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Teaching a Bear to Dance. Student Services Coordination. Beware of Dancing Bears. If you teach a bear to dance, you had better be prepared to dance until the bear wants to stop. How Many Dances Does the Bear Know?. Career Recruitment and Advisement Assessment Intake Credentialing
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Teaching a Bear to Dance Student Services Coordination
Beware of Dancing Bears If you teach a bear to dance, you had better be prepared to dance until the bear wants to stop.
How Many Dances Does the Bear Know? • Career Recruitment and Advisement • Assessment • Intake • Credentialing • Enrollment Procedures • Full-time accredited • ACD (short-term) • Disability Services • Initiation, Update and Delivery of Student Records • Financial Aid • Interschool and Interagency Relations • Academic Instruction • Integrated Academics • Academics for High School Credit • Guidance Counseling • Career • Personal • College Alliances • Job Placement • Follow-Up
Dancing Among the Stars • Know which positions can serve which functions. • Know what qualifications are required by law. • Know the state accreditation standards and what practices are required to meet them. • Know relevant school law and ODCTE Rules. • Implement policies and procedures that are consistently followed for each function.
Winning the Dance-Off • Be a partner to your in-district peers. • Be a collaborator with your partner schools and cooperating agencies. • Become a data geek/freak so you can base proposals and decisions on information, not supposition. • Listen to your staff, talk to your staff, work beside your staff. • Know that everything changes – what you learned yesterday may not apply today and will certainly be different tomorrow.
When the bear gets the upper hand, Just wash yourself off, apply a little ointment, Call for reinforcements or reassurance, And go back and try it again. You really won’t get mauled every day.
Camilla Riley Chief Officer, Guidance & Academic Services Metro Technology Centers 405-595-4403 camilla.riley@metrotech.org (soon to be .edu)