School-to-Work Coordinators

Workshop

Memory Lane!

Survey results

What have we Done? Successful initiatives Building a regional Wiki Implementation of RAVE

◦ Boys and Girls Career Education ◦ Enterprise education

Survey Results asked for Initiatives regarding Raised School Leaving Age so........

HOW has your school responded??

Reflections

List 3 things that are working in my school regarding STW◦ 1. ◦ 2◦ 3

List 2 things that are causing me challenges as the STW Coordinator in my school◦ 1.◦ 2

List 1 thing I would like more information on regarding STW◦ 1

3:2:1..... Reflection

The VisionThe vision for the School-to-Work Program in

Western Sydney provides a platform for:

the study of work across all key learning areas

the development of community and school-industry partnerships

a holistic approach to career education will closely align to teaching and learning programs.

enterprise education activities

development of students employment related skills

engaging all students in learning

Alignment with the State program and reporting tools.

Creating Partnerships through Vocational Learning

Whole School Responsibility

State Initiatives that are addressed;◦15-19 yr old strategy◦Boys Education◦Girls Education◦Building the Education Revolution

LiteracyNumeracyAboriginal Education & Training

Engagement and RetentionConnected LearningTeacher Quality

Office of Schools Priorities

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opportunity

healthycommunitylove

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poor moralesoul-sucking meetings

pointless emails

arse covering

silo distrustbureaucracy

blockage turf squabbles

burnout

stresswork-life imbalance

cynicism

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losing talentshaky funding

backlogbuck-passing

no time to think

politics

poor image

everyone‘s an expert except us

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vision

capability

barriers

What they say What is meant?

It’s always been like this.”“It’s like that everywhere.” “There are worse things.” “It’s not really that bad.” “It’s not my problem.” “It’s not really a problem at all.” “It’s complicated.” “It’s just the way it is.” “You can’t change it.” “I’m the wrong person to talk toIt’s too hard.” “It’s too complicated.” “It’s been done before.” “It’s never been done before.” “It’s not our problem.” “We don’t have the time.” “It’ll never work.” “We don’t have the money.” “We tried that, it didn’t work”

The problem is older than you think. It’s more widespread than you think.I don’t care about them either I don’t really care.I really don’t really care. Really. Everyone’s gotten used to it.Give up. I did. I’ve never questioned it.I didn’t change it. I’m too scared to even think about it. I haven’t got time. I just don’t get it. We did it half-arsed last time. No-one’s ever thought of it before. Denial is still our preferred strategy. I’m swamped just doing stupid stuff. People will block it for no reason. We blew our budget on dumb stuff.. We seriously stuffed it up last time

How can you instigate change?

Why not? What if? How about?

What’s the

500 year plan?Prove it!Cost? Benefit? Risk?

Where are the numbers?

What are the options?

Just Do It!Lead, follow or get

out of my way.

Are we there yet?

Find a way!

How could we do that?

What are the limitations?

Why not? What if? How about?

What’s the

500 year plan?Prove it!Cost? Benefit? Risk?

Where are the numbers?

What are the options?

Just Do It!Lead, follow or get

out of my way.

Are we there yet?

Find a way!How could we do

that?What are the limitations?

Why not? What if? How

about?What’s the

500 year plan?Prove it!Cost? Benefit? Risk?

Where are the numbers?

What are the options?

Just Do It!Lead, follow or get

out of my way.

Are we there yet?

Find a way!

How could we do that?

What are the limitations?

Why not? What if? How about?

What’s the 500 year plan?

Find a way!

How could we do that?

What are the limitations?

Prove it!Cost? Benefit? Risk?

Where are the numbers?

What are the options?

Just Do It!Lead, follow or get

out of my way.

Are we there yet?

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Why not? What if? How about?So what’s something no-one’s thought of?

Let’s try something different!What’s the next generation of this gonna be?

What’s the 500 year plan?

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“Why not..?”

“Let’s Rock!” “We can make that

work”

“Prove it!”

innovation

Exploring Career futures◦ Connected Learning◦ Teacher Quality◦ Engagement &

Retention

Planning Transition Pathways Aboriginal Education Connected Learning Literacy Engagement &

Retention

Strengthening Student Outcomes through vocational learning Literacy / Numeracy Teacher Quality Engagement &

Retention

• Building Networks• Student Engagement• Connected Learning• Engagement &

Retention

Making Connections

How do we do this??Start with some ‘thinking’ questions

• Is it time to rethink your Strategy?

• Is it time to rethink the Strategies Purpose?

• Is it time to rethink the Process?

• Is it time to re- prioritise your schools Barriers?

is it time to rethink your

Can we make it better?What cool stuff could we keep?

What do we need to add?What should we change?

What can we chuck? What’s the next big thing?

Strategy?

purpose?Is there something more important we should

be doing?If we stopped tomorrow would anyone care?

Or notice?

Does the world need what we do?Why are we doing this? What’s the point again?

is it time to rethink the Strategies

is it time to rethink your

Would a rethink of ‘how we do’ improve ‘what we do’?

Are our systems holding us back?Are we a good bunch to deal with?

What’s letting us down?Are we delivering?

Can it be simpler? Can it quicker?Can it be cheaper? Can it be more fun?

process?

barriers?Too much work? Not enough time?

Too many meetings? Not enough resources?

Not enough progress?Not enough clarity?

is it time to re-prioritise your schools

So ...Time to develop a resource that will suit your schools needs.

•The funding model in 2011 will be project based- remember that in your contemplation of a resource!

WSR Support:*Regional workshops in each of

the Office of Schools priority areas as support

4 Doors Planning

things we used to be able to

do and still can

things we couldn’t do

before and still can’t now

things we used to be able to do but can’t

now

things we couldn’t do

before but can now

4 doors planning

Can I do this by myself? If not who will I work with and how will I encourage them to work with me?

Who will be my school/ student target audience?

Where do I start?- the zoomerang surveyhttp://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22B3SS9NGN3 RAVE will cease to exist in its current form-

in 2011 regional coordination will be reflected through the funded projects.

Points to Ponder

Some project ideas!

My Future

The Real Game Series

Bullseye Poster activities iGreen

ABW

Job Shadowing

Enterprise Activities Market

Gardens

Cafe’s / Juice Bars Learning

4 Life

Guest speakers with KLA links

E- Mentoring

Guiding Circles

E-ME

Funding in 2011 will be on a project Based model.◦ Application form◦ Funding guidelines

Funding Model

Partnership Brokers Youth Connections

External Resources