THE GLOBAL CLASSROOM
"If work is fun then education must also be fun . . ."
Classes and Syllabi
Adult "Transition" Programming
Mr. Bakke's class schedule 2010 -2011
Work Experience 1st period
Independent Living 2nd period
IEP Health
Consumer Math 5th period
Work Experience 6th period
Planning ahead:
For more information, please return to OHHS & OHSD
See the Wild Cat News (www.ohsd.net/ohhs/index.cfm) and click the Wild Cat Newsletters in left margin for news updates on success our students are having. You might even be surprised!
Special Olympics:
Contact Chris Becker at 678-3038. Participants must fill out a participation form on arrival, or go to www.sowa.org, forms.
For more info about WBL & CTE: go to the OSPI, use the top tool bar, click - Programs, Career and Technical Education (CTE) then Work Based Learning (WBL). Click on the Center for Change in Transition. link for to learn more about Transition.
Discover a new and exciting way technology is helping people with Autism in Esther: Best Practice
Cover face of Dream:
Jordan Carrier is my nephew, who overcame many obstacles. He graduated from Buthune- Cookman University (FL) on time while on a four year scholarship. His next goal is to play professional basketball with a European team.
Contact Information:
Woody Bakke,
WBL Coordinator,
Teacher, Case Manager,
wbakke@ohsd.net
VM (360) 279-5428
Suggested Reading:
Make the Impossible Possible, One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
Authors: Bill Strictland,
with Vance Rause
Have a great summer
Summer is time
to continue working on
your dreams and goals!
This page last updated
June 17th, 2010
Dream: Wild Cat TV tribute to MLK using students from
across our high school populations. Click on Jordan's picture, and the video will come up on Quick Time.
"If you forget your roots - you loose sight of everything."
Walter Payton
Welcome
This year’s goals are that students learn to have a vision, develop that purpose, and live toward those goals by actively engaging their communities. Our Vision, Passion, and Purpose is outlined below:
- Vision: All students have a more seamless "transition" into various aspects of post-high school community living.
- Passion: All students learn to develop & maintain the week of their individual lives "NOW," instead of waiting till after they exit special services and the school district - regardless of their graduation/ exit date.
- Purpose: All students learn to develop and maintain a living support network, which is active and vibrant in their lives before they graduate/ exit school.
Work Based Learning (WBL) is part of Career and Technical Education (CTE). One of the best ways to develop transition programming and post-school goals for students who have Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) is through WBL and CTE. The students: Juniors and Seniors, as well as Adult Students 18 - 21, are enrolled in Independent Living, Work Prep and Work Experience classes. Each student brings unique gifts and challenges. We are striving to establishing a network for students, parents, peer educators, community leaders and other stakeholders, as the educational community (of which we are a part) seeks to prepare students for greater indepenence in a diversified and complex world.
"You look at things as the are and ask, "Why? I dream things that never were and ask, "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw
Quotes we use in class
"Aim High"
"Fail Forward"
"Aim High - Dream Big!"
"To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weap is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvment.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To expose your ideas, dreams, and feelings to the world,
is to risk loss.
To life is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try at all is to risk failing.
But risk we must, for the greatest hazard in life,
is to risk nothing.
The man or woman who risks nothing,
is nothing."
Mary McLeod Buthune
Founder, Buthune-Cookman University
"Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
Thomas Edison
"It takes immense genius, says the novelist Edmond Duranty, to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see in front of us. But that kind of genius isn't beyond our reach. All we have to do is learn to trust the wisdom that is already in our hearts." Bill Stricktland, Making the Impossible Possible, p. 145.
