SECI presents CEC's Seamless Education Model

SECI Founder Russ Moore is shown conducting a clinic at this year's National Tech Prep Network annual conference in Orlando, Florida in October, 2005.

The clinic was titled, "Send Your School to Work: Make It a Partnership Run by Business," and Russ presented the history and elements that make Central Educational Center in Newnan, Georgia effective in raising student achievement, the perceived relevance of curriculum, the high school completion rate, and placements in either additional college or the workforce.

Using a participatory technique, the audience (including teachers, administrators, and business representatives from Oregon, Utah, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Ohio, Maine and others) decided that a few elements of the CEC model are familiar to them (needs assessment, charter school, "seamless" education and dual-enrollment - in blue), but MANY elements are completely new to them in an educational setting (in green), including a school developed through a community planning effort; basing the school on business needs; forming the school as a corporation; moving Career/Technical programs to the school from "base schools" in the district; creating curriculum using Backwards Design; having a school with a business culture; forming the school as an extension of the high school system, so it has has no "school number" and will thus never appear on an AYP Needs Improvement list; and giving all "team members" (students) a work ethic grade in addition to a course grade in EVERY class.

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