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Billw@projectAcademy.org | ||
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Company | Project Academy, inc. |
Main contact, email | William Wolfson; billw@projectacademy.org |
web site | www.projectacademy.org |
Mission |
The mission of The Project Academy is to advance the development in spirit and mind of students drawn from diverse cultural and social backgrounds and to inspire in them a commitment to the best self in the community, education and business world. To create a cultural system in our organization that supports the community. To be a leader in learning systems around skill training. To help make our students successful in life. |
Purpose
Howard Gardner: Becoming a whole person |
Our purpose is to see the value in a
class of young adults and move them to the next level for
integration into societal and business organizations
Our purpose is to make our community a better place for us being there. |
Vision/ Goal |
Achieve >90% acceptance rate in two years by our team members into the corporate world Be recognized as a world class pre-employment training organization in 5 years Be seen as an important community resource in 5 years |
Objective & Scope: End Results |
The objective of this program is to create a holistic learning environment that includes the needs of the community & businesses as well as the individual for a successful long-term employment. Our approach is to use project based learning while infusing life skills and mind-set thinking. The student will be a partner in the learning process.
The scope will focus on training skills and mind-set thinking that provides success in multiple industry sectors. We aim to create a new category of a “technician of the mind”; Who thinks like an owner and evaluates situation using question to open up new avenues of learning. |
Typical letter | Letter-1(Word); Letter(PDF) |
PDF description -04,1 | Provide a short, concise pitch of your solution |
PDF description -1.1 |
Describe the core components/features of your approach/solution.
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PDF description -2.0 |
Describe how core features of your solution apply to the "Areas of Interest" listed above |
PDF description -3.2 |
How is your approach to the problem unique? |
PDF description - 4.1 |
Describe how your solution serves retail and/or adjacent sectors. If it doesn’t, explain how it could our solution is perfect for retail work. |
PDF description -5.2.1 |
What are your key measures of success? What are the metrics you can share with us to demonstrate the viability of your solution? |
PDF description -6.1 | Who are your competitors or peers? |
PDF description -7.1 | Who is on your team? What is your team capacity? Why this team, and why now |
PDF description -8.3 | List and describe any key partners |
PDF description -9.1.1 | Describe they key ways you can help Project Academy |
PowerPoint Presentation | 9/25/2019 |
Walmart submittal | Walton Family Foundation Innovative Schools Program 2020 Pre-Application 12/2/2019 |
New Pre-employment PP | 11/27/2019 |
Tools/ Support Doc:
Link | Process flow, skills, classes(4 months) | |||
Link | Project Academy flyer- overview | |||
Link | Flow diagram of our process | |||
Link | Flow diagram of team process | |||
Link | Skills from con-over | |||
Link | Project Academy core culture | |||
Link | Ownership mind-set | |||
Link | Cultural engineering mind-set | |||
Link | Pre-employment apprenticeship program | |||
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Actionable advice for parents and teachers—CharacterLab |
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Link | life-skills-Macmillan-10232019 | |||
Link | Problem based learning | |||
Link | Dr Deming's 14 points | |||
Link | Agenda by Mike Hammer | |||
Culture | File Developing a team culture (Values, Norms ) | |||
Team | File How to build a group of people into a team | |||
Who we are | File Conversation between us | |||
Mapping | File Information gathering plus how they are connected | |||
Link | Tasks prior to starting the program | |||
Web sites with details of the process |
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It is the policy of Project Academy not to discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, national origin, color, homelessness, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability in its education programs, services, activities, or employment practices. |