Steubenville City Schools Offers Advanced Career in Global Logistics and
Supply Chain Management- Project-Based Curriculum, in Fall 2017
In preparation for Steubenville High School 2017/2018 school year, Mrs. Amy Parikakis
completed an intensive Summer Teacher Training Institute to get ready to implement
Global Logistics/Supply Chain Management, an Advanced Career (AC) curriculum.
Steubenville High School is one of three schools in the state of Ohio to offer this
program. Focusing on an emerging career field, critical to the local economy, the
curriculum was developed by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) in
collaboration with states, business and industry partners.
Throughout the training, held at Rutgers University, in Piscataway, New Jersey, Amy
Parikakis became proficient in using project-based learning to engage students in
applying complex spatial problems on a global scale through careful research and
critical thinking about how to move people and products between points.
The AC pathway curriculum comprises a sequence of four ready-to-implement courses;
comprehensive training for teachers; access to tools and technology for project-based
learning; and end-0f-course assessments. AC Global Logistics and Supply Chain
Management engages students in applying their literacy and math skills while learning
technical content and solving authentic problems found in the workplace. AC students
learn to collaborate and work as a business problem solver and use important 21stcentury
skills to solve real-world solutions identified by the business and industry
partners that helped to develop the curriculum.
In addition to the implementation of the Advanced Career Pathway in Global
Logistics/Supply Chain Management, Steubenville City Schools also offers two other
Advanced Careers Curriculum: Innovation in Science and Technology (Course 1 and 2)
and Aerospace Engineering (Course 1 and 2)
Each AC course contains authentic project problems students must solve. Corporate
employees can serve a valuable role by providing advice to students as they research and
develop solutions to project problems. Students are required to make presentations
explaining their research findings and problem solutions. Corporate employees are in an
excellent position to participate as reviewers of student presentations.
To learn more about Global Logistics/Supply Chain Management and
SREB’s other Advanced Career curricula, visit:
https://www.sreb.org/publication/global-logistics-supply-chainmanagement
The Southern Regional Education Board works with states to improve public
education at every level, from pre-K through Ph.D. A nonprofit, nonpartisan
organization based in Atlanta, SREB was created in 1948 by Southern governors and
legislatures to advance education and improve the social and economic life of the
region. Today, SREB works with over 30 states throughout the U.S.