Inquiry-based Science Projects/Internships – Class & Individual

·                    Research partnerships between students and science centers, such as Friday Harbor Labs and the Whale Museum

 

Special Projects

·                    Linkage to local research in the island’s environmental issues:  whales, sea life, plants

·                    Student technology project (electric car?) that serves the community

·                    Senior projects for groups

·                    Chart streams, ponds, fish runs, etc.

 

Participate in Environmental Research Projects

·                    Students research environmental impacts of island development (for a science class project)

·                    Connect youth with programs & businesses related to marine environment

·                    Mapping & research (noxious weeds, etc)

 

Oral History & Media Project

·                    Oral history tour guides

·                    Oral history project

·                    Work with oral history of Island (promote, sell CD’s, audio files, etc.

·                    Working with UW Labs – Natural history, historical tour

 

Cultural Connections – Telling a Historic Story

·                    Student led historical tours of the island

·                    Video documentary series on elders of the island

·                    Ferry ride into educational experience – techno map, touch screen island info, history, geology, etc.

 

Enhancing Business & Economic Development

Marketing Support for Local Businesses

·                    Provide & create website directory of people and expertise in community

·                    Expand & publicize farmers market

·                    Provide one-one business internet marketing assistance

·                    Help find markets for island-made products, i.e. online

 

Students Partnered in Business

·                    Work with business community to gather database of products and services available

·                    Reward employers that allow parents time to volunteer – to become involved in students’ education

·                    Internships in business & government

·                    Work with Economic Development Council (EDC) to identify resource network to help existing and new businesses

·                    Apprenticeships with skilled trades people

 

Business Solutions

·                    Build a project house

·                    Clothesline sale – “affordable art”

·                    Junior Partner program

·                    MadeintheSanJuans.com

·                    Internet dot.com “San Juan ebay”

·                    Island signage project

 

Community Communications

·                    Community web site for jobs needed, wanted, postings, info, statistics & info about our communities

·                    Student run radio/TV station(s)

 

Island Business Development

·                    Junior Achievement Program

·                    Alternative agriculture business research & development and sustainable energy development

·                    Develop island bicycle paths & hiking trails (tour guides)

·                    Create marketing company on web for “Island” products (amajuan.com)

 

Career & Work:  Student – Business Communication

·                    Start a mock company

·                    Connect students with experts, volunteers

·                    Spend a day in the life of a professional

·                    Offer airplane pilot classes, captain classes

·                    Drag racing

·                    A day to experience community businesses

·                    Re-introduce industrial arts programs

·                    Make trade programs available

 

Entrepreneurship

·                    Child care training & web-based babysitting business

 

Community Economic Development

·                    Develop proposal for tele-commuting center based on models in other isolated areas

·                    Create small business design assistance planning pool

·                    Hire more people to connect students with community needs & jobs

 

Business Internships

·                    Grant to support businesses to accept more student interns since these relationships decrease productivity

·                    Skill learned in an apprenticeship program & transferring these skills to non-profit organizations

 

Students Learning Business through Mentorship/Experience

·                    Marketing cottage industries

·                    Connect students to new agriculture businesses

·                    Business Club through Chamber:  revolving internships through WDC, mentoring program through Lions, Chamber, Kiwanis, finally entrepreneurial workshop: “create a business & plan”

·                    Encourage youth to gain many different work experiences

·                    Student network business for jobs

 

Learning Effective Civic Leadership

Student Involvement in Educational Priorities

·                    Student involvement in building programs to meet needs of all types of learners (balancing school district focus)

 

Students Involved & Engaged in All Aspects of Courthouse

·                    Internships projects, courthouse

·                    Government involvement non-neg. (intern)

 

Civic Participation

·                    Internships with town & county governments

·                    Active engagement in community government

·                    Work with county/town on community survey

 

Students Partnered in Government

·                    Semester class on local government, using the courthouse

 

Students Having a Voice

·                    Address youth issues in upcoming elections

·                    Send students representatives to community meetings

·                    Survey student body interests, problems and gifts

·                    Students go to community meetings