How the Program Works

• Some partnerships are simple one-time, one-class/school visits. Others involve periodic or regular visits to classrooms/schools or even semester or academic year-long collaborative ventures.
• Community partners may host youth internships for individual students at their workplace. Or, they may host a career tour or career chat to demonstrate how classroom learning connects to the real world.
• 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.

Do you want to share your knowledge and help students explore careers?

West Linn High School and Wilsonville High School have numerous CTE programs available. CTE programs help students gain knowledge and industry-relevant skills. An important component of CTE is to connect high school students and teachers with industry experts.

There are five main ways a partner with high school CTE programs:

1. HOST - a skill-based youth internship at your organization (a 30 hour commitment).
2. MENTOR - students working on class projects or participating in CTE related clubs (5-10 hour commitment).
3. CHAT - with students about your career  (a 1 hour commitment).
4. LEAD -  a career tour at your workplace (1 hour commitment).
   
5. ADVISE -  teachers on the skills and knowledge students need to be prepared for your industry (1 hr, 1-2 times a year)

We would like to thank the below partners for helping strengthen our Career & Technical Education (CTE) programs.

CTE ADVISORY PARTNERS

Thank you to the following individuals/organizations for providing CTE guidance/support to our teachers.

Business/Marketing

• Allium Financial- Scott Thompson

• Clackamas Workforce Partnership- Samir Randolph

• City of Hillsboro- Beatriz Medal

• Digital Trends- Wriik Maui

• Legal Shield- Mike Bishop

• Louis Taylor- WLWV School Board Member

• Saatchi & Saatchi- Melissa Rosales

• Wilsonville Chamber of Commerce- Kevin O'Malley

• West Linn Chamber of Commerce- Kim Bria

Construction/Architecture

• BRIC Architecture- Karina Ruiz

• Build it Brothers- Larry Lowery

• Clackamas Community College- Tiffany Kriesel

• DIRTT Environmental Solutions

• Double J Construction Inc- Shawndra Horn

• Home Builders Foundation-Teresa Spangler

• I& E Construction- Cory Riedel

• Paulsons Flooring- Mason Wall

• Tim Woodley- retired WLWV Director of Operations

• Quail Homes- Jon Girod

Digital Arts and Art Production

• Elliot Lewis

• Hometown Sports- Joe Monahan

• Jesse Armour Photography & Design

• Kohls- Marco van Hylckama

• Netflix-Ty Johnson

• Nike- Justin Amago, Kelly Fagan Anderson, Nate Dy

• Robyn Myers

• ShadowMachine- Riley Thompson

• SketchUp- Salvatore Reda

• Something Blue Photography- Denyce Weiler

• Victor Benites

Engineering/Computer Programming

• Applied Materials- Lee Sousley

• Collins Aerospace- Carlo Tiana and Cory Medford

• Culbertson Design- Phil Culbertson

• Infineon- Butch Griffin

• Jim Jensen

• Lam Research- Marshall Stowell and Tyler Stauss

• Nike- Joe Gault

• Phoenix Technologies- Tom Sommerville

• Siemens- Stuart Friedberg

• Verizon- Tim Bennington-Davis

• Zapproved- Phillip Kerman

Journalism

• Ampere News- Kerry Tomlinson

• Herff Jones- Carly Langdon

• KGW News- Drew Carney

• KOIN News- Michaela Bourgeois

• Lets Glow Productions- Jahlysa Azaret

• Pamplin Media West Linn Tidings- John Schrag and Patrick Malee

• Oregonian-Tim Brown

• West Linn Chamber of Commerce- Shatrine Krake

Health Occupations

• Cascade Cardiology- Dr. Maziar Azadpour

• Marquis Senior Living-  Katy Zahrte

• Oregon Academy of General Dentistry- Erin Kane

• ROC Orthopedics- Dr. Jeff Feinblatt

• Rose Linn Care Center- Brady Waldroff

• Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue- Steven Partain

Natural Resources

• Bob Carlson- Retired CREST Director

• Clackamas River Basin Council- Eric Butler

• Clackamas Soil & Water Conservation District- Cathy McQueeney

• Clark College- Steve Clark

• City of Portland Parks- Laura Guderyahn

• Friends of Trees- Aliesje King

• Little Prince Nursery- Mike Hicks

• Northshore- Mitch Dec

• Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife- John Cox

• US Fish & Wildlife- Jeff Dillon

PAST INTERNSHIP HOSTS

• City of West Linn Parks & Recreation

• Clackamas River Basin Council 

• Clackamas Workforce Partnership 

• Engaging Local Government Leaders 

• Kids First Pediatric Clinic

• Metro Native Plant Center 

• Oregon City Farmers Market 

• Oregon Institute of Technology 

• PAWs Animal Shelter

• Sundstrom Clinical Services

• Wilsonville Public Library 

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MENTORS

We would like to thank the mentors below for providing support and feedback to students. Mentors worked with students in FIRST Robotics Competition, during class projects, or during their internships.

• Applied Materials- Lee Sousley

• Charlie Hyman Photography

• Comcast- Butch Griffin

• Corrie Coston Photography

• Infineon

• Kim Elliott Photography

• Greater Oregon City Watershed Council

• Lam Research- Marshall Stowell

• Metro Recycling

• Nancy Steele Photography

• Phoenix Technologies- Tom Sommerville

• Siemens

• The Nature Conservancy 

• Verizon- Tim Bennington-Davis 

CAREER TALK AND CAREER TOUR PARTNERS

Thank you to the individuals and organizations below for presenting to high school students about your industry.

• 52 Limited- Elaine Hsieh (Marketing)

• Adam Spencer (Videography)

• Advance Sports & Spine

• Advance Dental Arts

• Alex Nolan- (Industrial Design)

• Andre Hernandez (Video Game Developer)

• City of Lake Oswego- Alicia Garrison (Emergency Services)

• City of Portland- Charlie Nappi (Natural Resource Management)

• City of West Linn- Jerry Gabrielatos (Government Services)

• Clackamas County Water Environment Services- Gail Shaloum- (Environmental Science)

• Clackamas River Basin Council- Suzi Cloutier (Environmental Outreach)

• Collins Aerospace- Cory Meford (Engineering)

• Consolidated Metco- Alex Liu (Engineering)

• Do Design- Desiree Ong

• Dr. Lindsay Sparks- (Healthcare)

• Engaging Local Government Leaders- Kirsten Wyatt (Finance and Non-profit management)

• Hi-School Pharmacy

• Jimmy Nguyen- (Industrial Design)

• JH Kelly -Joel Joiner (Project Manager)

• Josh Farmer- (Video Game Design)

• Kaiser Permanente - (Healthcare)

• Lam Research- Tyler Stauss, (Electric Engineering)

• Lance's Superior Auto Center- Lance Griffin (Automotive Services)

• Machine Sciences- (Manufacturing)

• Nike- Jonathan Beales (Design)

• Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife- John Cox and Kevin Rybacki (Fish Biology) 

• Portland General Electric

• Providence Home Health- (Healthcare)

• Sal Reda (Graphic Designer and UIUX Designer)

• United States Fish and Wildlife Service- Todd McKinney (Environmental Outreach)

• Wriik Maui (Digital marketing)

If you are interested in exploring CTE partnership opportunities, please contact Laura Nappi, (503) 673-7000 ext 4635, email NappiL@wlwv.k12.or.us

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
• Hundreds of articles have been published in The Oregonian, West Linn Tidings, and Wilsonville Spokesman newspapers about Community Partnerships events and programs
• 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