Community Partnerships
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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
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 individual students at their work place for career exploration. Or, they may host a class field trip to demonstrate how classroom subject matter is directly applied in their jobs or hobbies.- 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 individual students at their work place for work based learning/youth internships. Or, they may 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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Hosting Partners
We would like to thank the below community partners for hosting high school youth in a work-based learning/internship experience this summer. Each organization listed below is hosting one or more students at their organization. This provides a valuable opportunity for students to gain introductory work experience, explore a career path, and earn high school credit (called Internship Experience).- City of West Linn Parks & Recreation
- Clackamas River Basin Council
- Clackamas Workforce Partnership
- Metro Native Plant Center
- Oregon City Farmers Market
- Oregon Institute of Technology
- PAWs Animal Shelter
- Wilsonville Public Library
Mentors
We would like to thank the below mentors for providing guidance to students during their photography internships.Supporters
We would like to thank the following businesses/organizations for loaning materials or providing other support to summer interns.This summer students are gaining experience in the following career areas:
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION COMMUNICATIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE HORTICULTURAL SCIENCES
MARKETING PHOTOGRAPHY
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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
- 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
