November 2022 Newsletter

For the 2022-2023 School year, the CTE/CCMR department will continue to strategically align department initiatives, activities, and district wide campaigns to meet and exceed the following goals:

Student Academic Success

Increase the percentage of graduates who meet at least one college, career, or military readiness indicators with in the A-F accountability framework

Students, families, and community Connections

Increase student participation, experiences and service opportunities to ensure 90% of students are connected with areas of interest

We will give you College, career and Military Readiness Events and Resources, CTE programs of Study news, and updates from Shari Huffman our CTE instructional team Leader.

All of our CTSO organizations are participating at maximum level in regional and state competitions. Students that participate in Career and Technical Student organizations have requirements to participate in competitions. And theses students exceed expectations and give full effort. We appreciate our CTE students that are in multiple activities across the high school that give up there time to participate in student led organizations.

As a participant, these students hold officer roles and volunteer their time outside of school hours to give back to the community and demonstrate a positive impact to our Wills Point High School campus.

These students have dedicated sponsors that take the time to assist the students to become success in their college and career dreams. They prepare them to become workforce ready in the classroom and students demonstrate these practices at all competitions.

These students have opportunities to have scholarships, internships, and gain job skills to prepare for college and career. We are so proud of all of our CTSO and CTE students that help with projects and competitions during and after school hours.

FCCLA Sponsors and Teachers

Mrs. Jill Goldberg, Mrs. Shari Huffman, and Mrs. Linda Oliver

Mrs. Huffman and Mrs. Oliver train students food safety, food science, and Culinary arts. The instruction of this program is very particular with teaching the understanding and skills on how to the operation of restaurants, food service, management and marketing produce a success culinary business.

FCCLA participants participate in regional and state competitions that demonstrate their skills for career success in hospitality & tourism as well as Human services. These group of students are preparing for their ServSafe Manager Certificates and Community Health Worker Certificates.

Texas Best Robotics- UIL Competition

Mr. Dan Kenefake sponsor and Teacher

This year The 2022 BEST Robotics competition theme, “Made 2 Order”, BEST of Texas Robotics (BTR) is a front runner in bringing S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) to the hearts and minds of middle and high school students.

FFA sponsors

Mrs. Kimberly Martin, Mr. Mark Kellogg, Ms. Chloe Brown, Ms. Hannah Wells

These sponsors and teachers are hard working to facilitate students to become regional and state bound FFA chapter.

Students demonstrate and understand the plant identification, common scientific names of plants, industry specific vocabulary. Students take a written exam that will ask them to complete a nine carantion triangle hands on design and a rose boutonniere hands on design. The principles elements of floral design they are identifying and creating projects to perform balance, mechanics, proportion/scale, depth/rhythm, focal point, dominance, skelton, foliage, unity form and line.

The Veterinary Medical Applications class is having our first Rabies Clinic on Saturday, November 12, 2022 at Dr. Lowery's Veterinary Clinic from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. This is an opportunity for our Vet Med students to get hands-on experience with a licensed veterinarian.

Students who complete the VET med Tech hours and certifications could work in a variety of occupations. Some of the work activities could include preparing medications or medical solutions, test biological specimens to gather information about patient conditions, assist healthcare practitioners during examinations or treatments, administer basic health care or medical treatments and maintain medical equipment or instruments.

Coach Lovvorn teaches these students on TV broadcasting, video production, advertising that demonstrates knowledge using the performance task on operating equipment to record sound and images to use for Weekly WPHS news and other district video production projects.

INFORMATION FOR TSIA2 PREPARATION & TESTING

Texas Success Initiative (TSIA2)

The Texas Success Initiative is a state-legislated program designed to improve student success in college. Based on performance, a student may either be enrolled in a college level course that matches skill level or be placed in the appropriate developmental course or intervention to improve skills and prepare for success in college-level courses.

Not all students need to take the TSIA2. There are several ways to be exempt. Qualifying for a TSI Assessment exemption means that you can enroll in any entry-level college course without restrictions. A student is exempt from TSI requirements in all areas only if the student meets one of the following test conditions. Students may not combine scores from different administrations of the same test.

Dates are coming to you soon.

CTE/CCMR Advisory Committee, next meeting will be in Nov. 28 at the CTE hospitality room at 530pm.

CCMR BOARD MET ON OCT. 19

CTE programs were the primary focus.

Our new program, Education and Training, is taught by Mrs. Whitaker. She is using the State adopted program "Grow your Own" to market students to become teachers.Those students will get access to free admissions to colleges such as UTA or SFASU, to get their credentials and hopefully return back to WPISD to continue their teaching profession. In the Fall of 2023, we will be offering those students educational aid certificate once completing hours under Mrs. Whitaker supervision. We will be using our district communication/marketing department to help assist with growth of this program in the Spring 2023.

In the fall of 2023, we are partnering with TVCC to offer a dual credit program for Health Science program, Healthcare Therapeutics. The students will get their CCMA certificate through our certified teacher Mrs. Jennifer Reynolds. In the spring of 2023, TVCC will be developing an facility, equipment and implementation plan to assist us on how simulate a educational clinic on our campus.

Our new Certified Auto Mechanic, Mr. Attaway. He will be preparing students to take their preliminary requirements to become ASE certified in 1-2 categories starting 2023.

We use data from surveys we send to our stakeholders, analyze the highest job market demand in our area to determine what best fit our students, and collaborate with our advisory committee.

We want to see our students succeed, and the best way to start. Is here at Wills Point High School.

We are continuing to look into improvements across all CTE programs, so that every student is successful and workforce ready.

With SchooLinks, students have the ability to search, favorite, and apply for scholarships all within the platform. However, we take this further with our Scholarship Matching tool and connect students to scholarships based on eligibility, interests, and target colleges.

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The Texas Leadership Scholars program seeks top performing students with demonstrated financial need, leadership in their high school community, and academic success.

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Do you know someone with a passion for discovery?

Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) is now seeking students and educators to participate in deep ocean expeditions as part of the 2023 E/V Nautilus Expedition in the Central Pacific! Founded by Dr. Robert Ballard, OET is a nonprofit organization committed to bringing international ocean exploration to the world via live telepresence and providing experiential opportunities for students, young professionals, and educators.

Paid internships for recent graduates are available in ocean science, ROV (remotely operated vehicle) engineering, and video engineering through the Science & Engineering Internship Program. Accepted students will have the chance to sail aboard an open ocean exploration expedition on E/V Nautilus for 3-5 weeks learning from experts in the field.

Opportunities for classroom educators, informal, and community educators are available through OET's Science Communication Fellowship. Accepted Fellows are paid to attend a science communication training workshop in March 2023 and sail aboard E/V Nautilus for 3-5 weeks to bring the excitement of ocean exploration to students and public audiences around the world through varied outreach platforms.

Learn more in the application packet and apply before December 31, 2022: https://nautiluslive.org/join.

Questions? Contact the OET Education Team via education@oet.org

Texas First Diploma is for high-achieving students on track to graduate early. They can earn a Distinguished Level of Achievement and a scholarship toward their first year at a select Texas university.

More information here: https://ytexas.com/leadership-academy/

How to make sure you keep growing and learning:

"Small, everyday experiments can help us reach our goals and get better at the skills that ar important to us"

Read arcticle here: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_make_sure_you_keep_growing_and_learning

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