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| High School with Post-Secondary Linkage: Student Achievement through Career Pipelines, College Access and Career Readiness. |
| Panelist Bios |
| Jessica Brown |
| Jessica K. Brown, Director of the College Access and Career Readiness (CACR) Program: Jessica has worked with the Netter Center for four years. She is a recipient of a M.S.Ed from Penn’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) in the Higher Education Management Program with a concentration in college access and retention issues for inner city minority students. Jessica has successfully created and implemented the CACR Program based on her research conducted while attending GSE. In addition, the CCP sessions, amongst the Netter Center’s biggest accomplishments this year, have proven to be successful in the following areas: over 90% attendance at every CCP session, students have proclaimed the sessions to be very useful in helping make more educated and informed choices in everyday life, and students have stated the sessions encouraged them to take attending college seriously. Jessica received her BA in English and Sociology from Lehigh University and was born and raised in Philadelphia. |
| Tyler Holmberg |
| Since graduating from Muhlenberg College with a BA in Environmental Studies, Tyler has had extensive involvement in the fields of youth development and education reform. His experiences include: Teaching as fellow at Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center, Public Allies and Habitat for Humanity AmeriCorps member, Philadelphia Teaching Fellow, spearheading and supervising the PYN carpentry crew worksite, College and Career Access Academic Coordinator and most recently as the director of Health Promotion at Sayre High School. His work with Educational Pipeline in 2008-2009 as the director of the Penn-Sayre partnership provides a foundation to create the sustaining partnership that engages students from both Penn Medical school, nursing schools and Sayre High school. |
| Kim Piper |
Kim Piper is the School Redesign and Community Liaison for Will Rogers High School. Previously, Kim was an English teacher for six years. Kim received her BA in Education in 2002 from Northeastern State University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. In May 2009, she received her MA in Educational Leadership from the University of Oklahoma. Kim is also the recipient of the 2009 Oklahoma University Outstanding Graduate Student and the 2009 Charles Schusterman Award of Excellence. |
| Melissa Venable |
| Since graduating from Northeastern State University with a BS in Biology, Melissa has been involved in the field of education and education reform. Melissa has been a science educator at Tulsa Public Schools and Broken Arrow Public Schools, and works full time in educational reform as a Small Learning Communities Coordinator at Will Rogers High School on the implementation of the University-Assisted Community Schools Model. Currently she is collaborating with the OU Center for Community Engagement in development of university pipelines, as well as working with the community served by Will Rogers in developing future career-focused courses as well as internship opportunities in the areas of Community Health and Social Justice. |
| Moderator: Kevin Burr Area Superintendent for High Schools Tulsa Public Schools |