Information For:
YA Coordinator Planning Calendar
Suggested activities, responsibilities, and dates to help you coordinate your local YA Program.
August - December:
- Identify potential employers within an industry
- Explore options for providing Related Technical Instruction
- Educate
teachers, administrators, counselors, and school board members about YA
- Introduce freshmen and sophomores to YA as an elective option
- Develop and disseminate YA information/literature
- Coordinate with special needs teachers
- Establish YA application deadline
- Meet with potential YA employers
- Keep steering committees apprised of progress
- Ensure school boards have formally approved new programs
- Schedule employer mentor training
- Ensure YA is listed in high school registration materials
January - February:
- Review YA option with sophomores in course planning
- Continue student recruitment and presentations
- Provide informational sessions for interested students and parents
- Continue employer recruitment
- Establish YA application deadline
- Distribute YA application packets to students
- Plan year-end event for graduating YA students; invite students, parents, instructors, mentors
- Keep steering committees apprised of progress
March:
- Firm commitment with employers; identify mentors; share Skill
- Follow up YA student application process
- Screen YA applicants for eligibility
- Coordinate with employers to set up group or individual interviews
- Arrange for interview information and practice sessions for YA applicants
- Finalize delivery of Related Technical Instruction details
- Establish YA student salary policy and evaluation tools
- Develop YA student evaluation process
- Plan year-end event
April - May:
- Submit YA Program Application
- Coordinate interview process
- Notify YA applicants of interview results
- Arrange for completion and signing of Education/Training Agreement (ETA)
- Prepare and collect Student Registration (form) and Curriculum Map or Program of Study
- Review all documents for the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD)
- Coordinate student work and class schedules
- Collect and submit completed Skill Standards Checklists for graduating YA students
- Hold year-end event; arrange for media coverage of events
June - August:
- Schedule orientation for new YA students and parents
- Send required documentation to DWD
- Deliver employer mentor training
- Ask employer to prepare other employees for YA students
- Identify and recruit industries for new or updated YA programs
Ongoing:
- Work with local technical colleges and universities to articulate advanced standing or transcript credit agreements
- Schedule regular Progress Review meetings with YA students, mentors, and parents
- Conduct evaluations regularly