Indiana Interdisciplinary Cooperative Coordinators Association

do you have a “Student of the Month”   the year? 
News & Events | Region 8, Mid-Coast School of Technology.

This bill is in Colorado.  If it passes, will other state be far behind?
The long-awaited educator effectiveness bill, expected to be introduced within a few days, would set new baseline standards for the evaluation and tenure of teachers and principals but leave the details to an appointed commission and the State Board of Education.
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DANVILLE — The Danville High School Cooperative Education Program serves as a partnership in education outside the school walls, according to program supervisor Laurie Allison.“Cooperative education is a school and community partnership,” she said of the program she has supervised for 12 years. She also teaches accounting and computer classes.
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According to a February 10th article written by William Gillespie in Business Lexington, Stanford University professor Eric Hanushek claims that identifying and replacing 6 percent of a school systems least effective teachers can turn around student performance and have a greater and more positive impact than any other expenditure designed to stimulate economic growth.
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Anybody honor one of your students as “Cooperative Education Student to the Year”?  Thomas Stone High School in Waldorf, Maryland received valuable exposure by naming their student of the year recently.  Click Here for the story.

The same way doctors wrestle with “patient control” and lawyers boast about “client control,” and recruiters agonize over “candidate control”, Coop Coordinators struggle with “student control” when it comes to enticing students into the program.
If you look at recruiting realistically, you’ll recognize that you can not “control” the actions of another person. There are forces, [...]