Education & Training

Vision 2020: The New River Valley provides a cooperative educational system with quality personal, professional, and technical education for all citizens of the region.

Goal: To create an educational system for the New River Valley that transcends district

lines to maximize available resources and eliminate inequity.

Strategy: Use multi-media technologies in the classroom to share instructional delivery

and access to information throughout the region.

Strategy:Allocate resources equitably to ensure that students from all economic and

basic skill groups in school are prepared, encouraged, and ready to learn.

Goal: To have a positive, supportive, and successful climate where students are ready

and able to learn.

Strategy:Encourage students, parents, teachers, and administrators to develop shared

solutions for problems.

Strategy:Realign local resources into early childhood development programs (i.e.,

Head Start and Even Start).

Strategy:Identify and address potential barriers and opportunities for learning through

need and ability screening (e.g., learning disabilities, medical problems, nutritional

deficiencies, high aptitude areas, student defined learning aids, etc.).

Strategy:Achieve a crime-free and drug-free environment in our schools.

Strategy:Encourage all students to achieve and excel according to their abilities.

Goal:To maintain open communication between the schools and the public regarding

the importance of education and the needs and accomplishments of local school

systems.

Strategy:Educate voters and elected officials regarding the roles and duties of school

boards in the New River Valley.

Strategy:Use local public access TV, print media, and other approaches to promote

school needs and accomplishments and the importance of education.

Goal:To improve the Industry / Education interface at all levels.

Strategy:Provide students with more "real world" learning opportunities in order to

prepare them to compete in a global economy.

Strategy: Expand mentoring and "shadow" programs.

Strategy: Establish partnerships between industry/business and schools to promote the importance of skill development and inform educators

of the skills needed.

Strategy: Seek a closer partnership between industry leaders and educators

to design traditional and vocational programs.

Goal: To increase literacy rates among the region's children and adults.

Strategy: Expand programs to teach basic literacy skills.

Strategy: Offer more on-site training opportunities to local businesses and

industries.

Goal: To create life-long learning opportunities for New River Valley residents.

Strategy: Expand educational curriculum and operating hours to offer non-

traditional students educational opportunities to meet the needs of

all of the region's residents.

Strategy: Provide affordable, diverse, and accessible continuing education

opportunities.

Goal: To train the potential labor force and re-skill economically displaced workers for

higher productivity in the 21st Century economy.

Strategy: Train managers and workers to meet the current and future

challenges of a competitive marketplace.

Strategy: Expand existing corporate training and professional development

programs.

Strategy: Develop a "one stop career shop" based on the economic

opportunities of the region and geared to providing skills and

assistance necessary to compete in the global marketplace.

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Last Edited: 1-25-01