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Business Advisory Council

Goals of the ESCLEW Business Advisory Council

  1. To provide guidance to area school districts on economic changes and job market challenges and opportunities.
  2. To support schools in embedding critical employment/life skills students will need to succeed in business and industry such as reliability, critical thinking, communication, and time management. 
  3. To create or align curriculum that will introduce and reinforce critical employment skills needed in business and industry on local, regional, state and national levels. 
  4. To develop relationships between education and business that will provide a sustainable well-trained workforce.
  5. To promote work-based learning opportunities as defined by the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce to include the following:  job placement, pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship, remote or virtual placement, entrepreneurship, school-based enterprise, and simulated work environment.  

Participating School Districts

Anthony Wayne Local Schools
Superintendent Kevin Herman

Maumee City Schools
Superintendent Steve Lee

Ottawa Hills Local Schools
Superintendent Adam Fineske

Rossford Schools
Superintendent Dan Creps

Springfield Local Schools
Superintendent Matt Geha

Sylvania Schools
Superintendent Veronica Motley

Washington Local Schools
Superintendent Kristine Martin

Joint Statement

BAC Members

Ayinde Bishop, Representative
Central Midwest Carpenters

Justin Bryson, Curriculum Coordinator
Springfield Local Schools

Terry Campbell, Owner/President
Campbell Equipment
 
Jim Conner, Director of Teaching & Learning
Anthony Wayne Local Schools

Matt Dick, Assistant Superintendent
Maumee City Schools
 
Angela Dietrich, Workforce, Community, and School Liaison
ESC Lake Erie West
 
Ed Ewers, Superintendent
Penta Career Center
 
Erica Fischbach, Career Discovery Director
NWO  Junior Achievement
 
BJ Fischer – BAC Chair
President, Strategy by Fischer
 
Gretchen Fisher, Business Development Officer
Sun Federal Credit Union
 
Sandra Frisch, Superintendent
ESC Lake Erie West
 
Kevin Fuller, Business Representative, ICRA Lead
IKO Regional Council of Carpenters
 
Pamela Mohler, Regional Director
NW Ohio at Future Plans

Ben Malczewski, Sylvania Rotary
Vice-President, Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo

Lauren Murawski, School Counselor
Anthony Wayne Local Schools

Scott Perrotte, High School Principal
Maumee City Schools
 
Glenn Rettig, Training Director
Toledo Electrical Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee
 
Rachael Salazar, Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning
Maumee City Schools
 
Andrea L. Schuster, MBA
Director of Community and Collegiate Partnerships
Mercy College of Ohio

Sara Swisher, Vice President of Talent and Workforce
Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce

Jeri Steinbrook, Workforce Training Coordinator
Center to Advance Manufacturing

Steve Urbanski, Career Technical Education
Sylvania City Schools
 
Kathy White, Sylvania Chamber of Commerce

Thomas Ziems, Associate Principal, Career & Technology Center
Washington Local Schools