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Drop-outs,
Older Citizens
Soft skill is a sociological term for an individual’s
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and non-technical skills in
the work environment. It can be broadly defined as
personal attributes that enhance an individual’s
interactions, job and career prospects
Thinking Technicians ...
Developing people for the new economy |
Provide Life-skills that support getting and
holding a career. Provide the “Engineering Mind-set”
skills that support most job/ career activities and
work readiness skills.
Support people who are at their mid-career and
need to find another position.
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Pre-Employment Program
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Pre-Employment classes: ... 12 week
class description below:
8 Hr/day 5 days/week, Holistic approach
We build a core foundation for students to be successful
by using a unique approach of mindset thinking:
Connect
with the local industry & community organizations.
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High-School projects, Extra Credit activities-Capstone Project for student to solve community
problems while learning life skill (College & Career
Readiness Skills)
http://www.ccsso.org/Documents/2017/
ESSA/AssessmentModelsCCSSOLPI03162017.pdf
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The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) opened up new
possibilities for how student and school success are
defined and supported in American public education.
States have greater responsibility for designing and
building their assessment and accountability systems.
The law also broadens the concept of student learning,
requiring that assessments measure “higher-order
thinking skills and understanding.” It explicitly allows
the use of multiple assessments including “portfolios,
projects, or extended-performance tasks” as part of
state systems. States are also invited to apply for an
innovative assessment pilot to develop new approaches to
assessment and gradually scale them up statewide.
This follows the AP Capstone
concept.
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Behind the Organization ...
Full year program
Combines the following:
- Solving World
Problems
- Business Process
- Thinking Skills
- Design Process
- Personal Financial
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Much of the program is dedicated to learning life skills
and be able to understand and create business and
societal processes to support new business development
and operations.
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Solving World/Society/Education Problems
… Learning skills
Life-long learner
Problem
solving |
financial
literacy |
Self-control/Values |
Collaboration |
Process
methods |
Character traits |
planning |
Time management |
Study skills |
Stretch goals/ Risk taking |
Thinking skills |
Continuous improvement
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Entrepreneurship |
Innovation |
Decision making |
Learning from failure
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Business
processes:
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Design Process:
- Framing the problem, finding the
gap
- Research ... process
- Developing lots of ideas,
divergent view
- Critical view, converge the ideas
- Developing a paper solutions/
sketching
- Review and test ...
providing feedback
- Innovation/ entrepreneurship
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Decision
Making
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Thinking Skills:
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Life skills:
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Listening skills, empathy |
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Teamwork |
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Work skills, Process
management, Planning |
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Work ethic and professionalism |
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Dialogue/team … 6 hats, how to create dialogue
and not shouting matches |
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Respectful dealing with others ( Professionalism
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Executive functions,
character
development |
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Self/Social awareness, relationships, |
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Mapping skills and drawing |
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Decision making |
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Balance of life ( Play/Work/Health) |
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Problem solving |
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Presentation skills |
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Put aside 10% of your earnings
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Control expenditures
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Make the saving multiple
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Guard the saving
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Insure a future income |
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Personal financial
literacy:
- Become a critical consumer
- Planning, Cost structure
- Risk management
- Income, Spending
- Money management, Budgets
- Planning, saving and investing,
Retirement saving
- Stocks & Bonds
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Book-
The riches man in Babylon
by George S. Clason
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Overview
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Science literacy:
... The process
- Understand the hypothesis
- Organize your thoughts ...
graphic organizers (webs,
Venn diagrams, matrixes, concept maps )
- Drawings, graphs, diagrams and
modeling
- Decision making
- Research sources and checking
- Historical vignettes
- Thinking skills
- Measurement and feedback
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Around themes of books and
history The world
is flat... Tom Friedman
The tribe ...
Sebastian
Junger
Charlottes web
by E.B. White
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Short
courses include:
- Problem solving
- Collaboration
- Decision making
- Thinking skills
(creativity, critical thinking, questions and
reflection)
- Team work
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Finding the bug

Every problem is an opportunity; The bigger the problem
the bigger the opportunity.
"V. Kosla" |
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Learning life skills
and building a project plan for a new product
development
Why do I want to do
this project?
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It’s fun
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Make lots of
money
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See if I can do
it |
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Middle-school classes:
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Creating additional after-school programs
for middle-school students with a simpler learning
process (“playing the whole game at a junior level”…
David Perkins)
Focused on themes like Drawing, Improv,
Civics, Community, Research projects, Outdoor design,
Science areas
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Course Outline |
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