Milwaukee Professionals Association Announces 13 MPS Schools Selected for POSSE Affiliation

"On the day that Wisconsinites are beginning the Recall of Governor Scott Walker, Monday, November 14, 2011, we are proud to announce 13 schools were selected for the first round of our 2011-2012 POSSE Schools from MPS/Milwaukee Public Schools," said Mary Glass, Chair/CEO, Milwaukee Professionals Association. "We are moving ahead with another part of the Public School Trifecta to re-define, re-brand and un-trap hidden talent in the City of Milwaukee." "This is a great start, we look forward to working the challenges to our benefit."


MILWAUKEE, WI - November 14, 2011,the AHOD/ALL HANDS on Deck, WE, Not Me Initiative, launched January 23-26, 2010, takes another giant step to begin to "pipeline" talent for 21st Century employment, for global competitiveness, career starts, wealth building and sustainability of hidden talent and emerging/submerging business stakeholders in the City of Milwaukee - those by design left out of strategic planning and decision making; while their huge pots of federal funds are used.

3-Part Trifecta
The Public School Trifecta plan of AHOD calls for a 3-part public school collaboration of MPS/Milwaukee Public School, MATC/Milwaukee Area Technical and UW-M/University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.


First Stage
The POSSE component consist of juniors and seniors of selected high schools working-in-a-partnering and collaborating way to share information for growth through SATURDAY TALK and MEET N' GREET activities. Students are taught WISENESS, debate/forensics, civility, and CASE Learning techniques for Leadership, Citizenship and Problem Solving. They are paired with tutoring of the Safety Matters Exploratory Team - college students that are 2-year, undergraduate, graduate, technical assistants and post graduate students. They will have field experience from "their" neighborhood. They will build "their" portfolio. They will map "their" neighborhood. They will know "their" elected officials. They will give back to "their" school for others to enter the "pipeline" and grow.

They will create the 2012 youth-teen-young adults conference for show-n-tell/sharing.

POSSE OF 13 Schools
The thirteen (13) schools selected are:

- Bay View School
- Community High School
- International Peace Academy
- Lady Pitts /District School Age Parent Center
- Lynde & Harry Bradley Technology and Trade School
- Milwaukee Campus for Technology, Trades & Media
- Milwaukee High School of the Arts
- Milwaukee Learning Laboratory & Institute
- Professional Learning Institute/PLI
- Project Stay
- Rufus King High School
- School of Media and Communications
- South Division High School