Interagency Academy is a career-focused alternative school whose mission is to assist students in building bridges to community and careers.

Career assessment, research, exploration, and preparation and then community integration.

Career Assessment
  • Learning for Life Career Interest Assessment- this form generates some of the Career Speaker and Field Trips
  • WOIS Electronic Portfolio - www.wois.org

Career Research
  • WOIS Online research tool
  • Bridges Online Program
  • Seattle Public Library
  • Career Speaker Series
  • Career Field Trips

Career Exploration
  • Career Job Shadows
  • Exploration Programs - ACAP, DigiGirlz, Gene Juarez Career Explore, John Robert Powers, Digipen, etc
  • Career Internships:
    Unpaid Internship placement through preparation and motivation - refer to Readiness Checklist
  • Paid Career Internships:
    For the seriously prepared students there are some paid internshops that are designed to prepare selected students for employment and a career path.
    • Accounting - through ACAP - teenjobs.org
    • Microsoft
    • WAMU
    • SYEP

Career Preparation Phase I
  • Skills For Success
  • Applicaytion for Employment
  • Resume Completion - WOIS, Microsoft Tools
  • Cover Letter Completion - WOIS
  • Thank You Letter
  • Interviewing Skills
  • Attend Employment / Career / Job Fairs

Career Preparation Phase II

Linkages to Trades and Vocational Apprenticeships and Community College
  • Participation in Pre-Apprenticeship Programs
    • C'West - Construction Trades pre-Apprenticeship
    • City Campus / Tech Prep Courses - Health Occupations, Auto Technology, Auto Collision
    • XIP Program (IEP students) - Culinary Arts - NSCC, Mt St Vincent, SSD Print Shop, Landscape Program

Community Integration

5th Year Plan for Post High School
  • Vocational Technical Education research and exploration
  • College / University exploration through online research and field trips
  • Financial Aid support - Local and Online financial aide - visit NELA Foundation
  • Military Service exploration - Recruitiment upon request, field trips
  • Internship to employment

 

Career Exploration

Students interested in modeling as a career discuss options with the guest speaker.

 

School-To-Career Internships

Student intern, Heather Pigan, at Ponte's Seafood Restaurant with Tom Hollywood, Intern Supervisor.

 

School-To-Career Internships

Jonique-ca Darden, student intern at the Columbia Annex with Brenda Lewis and Ramona Jones, Intern Supervisors

 

 

Tanya Ransom at Swedish at Providence Hospital with Sheri Williams, Intern Supervisor.

  

Intern, Brianna Jefferys at DHHS.

 
 
Career Exploration in the Sciences
 

Environmental Science Program

Students work on a PowerPoint presentation for a Seattle Parks Board of Directors Meeting

 

Environmental Science Program

Class at work at the Columbia Annex
Career Exploration in Marine Science - Youth Opportunity AIMS Project
 

YO AIMS Project

Ebony Heller presents her final project.

 
 

Charles Linwood presents his final project.

 
 
 
 
 
 

INTERAGENCY PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

Creating New Pathways for Student Success

Deborah Moffit, Interagency Project Coordinator

Project Goals

  • Student Self-Discovery
  • Student Achievement of Standards
  • Applications for Basic Skill development
  • Portfolio Product
  • Service to the Community

DCM (Discipline, Confidence, Motivation) Langston-Hughes drama project.


Integration

  • Projects provide alternative ways to develop competency
  • Projects provide opportunities for other ways of knowing
  • Projects integrate basic, social and employment skills

Competitive Analysis

  • Projects employ Experiential Learning aligned to learning styles:
  • learning is interactive; students create while they learn from community professionals
  • Students have fun while they learn and produce:
  • assessment is asset-based, enrollment self-selective, motivation and self-esteem increased
  • Projects are on and off-campus in the community
  • community professionals mentor students in career interest areas
  • projects connect school to community resources and the workplace
  • a lternative vs. traditional learning strategies
  • interactive, relevant, performance-based
  • integration of the instruction models

Integrated active learning through the Environmental Science Program.


Technology

  • State-of-the-Art technical skill development
  • Marketable skills in the arts and communications and more
  • Standards in line with the district and state
  • Skill development in the context of real-world performance and production

Team/Resources

  • This is a group process and we will succeed only if we are all onboard
  • We need you and the resources that you bring to the development of projects
  • We need transportation from school to the project sites
  • We need support and funding from the A&S to the online classroom staff
  • We need off-site locations for some projects
  • We need the projects and the disciplines to be given the equal status

Student artworks on gallery display

 

Procedures

  • Students self-select at school sites by interest or career path
  • Students earn .5 occupational education credits for 90 hours in the projects

Schedule

  • Projects will be scheduled in the afternoon hours, unless otherwise stated