ASHLAND — Teachers, counselors, and administrators who recently participated in the North Central Workforce Alliance (NCWA) “Teacher’s Boot Camp” were feted along with their spouses at a banquet at Bella Bleu’s Restaurant in Ashland on Aug. 8.
A grant from the Ashland County Community Foundation funded the camp designed to help educators understand today’s industry, the needs of employers, and help them relate it to the ways they deliver education.
Acting as host for the event was Matt Miller, NCWA Treasurer representing the Ashland District of the Ohio Department of Transportation.
NCWA Executive Director Erv Howard presented awards to the businesses that had opened their doors for the camp – American Augers, Barbasol, Brethren Care, Charles River, the Ashland District of the Ohio Department of Transportation, Snyder’s-Lance and Mielke Construction that provided a presentation.
Jane Hunt, NCWA member representing the Ohio Soybean Council, spoke briefly and thanked the educators for their participation. Certificates of appreciation were awarded along with $250 for each teacher to use to implement their new information into their classrooms.
Handing out the awards were Matt Miller, Jane Hunt, and Erv Howard, along with Troy Snyder, NCWA President and CEO of Brethren Care, Inc., Ashland, and Ashland County Community Foundation Executive Director Jim Cutright.
The event closed with a testimony from Martin Yoder, Principal of Black River High School, who spoke of ways the camp stirred memories of his personal experience in industry and his desire to relate his camp experience to education in his school.
The NCWA is a business-driven partnership of employers from North Central Ohio whose focus is to share resources and ideas to solve common problems in attracting, training, and retaining the qualified and dedicated employees needed to grow area business. NCWA is working to: reduce turnover, increase productivity, reduce costs, and change perceptions.
