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Stop Talking-Start Doing

July 24th, 2008 at 03:31pm Michael Cermak

The IBM commercials with Innovation Man are a hoot. They portray a middle-aged guy in a makeshift super hero costume going on about innovation. The commercial ends with the on-screen text, “Stop Talking. Start Doing.”

For the last year, District 205 has quietly been doing what it said it would do: start a career-focused high school. The Academic Career Education High School (ACE High School) will begin its 2008 school year with 55 adventurous sophomores interested in myriad technical and health care careers. A hallmark of ACE will be its attention to work-related issues like safety. ACE students will go through OSHA 10-hour General Industry training. Our reason: We want our ACE students to DO. And in order to do they need to be safe in work environments. We see it as “doing” our part to build a qualified workforce for our community.

So go ahead and click on the link for the Innovation Man spot and know that District 205 is poised for more “doing.”

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