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Tackling Curriculum
The Cleveland Clinic's Health eXpressions program fosters reflection and self-evaluation of personal health behaviors. Other examples of how employers are helping students learn include the following: * Claypool Electric Inc., Lancaster, Ohio: Greg Davis, the company's president and chief operating officer, serves on the advisory board for C-TEC, a local career and technology school for high school students. Each quarter, Davis and other advisory board members work with the school's instructors to update curriculum and include lessons that teach new skills and techniques being used in the workforce. * Westinghouse Electric Co., Monroeville, Pa: Several employees conduct a full day student workshop, called N-Vision, at South Fayette High School in McDonald, Pa., that addresses careers in engineering and nuclear energy. Students learn to apply engineering concepts by building paper bridges and towers. "Next year, I'll be taking a physics course that combines lessons from Westinghouse," says Steve Rossero, a high school junior who attended the optional workshop. * Siemens Transportation Systems, Sacramento, Calif.: The company created Experience in Motion, a hands-on program for fourth through sixth graders that teaches math, science and problem-solving skills related to transportation. Students in two local school districts have participated by building circuits, designing trains and creating art or writing poetry about the science of transportation.
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