Tucson Unified Career and Technical Education Teachers and Students completed a successful Fall Quarter.
Read about CTE accolades and accomplishments in this issue of
CAREER CONNECT
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ANNUAL PROGRAM EVALUATION
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VALUABLE STAKEHOLDER INPUT
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Photo Credit: Emma Tarazon,Pueblo HS
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Septemb
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21st, Tucson Unified CTE students, teachers, industry partners, parents and additional stakeholders
were welcomed to the Catalina High School library with
a hot breakfast prepared and
served by Catalina Culinary students. The day was spent collaborating in an effort to evaluate and improve our CTE progr
ams.
The current cycle of review included these programs: Automotive,
Electronics, Engineering, Law and Public Safety, Pha
rmacy Tech, Precision Machining, Software Development, Sports Medicine and Welding.
In compliance with
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Photo Credit: Emma Tarazon, Pueblo HS
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the Carl Perkins Federal Grant, and guidance from The Arizona State
Department of Education, TUSD CTE developed a process to use
stakeholders input. This input guides the interpretation of data to inform quality decisions that effect the future of
TUSD CTE.
The data includes: the latest assessment scores,
graduation rates, technical standards and stakeholder survey results.
A brief plan was then discussed with stakeholders to set the course for the future.
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Photo Credit: Emma Tarazon, Pueblo HS
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The afternoon was spent working
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Photo Credit:
Mayra Hernandez, Anette Durazo, Juliana Saenz. Pueblo HS
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in cohorts for Professional Development. This included work with Kristy Esquerra, TUSD Academic Trainer for Curriculum Development, on the continuing production of the TUSD CTE Curriculum, Scope and Sequence.
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SANTA RITA SPROUTS HURRICANE RELIEF
Josh Ruddick, CTE Agribusiness Teacher
at Santa Rita High School said "
Santa Rita Sprouts is a student-run business, enabled in part
through an agreement with Real World Scholars."
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SR Sprouts preps donations.
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Santa Rita Sprouts' current
service-learning project includes
donating student-made-soap
to relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Harvey.
Santa Rita Sprouts invites everyone
to join their effort by collecting toiletries for donation to hurricane
victims.
The effort has been extended to the end of the quarter.
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A COMMUNITY COLLABORATION
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CHOLLA PARTNERS WITH PCC
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Photo credit: Rueben Loya
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Nicolette Loya and Rene Tovar working working on narration.
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Rueben Loya's Cholla High Music and Audio Production students collaborated with V
iva
Arizona
Dance
Performance
Arts
Theatre
and
Pima
College. Loya
said his
students
recorded v
oice-
overs
and
narration
to
be
used
for an
October
Production
at
Pima
College.
The Viva Arizona/Pima College performance is October 7. Credit will be given to the Cholla Music and Audio Production students in the program.
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RAPIDLY CHANGING WORKPLACE
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VICTOR MORENO,
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT AMBASSADOR
Tucson High Magnet School senior, Victor Moreno was named the Junior Achievement Southern Area Ambassador. JA Young Ambassadors serve as representatives throughout the community. Moreno's career goal is to be an Electrical Engineer.
Recently, Moreno was on KGUN 9 with Chuck Zaepfel, the Director for Junior Achievement of Arizona's Southern District.
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Chuck Zaepfel and Victor Moreno
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SEPTEMBER GOVERNING BOARD RECOGNITION
Congratulations to our National Champions! Career and Technical Students and Advisors who placed at National Competitions were recognized by the Superintendent and Governing Board September 26, 2017. The recognitions included two 1st place Champions: Nur Tanbal,
T-Shirt Design, Tucson High - SkillsUSA, Graphic Communications and Jessica Class, Rincon High - Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) Fashion Design.
Earning a 2nd place Silver Medal was Jonathan McCollough,
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Design, Tucson High - SkillsUSA, Graphic Communications, and 3rd place: Caroline Farkas, Cholla High - FCCLA.
Award winning Advisors were SkillsUSA: Pete Pederson and Jerald Zivic, Tucson High;
FCCLA: Gloria Nelson, Cholla High and Mary Perry, Rincon High.
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BIOSCIENCE STUDENT SHADOWS SURGEONS & ENGINEERS
The Perry Initiative inspires young women to be leaders in Orthopaedic Surgery and Engineering by partnering with medical centers, universities and high schools nationwide.
Perry Outreach Program hosted an event
for high school students
at Mayo Clinic Arizona, in Scottsdale on September 30, 2017.
Students
interested in exploring careers in orthopaedics or engineering participated in six hands-on "mock surgical" exercises and heard lectures from local women surgeons and engineers.
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Yazmin Almazen, Pueblo Bioscience at the Mayo Clinic.
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OFFICE 365:
NEED HELP with Office 365? Microsoft has a vast amount of support materials and lessons online through the Microsoft Educator Community.
- Staff can also access Microsoft Office online task-based tutorials:
Reminder: Initial rollout does not include Outlook or Calendar functions in Office 365. Those will be migrated in a later phase. For the time being, you will continue to use the Outlook and Calendar applications on your computer or the Outlook web application.
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17-18 CTE Department Chair Meetings
10/3; 11/9; 12/7; 1/23; 2/20; 3/13; 4/10; 5/8
SkillsUSA
Fall Leadership Conference PHX
10/17/17
October Governing Board Recognition
Bioscience and JA October 24th
Construction & Career Days
10/26/17
FBLA/FCCLA/HOSA
Fall Leadership FLEX Conference 11/08/17
TUSD AUTOMOTIVE ADVISORY
12/4/17
CTE MONTH
02/2018
SCI FEST
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