I think developing a "continuing relationship with each student and in some cases, one on one mentoring" is probably the most important part of this and serves our mission statement well.
Right now we are only spending about 9 hours total, if they make all the classes, with the students. It may give them an idea of what they can do, but I wonder if it really develops their "academic, vocational, and entrepreneurial skills" and helps them "become community leaders". I think the only way for BWORKS to really fulfill this mission is for it to become a community center, to increase hours of operation, and to increase curricula. thanks, sean On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:13:55AM -0700, Steve DeLorey wrote: > BWorks Volunteers: > A Draft of the Strategic Plan which covers the next five years is being > prepared. In regard to our social programs, we need to stae as clearly as > possible, what we want to be doing five years from now, and how we plan to > get there. Please review the following draft. I sincerely solicit your ideas > and suggestions. Don't be constrained by our current resources. Think BIG. > > Future Program Plans include: > Enhancing our current programs. For instance, we want to be able to offer > free Internet access to our graduates for some limited period of time as we > have in the past. > In recent years BikeWORKS has served an estimated 100 youth annually. > ByteWORKS has served an average of 60 youth annually. This increased to 100 > in 2006 and 2007 due to our expanded classroom facility and volunteer staff. > We would like to continue to expand the number of children we serve. > We can do this by conducting additional cycles of our existing programs at > different times during the week or we can develop and implement new programs. > For instance, a program that will interest high school students, providing > them with marketable job skills and extending our involvement with them. > > > Historically, children who have participated in the BikeWORKS program have > then participated in the ByteWORKS program (and Vice Versa to a lesser > extent). This provides an intermittent relationship from grade 3 through > grade 8. We would like to make that more of an on-going relationship perhaps > by developing an after school program that involves tutoring and/or > mentoring. We would like to extend the relationship through high school by > developing and implementing programs that would appeal to that age group. We > would also like to develop our programs so that they include the parents both > as participants and as volunteers. > > > In recent years we have become aware of the fact that for many of our > students, their most pressing need is to improve their academic skills > particularly their communication skills of reading, writing and vocabulary. > We need to address this need more specifically in our existing programs and > in any new programs that we develop. This will require the development of > techniques for measuring both needs of individual students and the impact of > our programs upon them. It will require that we establish a stronger, more > continuing relationship with each student and in some cases, one on one > mentoring. > > Steve DeLorey > > > --------------------------------- > Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! > FareChase. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > -- My public keys: http://cowl.freeshell.org/fastmail http://cowl.freeshell.org/gmail Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:25:06 -0500
