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Thank you for your interest in the Excellence in Education Institute. Due to high demand, the institute is full at this time. Please complete the waiting list form and we will contact you if room becomes available.
To provide an opportunity for you to gain an understanding of businesses, organizations and cultural opportunities in the Cedar Valley, so you can share this information with your students.
Dr. Victoria Robinson, Associate Professor, UNI Educational Leadership, Counseling and Postsecondary Education
Leave this institute feeling confident in your ability to help students explore career pathways and connect to the workplace.
Learn to draw correlations from the skills you are teaching directly to jobs available in the Cedar Valley.
Forge relationships with businesses which lead to job shadowing opportunities, internships, apprenticeships and endless possibilities for students, businesses and teachers to collaborate more effectively in providing a highly trained, skilled, progressive workforce for the Cedar Valley.
Organizations in the Cedar Valley are enthusiastic about this institute and what it has to offer. They look forward to your participation.
Understand the Cedar Valley, its Businesses, Organizations and Cultural Opportunities
Understand Jobs/Careers, Workplace Practices and Personal Characteristics for Success
Understanding the Connection Between School and Work
Each day begins at Hawkeye Community College, Tama Hall Room 107B, 1501 East Orange Road, Waterloo. See map. Transportation to area businesses and lunch are provided.
Day One: Project Lead the Way
Engaging students in technology
Day Two: John Deere and Hawkeye Community College
Agriculture and technology
Day Three: Allen Health Systems and Covenant Medical Center
Highlighting careers in healthcare
Day Four: Advanced Manufacturing
Highlighting careers in manufacturing
Day Five: Cedar Valley Cultural Alliance
Community arts and culture
Pre-register by May 15, 2009. We will then send you a credit enrollment form to be returned along with a check for the $100 tuition.
Class size is limited to 50 and is first-come, first-served.
Greater Cedar Valley Chamber of Commerce
Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI)
Cedar Valley Cultural Alliance (CVCA)
Waterloo Community Schools
John Deere
Hawkeye Community College
University of Northern Iowa