EDGE Continuum

EDGE Adventure is a work-based learning program designed to provide students with real-life job experiences in the community. Students learn how to apply the employability, transitional, and life skills learned in class to internships at local businesses. Students are placed in internships each semester and work at their assigned job site two days a week. EDGE Adventure students attend class one day a week, where the focus is on developing transition skills that foster the characteristics necessary for future success.

As part of the EDGE Continuum, Adventure participates in all ares of career development, including resume building, mock interviews, and post-secondary planning. Adventure focuses on the Boone High School Portrait of a Graduate competencies with emphasis on Communication, Life-Ready, and Civic & Global Engagement.

The EDGE Adventure program also partners with various non-profit and community organizations to provide community enrichment opportunities throughout the school year. Students gain valuable life skills through these volunteer experiences.

I-JAG (Iowa Jobs for America’s Graduates) is a career exploration and preparation program that provides a hands-on approach in exploring personal strengths and challenges as well as job attainment skills (cover letter, resume, job application, interviewing, etc.) and work place “survival” skills (interpersonal relations, team work, etc.). Students will also work to build strengths in academic areas, time management, and communication. The individual and team project work will also help students come to an understanding of personality and temperament and the relationship between personal actions and consequences that follow. Students will make connections to their career interests, abilities, and aptitudes by determining their education and career goals through development of an Individual Career Development Plan. This full-year, credited course involves individual assignments, team activities/projects, academic remediation support, service learning opportunities, guest speakers, field trips (including a couple to state I-JAG events in Des Moines), and career exploration through job shadowing and/or an internship. Students will also participate in the I-JAG Career Association in various activities focused on Career and Leadership Development, Service Learning, and Civic/Social Awareness.

Our quality pre-apprenticeship program is in partnerships with Kruck Plumbing and Heating and Associated Builders and Contractors of Iowa Apprenticeship & Training Trust. Students learn skills through online modules and gain years of experience with a quality apprentice partner through on-the-job labs.

This program prepares students to explore, prepare for, and enter a career. This program offers classroom experience and online training modules as well as labs, on-the-job training, and/or an internship. These experiences are related to their future education or career goals. Boone High School partners with numerous community employers in several fields. Students attend regular classes in the morning and have afternoons available for this program.

Advantage students learn through collaborative, project-based learning by working in the community with businesses, government, and nonprofit organizations on authentic projects. They apply academic learning and refine employability skills.

Students enrolled in our Apply courses enroll in courses the produce goods or services for sale or to be used by people other than the participating students. Course examples include Toreador Take & Bake, Survey of Education, Sports Broadcasting, Advanced Digital Journalism, Advanced Video Production, Toreador Metal Works, Precision Ag Technology, Health Occupations, Tech Team, & Engineering Design & Development.

Students enrolled in Advanced courses design an individual learning experience through a project in collaboration with a teacher and a business partner typically through EXCEL or complete an internship and accompanying coursework. Projects and internships advance individual passions and skills while providing a high quality, industry-relevant, experience. Students can enroll in EDGE Advanced Internship/Mentorship Plus, which will allow students to receive five DMACC credits in two different courses and two Boone High credits upon completion of coursework and 120 hours on the job. Students can also enroll in EDGE Advanced/Internship/Mentorship for Boone credit upon completion of coursework and 60 hours on the job.