Indiana Interdisciplinary Cooperative Coordinators Association

I wanted to add some stuff to the blog and there wasn’t room so I changed the layout a little.  Take a look and let me know what you think.

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I found these forms on the web and thought some might find them useful.  At least you can see how others are doing it.  Click Here

When it comes to learning, more and more students are heading to the virtual realm – even those still in high school.

Log on and learn – BostonHerald.com.

Came across this form that I thought some might find usefull.  It is in Word format and can be edited to fit into your program.  go to the resources page, click on other forms, the click on Work Term Report Guidelines.

Happy New Year

Ross Raguth
from Mid North Monitor
The Espanola High School Cooperative Education Program is a big success. That can be attested to by several former students, three of which all work at the Espanola Regional Hospital and Health Centre.

Co-op advisor and teacher, Dean Riggs, accompanied this report to the facility on Thursday, November 5 to talk to present and past students.

Our first stop was to meet with current student, Allison Schouten, who is in a placement in the hospital lab.

She is working with three staffers, all of whom took part in the school’s program before landing jobs in the lab at the hospitalm, in large part due to their past experiences with the program.

Rhonda St. Denis, the first former cooperative student to get a job at the lab shared her story.

“I first entered into the program back in 1999. I was in high school at the time and had two placements, one was the Espanola Nursing Home and the other at Bourcier’s Funeral Home,” St. Denis stated.

She also acted as an advisor to the two other co-op students she now works with when they were in the cooperative program.Tracey Dubreuil and Melody Kutschke both enjoy working there.

Kutschke joined the program and landed the placement at the lab in 2001. Dubreuil in 2002.

“What I found was I was happy with the placement right away, it became a very real career opportunity. I encourage any students who hear about cooperative education to give it a try, keep trying if it seems tough at the current time, you might just find your niche in the world,”said Kutschke.

Another thing that the girls all made perfectly clear was the program helped them with their training in college. All three stated they knew how to do certain tasks ahead of time when they were undergoing training.

Later the other two were hired for summer jobs at the lab, again in large part, due to their positive experiences with the program.

10. What do YOU want!!!???

9. No this isn’t the principal’s office. Do I SOUND like an idiot??

 8. Pest Control speaking….and which child is yours?

7. I’m retiring this year and don’t really care what your sillybutt concerns are, m’am.

6. Lunchroom speaking….No, the meat we served yesterday was not supposed to be green. Please call your child’s doctor.

5. Make Your Child An Honor Student For $100 speaking. May I help you?

4. HELP!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

3. May I call you back? The children are coloring quietly and General Hospital is almost over.

2. No I did not go to college. If I had, do you think I would spend every day in a room with your kid for a living?

1. CDC speaking….Yes, it’s true!!

Did you know that you can use Google to find books on a particular topic?  When you go to the Google home page, there is a menu in the top left corner.  The last item in that menu is “more”.  When you click on that a dropdown menu apperars and the first option is “books”.  When you click on it, it goes to the Google book search page.  Put in any topic and Google will find books related to that topic.  Next to the “Search Books” button is an “Advance Book Search” link.  Clicking on that link will take you to a page where you can enter more criteria for your search.  In the advanced search page, I put in the phrase “School to work” and limited my search to anything that has been published since 2000. It returned 1,432 books

You can narrow the search further by clicking on the links on the left that include books with a preview, full view, or public domain.

I thought it was cool.  Not sure where else I could go to find 1,432 references to the “School to work”

I know it is only September, but I am already looking forward to semester projects.  What do you do for a semester final in your ICE program?  I am looking for ideas!

If you have your own web page for your program, send me the address and I will add it to the list on the IICCA site.  include how you use the site to enhance your program.

I thought this was a good Idea.  5 different high school programs all work together to raise funds for their respective programs.  Read about it here