Tulare County Office of Education

Tulare County School-to-Career
Project and Program Update

School-to-Career Focus

STC evaluation and data collection
State and regional dissemination of STC project information
Local assistance to new and emerging programs
Development of staff and resources for continued program development

Projects

Learning and Doing
Project/Problem Based Learning

While many professional development opportunities for educators involve interaction and learning within the academic community, the work-based nature of school-to-career necessitates a greater emphasis on learning activities that incorporate workplace and industry themes in cooperation with local business. Learning and Doing combines teacher visits to the workplace with the development of real-world student research projects that can be incorporated into classroom activities.

Beyond the Farm

Beyond the Farm expands and enhances the development of agriculture education material, tools and outreach through an innovative School Garden Mobile Learning Center. The project supports the material, supplies, professional services and outreach needed to produce and disseminate age-appropriate, standards-based curriculum and School Garden services to all local schools and more than 94,000 students in the Tulare County area.

Beyond the Farm further develops a teacher-driven project model that integrates Ag in the Classroom, California Ag literacy standards and other specific curricular resources. An assortment of Ag Science Education and literacy support mechanisms will ensure an integrated, standards-based, set of activities for Tulare County students.

Project partners include Tulare County Farm Bureau, College of the Sequoias and the Kellogg Foundation funded Central California Food and Fiber Futures (CF3) Program.

For other agriculture-based learning resources, click the Agriculture icon to the right.

Health Care Alliance

The Health Care Alliance project expands health career projects in the area and builds upon the collaborative academic and career course work needed for today's allied health environment. Working with industry and education partners the College of the SequoiasTech Prep Consortium has invited successful K-12 health career pathway and academy sites to partner with the COSAllied Health Programs and the Alliance to expand articulation, develop courses and co-enrollment programs that meet a diversified and expanded set of health-related occupations.

For more information, visit the Health Care Alliance website at www.cos.edu/hca.

Team Horizons

This project provides student access to technology related careers and projects through Southern California Edison's Agriculture Technology Application Center (AgTAC) in Tulare. In conjunction with local high schools and community-based training programs, this project provides resources to build student learning models for technology-based agriculture and industrial career paths.

For other agriculture-based learning resources, click the Agriculture icon to the right.

Youth Connections

With the implementation of the Workforce Investment Act and on-going development of the Tulare County Youth Council, partners have increasingly looked towards activities and services that leverage school and workplace skill development for at-risk youth. The Youth Connections project provides resources to help community-based and school-based training programs implement coordinated service strategies to help youth meet the demands of 21st century careers.

Project partners include the Tulare County Workforce Investment Board Youth Council.

Randy Wallace, Project Director
phone: (559) 733-6101
fax: (559) 737-4378

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Tulare County School-to-Career Project and Program Update

Tulare County School-to-Career
Project and Program Update