Keeping notes is important. Over time, you can improve the class and know the gotchas that trip students up, and spend more time on these.

Clear objectives define what will be accomplished, the goal in other words.

Lesson plans are a good idea.

I think getting the students to provide content that helped them will help the class overall in the long term. This is a good idea.

Industry Advisory Boards and Student Advisory Councils can prove to be influential regarding sustainability as they promote buy in and and generate massive action towards program building. 

One critical area for an SBE is to implement a F.L.E.X. model and let students know that failure is an option but that you can learn from it and grow and sometimes it's not always about the outcome but what we get out of the process. 

We are currently working on implementing an Engineering SBE at our school where a Makers Space/Fab Lab will be established and the question becomes what we can do with it outside of the Engineering program itself? Teachers and students from core classes can use the lab as a means to incorporate concepts the Engineering students are learning about in their core subject areas such as implementing the use of 3d printers in a history class to print out artifacts from an era they are learning about and then presenting them as part of a project. Additionally, we've ideas to incorporate… >>>

The origin of my school's SBE really is my story as much as it is the school's. A previous teacher had convinced the leadership of my school that she could start and run a teacher cadet academy...show could not. She quit after her first month at the school after they had proceeded to launch the idea as a Technology, Education, Administration and Clinical Health or T.E.A.C.H program. It was a multi-headed hydra that needed to be taken down to one core concept and that would wind up with me coming in to replace that teacher and create a true teacher… >>>

I have learned how the advisory council can contribute to the CTE program. The SBE can be the foundation for the CTE program. The skills and experience that the SBE can offer students is invaluable. 

I learned what soft skills students can develop from working in an SBE. These skills will translate into the real world. Instead of viewing my course as teaching a lesson, I need to view it as developing learners.