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Healthy Starts: Connected Families & Stay-N-Play
Vision: For all families with children ages 0-5 have easy access to the resources they need to ensure their children are ready for and able to excel in school.
College & Career Readiness
Vision: An engaged school and community culture aligned to ensure students are college ready, career ready, and life ready.
Academy Expo
Vision: All students will be engaged and prepared for placement in post-secondary education and training for employment.
Capstone
Vision: The Academies of Rockford challenges our students to change our world through challenging capstone projects that explore their personal skills and growth, develop career minded work ethic, prepares students for collegiate studies, and formulates real world knowledge for life experiences.
Curriculum Design Support
Vision: Process that connects K-12 curriculum to community resources relevant to college, career, and life
Job Shadow/Internship
Vision: All Juniors experience a real-world/hands-on job shadow/internship opportunity within their Academy that fosters relationship building among students, teachers, and employers.
Industry Council – Public Safety
Mission: The development of an on-ramp for elementary and middle school students providing them career awareness experiences to grow excitement and knowledge of careers that exist within the Rockford Police Department; the development of robust experiences within the HPS Academy/Law and Public Safety pathway; provide high school students with work-based learning experiences directly connected to careers within the City of Rockford Police Department resulting in college credits and industry certification.
Vision: The coordination of this work will reap long-term rewards for the City of Rockford, growing talent from within, and providing a sustainable way to satisfy a long-term need for employees. Homegrown talent from within the Rockford Public Schools will ensure continuity of services and a continuous supply of high-quality and interested recruiting prospects
Industry Council – Fire Science
Mission: The development of an on-ramp for elementary and middle school students providing them career awareness experiences to grow excitement and knowledge of careers that exist within the Rockford Fire Department; the development of robust experiences within the HPS Academy; provide high school students with work-based learning experiences directly connected to careers within the City of Rockford Fire Department resulting in college credits and industry certification.
Vision: The coordination of this work will reap long-term rewards for the City of Rockford, growing talent from within, and providing a sustainable way to satisfy a long-term need for employees. Homegrown talent from within the Rockford Public Schools will ensure continuity of services and a continuous supply of high-quality and interested recruiting prospects