What kind of school is Shaomin?

Hejiang County, Luzhou City, is located in southern Sichuan, bordering the impoverished mountainous areas of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Chongqing. This once peaceful small county town has become extremely lively and lively in recent years due to the existence and development of a private vocational school. Leaders, experts, and reporters came, and they came with praises, doubts, and investigations... But the ones who came more often were carrying large and small bags and asking about the students and parents of "Shaomin Vocational School" while walking - Enrollment Miracle: Enrolling students every year 6,000 people, with more than 11,000 students enrolled. From 1999 to the present, Shaomin Vocational School came into being from an agricultural adult correspondence school that was on the verge of bankruptcy just after it was founded. It covers an area of ??dozens of acres to the current area. 250 acres, from 3,000 to 10,000 students, from original assets of 10 million yuan to current assets of 60 million yuan, in just four years, Shao Min has gone through a difficult and tortuous road to entrepreneurship. Min created a miracle! From this, there are also thoughts and revelations brought by Shao Min. At 10 a.m. on November 26, 2003, as soon as the reporter walked into Shaomin Vocational School, he was surrounded by voices of various frequencies. At that time, it was during the student recess. In the corridor of the teaching building that was surrounded by a circle, many students stood leaning on the railings. No one made a loud noise, but the sound waves generated by tens of thousands of students whispering were enough to make people feel " There was a huge crowd." The class bell rang and we walked into Shao Min's large-scale practical classroom. In the fashion design class, first-year students have already started tailoring under the guidance of their teachers. According to Xiao Liu, a girl from Yunnan, this is their second practical class. The first time they drew on paper for more than a week, and this time they started cutting with cloth. Xiao Liu's dream is to be a designer, she doesn't want to be a "tailor". There are about seven or eight computer operation rooms, each with nearly a hundred computers. The blackboard is the teaching content of this class. Students operate directly on the computer, either designing programs or drawing patterns. Almost all classes in the computer information management class are completed in the operation room, and students are exposed to computers every day. In the mechatronics operation room, next to the school's new CNC machines, students wear clean work clothes and can complete all operations by simply setting their own programs. The entire set of equipment is completely in sync with actual production. There are banners and slogans in almost every practical classroom. Different from the school motto or class motto of ordinary schools, Shao Min's slogan is very practical, close to learning and close to the work that students are about to face. For example: start the machine and use the machine, learn the technology well and use the technology; remember the three-point technique and the seven-point knife hand... Practical learning in the practical classroom is the most important and main learning content for every Shaomin student, accounting for 1/3 of the total class time. In the practical classroom, there is the roar of machines, the friction and tapping of scissors and keyboards, the full of mobile phone oil left after car repairs, and the shouts of security class students punching in unison. The most lively time of the year in Hejiang County is when Shaomin Vocational School enrolls students and registers, which is even more festive than the Spring Festival. Since the county's Agricultural Adult Correspondence School was transformed into Shaomin Vocational School in March 1999, any news in Shaomin will cause big or small waves in Hejiang County. Some people joke that every time Shaomin Vocational School has a holiday, the price of vegetables in Hejiang drops. Rough calculation: Shaomin recruits more than 6,000 students from other places every year, with more than 10,000 students and more than 700 faculty and staff. The total annual consumption of more than 10,000 teachers and students is about more than 30 million yuan, which greatly stimulates and Activates local consumption in Hejiang. Employment miracle: The employment rate is as high as 98%, and the number of appointments has reached 71%. The initial student employment work of Shaomin Vocational School started with a factory and a store running next to each other. Principal Wang Zhongping led 26 teachers with social experience to form a Shaomin employment liaison team. They traveled from Hejiang to an unfamiliar big city and bought a city map. They searched street by street and unit by unit. Shaomin gradually opened up the employment market with sincerity and strength, won the respect and trust of manufacturers, and established an employment network. Today, Shaomin has developed into an employment contact team of more than 50 people. It tracks and surveys school graduates and has formed an information network point for more than 2,000 employers. The employment scope includes Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming, Guangzhou, More than 30 large and medium-sized cities including Shenzhen, Wenzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Shunde, and Ningbo. As of 2003, Shaomin had graduated a total of 28,000 students and placed 27,440 graduates, with a job placement rate as high as 98%. At the same time, the proportion of reservations for order cultivation has increased from the initial 36% to 71%.

Shaomin has a promise to the parents of the students: the school will make recommendations based on the students' comprehensive qualities and technical levels, and the employment teachers will personally escort the students to the employment unit. If the student's employment is not in line with the promotion, the school will compensate for all losses, relocate, and Notify parents and accept parental supervision. Practice has proved that due to proper deployment and reasonable selection, the chance of students being unsuccessfully placed in Shaomin is very small. As for the only exception, Shao Min did "report transportation expenses, free food and accommodation, resettlement, and re-employment". This feedback information became an excellent footnote to "Shao Min's integrity and trustworthiness". Every student in Shao Min can lift a family out of poverty. This is Shao Min’s belief in running a school, and it is also the hope that parents place on Shao Min. Sun Mingquan, a student in Class 37 of Mechatronics, is a member of a family of four. His father has lost his labor force and his mother works alone to support the family. In his last semester at Shaomin, Sun Mingquan earned his own money to pay his tuition. The 350 yuan he spent were all in small receipts of 5 yuan each, which made people cry. Now, after graduation, Sun Mingquan is working in Chengdu, with a monthly income of more than 1,600 yuan, and he is responsible for the family. Wu Di also studied mechatronics and his family is very poor. After graduating, this student started his own machinery factory in Kunming after several ventures, bringing the whole family into a new direction. Shaomin graduates are quick to learn, have excellent skills, are honest and modest, and are especially able to endure hardships. They are very popular with employers. After the probation period, the salary is generally more than 600 yuan, and in some majors it reaches 1,000 yuan. For this information, Shaomin has a dedicated person to track and understand it and report it to the school in a timely manner, and then the school will notify the parents and current students: Yang Bo, a graduate of the computer major, is the director of the design department of Chengdu Paidi Company, with a monthly salary of more than 3,000 yuan; a graduate of the electronics major Yang Cailong is the technical director of the after-sales service center of Beijing Haier Group, with an annual salary of 60,000 yuan... These exciting news have inspired batches of students and their families. The miracle of running a school: the campus area doubled several times, and a public vocational high school was purchased. It was very difficult for Shaomin to run a school in the beginning. In 1999, both private education and vocational education were at a low ebb in development, lacking policies, theories, and successful cases. Shao Min didn't even have a decent school gate at the beginning, and it took several years to sort out the school's approval procedures. What to do? what to do? They were all figured out by Shao Min people with their own hands and feet, and the soul figure among them is the principal Wang Zhongping. Shao Min takes it one step at a time, operates with debt, and develops on a rolling basis. Every year, he spends tens of millions of yuan to demolish private houses, expand the campus, and build new teaching buildings. In order to solve the shortage of teaching venues, Shaomin obtained policies from the county government and allocated more than 50 acres of floodplain land on the Yangtze River for use. In 2002, the Hejiang County government took back a 3-acre commercial land that had been transferred and had great development value. The transfer to Shaomin solved the problem of construction of teachers' dormitories in Shaomin. In 2003, Shaomin bought the entire assets of Caiba Vocational High School, a long-established vocational high school across the street with a history of more than 60 years, for 11 million yuan, causing a sensation in Hejiang and even the whole province. It started with a few school buildings and more than ten acres of land, and now the campus is divided into north and south, covering an area of ??250 acres. Such changes are based on the word "do". If everything is really ready to start Shao Min, I'm afraid it's still in the demonstration stage. When it comes to the way to run a school, the first one is that Shaomin’s founders can endure hardships and are not afraid of them. For example, when the school couldn't afford new internship equipment at first, it looked for people to buy old machine tools, old electrical appliances, and old cars, and then repaired them and gave them to the students. After four years of development and operation, Shao Min is now very famous. Some people say that Wang Zhongping has made money this time. But if you really visit Shaomin, you will know that almost all of Shaomin’s money is invested in the development of the school, especially the purchase of internship equipment and equipment. On the contrary, the administrative building where Shaomin's "top leaders" work is the shabbiest of all school buildings. Over the years, Shao Min has purchased various professional practice equipment and corresponding equipment worth more than 25 million yuan. The second thing is that the principal responsibility system has been well implemented in Shaomin, with flexible mechanism and special management. For example, open enrollment is implemented, recruiting junior high school graduates, adults, and junior high school dropouts. Break the convention of autumn enrollment and implement spring and autumn enrollment. In terms of curriculum, in addition to offering courses in accordance with relevant regulations, Shaomin has also added related courses that directly correspond to the needs of employment units. Shaomin currently has 443 teachers. In addition to teachers of cultural courses and professional courses, there are also 108 intern teachers who can be regarded as skilled craftsmen. Shaomin students have classes six and a half days a week, with only half a day off. The rest day is Thursday afternoon. The purpose is to shorten the time for students to become talents and allow them to learn as much knowledge as possible in two years.

In terms of management, Wang Zhongping has some "tricks" of his own. For example, Shao Min ensured that each student paid 1 yuan to eat well at school, so the school built 13 internal canteens and evaluated them every day. If a student in a cafeteria is not popular enough, the school will replace him immediately. This approach mobilized the enthusiasm of the canteen staff and ensured the interests of the students. It was very effective. The third factor is Shao Min's emphasis on and sensitivity to the market. What kind of expertise does the market need? What kind of students are needed? These are all issues that Shao Min is most concerned about. The school collects information by reading newspapers, surfing the Internet, sending people to market research, holding discussions with private enterprise owners, etc.; a vice principal in charge of employment at the school has been away for many years and has an in-depth understanding and accurate understanding of the market, which is reflected in a timely manner. Shao Min's school. In the past four years, Shao Min's majors have grown from the first few to the current 13, and all of them have been continuously tested or promoted by the market. For example, driving, secretarial work, and security are independent majors in many vocational schools. Once, when Shaomin Vocational School recommended students to a security company, it was discovered that security, secretarial and driving jobs are actually interchangeable occupations within the same company. A graduate who can do security, secretarial and driving jobs at the same time is the most popular among employers. welcome. After being inspired, Shao Min opened a comprehensive major in driving, culture and insurance. As a result, graduates of this major are very popular, with an employment rate of 100%. Shao Min has created a miracle in running private vocational schools. After initially being watched and scrutinized, the Shao Min phenomenon has been recognized and supported by more and more people. At the just-concluded provincial private education work conference, Shao Min received the medal for the Advanced Private Education Collective of Sichuan Province, and principal Wang Zhongping was also named the Advanced Individual of Private Education in the Province. Hidden worries One of the hidden worries: running schools still needs to be standardized. At the beginning of the business, Shao Min still had many irregularities in its operations, such as recruiting students and robbing students. Nowadays, the development of the school is on the right track, but strict rules and regulations have not yet been formed on relevant issues. Concern No. 2: Management needs summary. Shao Min's management has begun to take shape, but it has a "family-style" tendency. At the same time, facing a school of this size, there are many things that need to be summarized and studied, but Shaomin currently lacks such information and file management. Worry No. 3: Development requires thinking. Shao Min must carefully consider how to accommodate 10,000 students on 250 acres of land and provide vocational education and general education at the same time. How to achieve coordinated development. Worry No. 4: Employment needs to be strengthened. Whether Shaomin's employment network and channels can withstand the ever-changing test of the market, whether it can always find a suitable space, and whether more modern methods and methods are needed are also issues that many people are concerned about. Enlightenment Yuan Huabin, Director of Luzhou Municipal Education Bureau: There are four indispensable factors for Shaomin’s success: 1. Distinctive vocational education characteristics. Emphasis is placed on training and practice. Most of students' homework is completed in practical operations, and students can start working immediately after leaving school. 2. The school should closely follow the market. Both professional setting and employment placement are based on the market; at the same time, we are honest and trustworthy, consider students and parents to the greatest extent, and win trust and respect. 3. Start a business with hard work and don’t rush for quick success. All the money Shao Min earned was invested in the development of the school. The principal did not take any money, nor did the school teachers. This team has withstood the test. 4. The school is run independently and the mechanism is flexible. Shao Min's life depends on his autonomy. Whether it is professional setting, enrollment and employment, or teacher appointment, Shao Min's managers have absolute autonomy. Shaomin now has a brand effect that has stunned many public schools. The Luzhou Municipal Education Bureau is considering using Shao Min’s inspiration to transform public vocational high schools.