WIRE-Net: MAXimize Max Hayes Initiative

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Designing Cleveland’s 21st Century Career Tech High School - The New
Max Hayes

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) has embarked on a major transformation of its high schools. The proposed revitalization of the Max Hayes School is part of that transformation. CMSD has designated Max Hayes as a “refocus” school and requires that it develop a framework for school partnership development and prepare school, program, and curriculum design frameworks to guide the facilities design and frame the development work leading to full-scale implementation of “the new Max Hayes.”

WIRE-Net assembled and organized a Technical Team to provide direction to the design process and to contribute to the development of the design specifications themselves. The Technical Team consisted of representatives from the industry, postsecondary, and community sectors along with CMSD and Max Hayes leaders and Max Hayes students.

Mission ReminderOur past connections at Max S. Hayes High School have generated programs that connect the area’s youth to the manufacturing community and prepare them for manufacturing employment. This initiative, to re-build and strengthen the manufacturing focus of the school, is a golden opportunity. WIRE-Net is proud to help lead this effort and we are here to ensure outstanding outcomes for the region.

WIRE-Net, a non-profit, economic development organization that provides expertise to manufacturing leaders and connects leaders to each other and to their communities, has been a leading corporate partner at Max Hayes High School since 1992, working to engage manufacturing leaders in programs at Max Hayes. Working with the Greater Cleveland Partnership and a coalition of NE Ohio metal working industry associations, WIRE-Net was instrumental in launching TEAM Academy. For nearly two decades, students at Max Hayes have participated in WIRE-Net’s youth career development programs that are designed to create awareness and build a pipeline for new manufacturing leaders.

Working with partners at CMSD and Max Hayes, WIRE-Net secured funding (from The Cleveland Foundation, George Gund Foundation, Eaton Corporation, Greater Cleveland Partnership, Harold C. Schott Foundation, Cleveland Cliffs Foundation, Fred Lennon Charitable Trust, Lincoln Electric Foundation and Swagelok Inc.’s foundation) to help create a new school-business-community partnership that will help define and drive a shared vision and desired educational outcomes at Max Hayes.

CMSD’s leadership understands how important a new curriculum design and community partnership will be to ensure that the new Max Hayes reaches and exceeds the outcomes our students and community expect and need, above and beyond improved graduation rates, and scores on the Ohio Graduation Test, or benchmarks set by the Ohio Department of Education. The new Max Hayes must have a curriculum that is rigorous and relevant, top notch instructors, and programs that are highly integrated with the region’s employers and post-secondary institutions.

You can download the Partnership Guidebook, Design Recommendations or the Executive Summary for the full story. Please visit our website dedicated to the project www.NewMaxHayes.com.