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Community Partnerships

Community Partnerships

The West Linn-Wilsonville School District Community Partnerships Program enriches K-12 curriculum by linking teachers and students with the world outside of the classroom.

It helps answer the perennial student questions:

"Why are we learning this?"

"What good will come of this learning?"

 
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How the Program Works

Comm Partners Process

  • Some partnerships are simple one-time, one-class/school visits while others involve periodic or regular visits to classrooms/schools or even semester or academic year-long collaborative ventures.

  • Community partners may host individual students at their work place for career exploration or host a class field trip to demonstrate how classroom subject matter is directly applied in their jobs or hobbies.

  • Community Partnerships refers reading and academic volunteers to district schools for year-long weekly one-on-one mentoring with students in grades 1-12.

  • Anyone can suggest a partnership and lend a hand in forming them.

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Program Awards & Recognition

The West Linn-Wilsonville School District Community Partnerships Program has received the following awards and recognition:

  • 1997 Business Education Compact School District Achievement Award (for best innovative curriculum enrichment volunteer program in the Portland-Northwest Oregon-Southern Washington Region)

  • 2002 Business Education Compact School District-Business Award (shared with Mentor Graphics as best school-business collaborative venture program in the Portland-Northwest Oregon-Southern Washington Region)

  • US Department of Education Northwest Region "Innovative Practices in Education" recognition

  • Over a hundred articles in The Oregonian, West Linn Tidings, and Wilsonville Spokesman  newspapers about Community Partnerships events and programs since 1994

  • Featured in several of Portland's KATU-TV school news broadcasts

  • Many Partnerships Programs have been filmed for local access TV to share with the entire community

  • Program coordinator has been a featured speaker at several regional educational curriculum enrichment conferences and school-business cooperation seminars