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Project Name: Career Education Continuous Improvement Process Project

Team Members: Brad Hoesing, Trevor Hightree, Tish Hennings, Billie Graham, and Amber Endres

Project Description: Two Continuous Improvement Goals will be addressed: Student Opportunity Goal: Students will be able to expand their curriculum to incorporate the Nebraska Career Connections Clusters Model. Learning Opportunity Goal: Student will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge of career education through softskills training (K-3), Foundation knowledge and skills, middle school career education (7-9) and expansion into direct internship and immersion into their specified career cluster (10-12) Technology Implemented: (K-3) (4-6) (7-9) (10-12)

Team Meeting Format: As part of our school improvement project, this learning web team will meet in two formats:

1. Meet with district as a subcomittee in Wausa's CIP process.

2. Independently with Lanita Recob, as apart of the Learning Web Grant.

__Date__: June 11th-12th, 2009
 * //__Team Meeting Format__//**:

__Facilitator__: Brad Hoesing

__Recorder__: Amber Endres

__Taskmaster/Time Keeper__: Trevor Hightree

__Members Present__: Brad Hoesing, Tish Hennings, Trevor Hightree, Amber Endres (Billie Graham Absent)

__Goals of the Meeting__: Develop an action plan for the learning web project that ties directly into our CIP process, as well as formats to our 1-1 laptop initiative and Marzano's strategies.

__Reflection__: Discussion was held on Marzano's strategies, and the group reflected on utilizing Career Education as the model for learning.

__Discussion__: Ideas were shared regarding topics to consider for our learning web project.

__Action taken__:
 * The project was selected and our group created a rough outline for a K-12 career education curriculum model. The Group Determined that we would involve the entire K-12 staff and students in incorporating both tech, as well as career education into our model.

__Marzano Strategies__: Cooperative Learning, Intrinsic Motivation and Creating effort in students, Nonlinguistic Representation, and Collaboration/Cooperative Learning.

__Assignments__: Next meeting will be held on one of the teacher workdays/school improvement meetings at the beginning of the school year.