Best Practices, Volume IV

SBP Student Board of Directors

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Youth voice within the Anchorage School Business Partnership Program was taken to a new level with the first meeting of the School Business Partnership Student Board of Directors on February 5, 2002.

2002 Executive Student Board of Directors Chair: Meghan Humphrey Vice Chair: Debbie Ann Taitaiu President: Hellen Fleming Secretary: Morgen Willis Treasurer: Ginny Cress	2002 Student Board of Directors Coordinator: Roberta Williams Central Middle School: Drew Cason, Debbie Ann Taitaiau, Morgen Willis Mears Middle School: Rachel Warner, Vince Leininger Romig Middle School: Dana Hubbard, Shannon Jacobs Bartlett High: Hellen Fleming Chugiak High Jan Tomsen, Andy Mew, Kevin Vik, Drew Michael Dimond High: Stephanie Worley East High Josh Wilson, Kristen Oato Service High: Kelly Eldridge West High: Jenny Jemison, Esther Heo Polaris K-12: Hans Borchardt UAA: Ginny Cress, Meghan Humphrey, David Parret
The YOUTH Voice of Anchorage School Business Partnerships Middle school and high school students have served on the Anchorage School Business Partnership Board of Directors since 1994. The Board has enthusiastically supported an active youth presence with their assistance in speaking engagements, writing newsletter articles, as well as serving on Board committees. The Student Board of Directors became a reality after the National Association of Partners in Education brought its symposium to Anchorage in October 2001. The Symposium committee selected Josh Wilson, senior at East, as its first Youth Strand Chair; Ginny Cress, freshman at UAA, as the Vice Chair. These two enlisted other Anchorage School District youth to join them in a year-long planning session not only as participants, but also as presenters. Eventually, their hard work paid off - the sponsorship of Booz Allen Hamilton, strategy and technology consultants, brought youth from other Canadian and American communities to participate in the symposium too. Aim To provide youth opportunities to serve as communication liaisons for middle schools, high schools, and alternative programs grades 7-12 with the community.	Objectives To provide youth a meaningful voice in making decisions regarding school business partnerships and their career opportunities with the community. To ensure that youth are served by advisors to promote the highest level of learning possible through personal relationships and partnerships. To bring learners and business leaders together to launch, form and sustain partnerships that engage and enrich the community and improve educational and cultural understanding. To grow and mature the current School Business Partnership program with contextual learning, career exploration experiences, and leadership skills. To establish criteria, study data, and establish measurements of success by which all school business partnerships are measured. To explore academic and workplace processes and systems. To collaborate with a broad base of community organizations including businesses, civic and government organizations. To ensure the necessary resources and supports to launch and sustain long-term, effective partnerships. To develop management tools and strategies to improve learning and problem solving and to manage projects and processes.
“I’m really excited about the possibilities of the new SBP Student Board. With the strength of all these youth we can have one powerful voice…one that the teens in today’s community desperately need.” --Meghan Humphrey, Student Board Chair UAA student and East High graduate

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Please note: The information on this page is from the 2002 edition of Best Practices. The people, programs and contact information included were current at the time of publication, but may have since changed.