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February Was CTE Month!
We would like to thank our amazing teachers, coordinators, and industry partners for working collaboratively and creatively to enhance distance learning and building virtual experiences for our CTE students!
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The Power of Partnerships |
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Students Selected for Film Making School |
Ten students from Fresno Unified are participating in the Left of Bang Film School, a mentor program led by actor and producer, Brian Hooks. Students began attending four Saturdays of filmmaking school via Zoom in February. Darrin Person, who leads Fresno Unified's Mentoring Office, and Brian have been friends since high school. Through this connection, the film school accepted all 10 of Fresno Unified's applicants. |
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CMAC Youth Voices
Community Media Access Collaborative, (CMAC) began Youth Voices, a 14 week training program in January. The goal of the Youth Voices program is to increase the health outcomes of youth through video arts. Research shows that sharing stories not only connects people, but is also good for an individual’s mental health. 7 of the 12 students participating are from Fresno Unified. Students will receive a $1,000 stipend, plus training and mentorship to produce a short documentary on a topic of their choosing.
The cohort will receive extensive training in story development and video production covering topics such as media literacy, script writing, camera training, audio, editing and post-production. The documentaries will be screened at a free event in April 2021. Thank you to our CMAC partners for this experience!
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Virtual CTE Experiences!!! |
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Virtual Job Shadow Days
Thank you to all of our amazing industry partners for hosting virtual job shadow experiences! Students enjoyed learning about all careers and opportunities to work in our wonderful community!
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Though Sunnyside's Freshmen Success Team and Coordinator, Floridia Cheung, the team created a virtual speaker series to build awareness of opportunities. The speaker series is open to all Fresno Unified students, Pre-K to 12th grade, and the wider public with a different speaker each Monday.
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Roosevelt Roughrider Alumni, Mayor Lee Brand donated $100,000 in scholarships over the next 10 years!!!
Roosevelt High will be offering the ‘Mayor Lee Brand Scholarship’ to seniors for the next 10 years, starting with the class of 2021.
“Our next generation of teachers, nurses, mechanics, and who knows, maybe one of them could be mayor someday,” said Roosevelt Principal, Michael Allen.
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McLane Sports Medicine Internships |
Students involved in MERA ( Medical Education and Research Academy) were able to safely return to campus to conduct their clinical hours and assist the Athletic Trainer as part of the Sports Medicine Paid Internship Program through Fresno EOC. Currently, the Sports Medicine internship is conducted in a hybrid format.
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At the 6th annual Pathway to Law Summit, hosted by California LAW, Bullard High School’s Law & Social Justice pathway was recognized for its role in the Central Valley pipeline. California LAW is an organization working to build pipelines of programs extending from high school to law school, in order to build a more diverse and representative body of attorneys for the state of California. The organization represents 22 high schools, 28 community colleges, 9 universities, and 9 law schools throughout California. Bullard High School is not only a participant in this larger coalition of partners, but also collaboratively involved in the Central Valley pipeline made up of post secondary partners from Fresno City College, Fresno State, and San Joaquin College of Law. This Central Valley pipeline was built not only to achieve the larger California LAW goals of diversity, but also growing and retaining our own legal professionals here in the Central Valley. Bullard’s principal, Dr. Johnny Alvarado, accepted the award along with presidents and deans from our partner institutions at the end of the annual summit.
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Congratulations to Edison High School!
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Congratulations to Edison High School's Green Energy Academy that was recently recognized as a California Distinguished Lighthouse Academy! This week, the Green Academy was presented with this award during the Virtual Educating for Careers Conference. Congratulations to all teachers and students who helped make this possible!
Project Feedback Needed!
Edison hosted CS Con, a week long virtual experience with several participating partners sharing their careers and opportunities in this field. Please click here to review Edison student Computer Science projects. Enter your guest password (CSCon2021). Click here to submit feedback on each presentation.
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Duncan Students- Future Nurses Program
The selections were made for the 2021 Future Nurse Program at Fresno City College. Selected students are given priority registration for all prerequisite classes and once those are completed, the students are guaranteed a spot in FCC’s Registered Nursing Program. 20 applications were selected, 8 of which were selected from Duncan. We are extremely proud to announce that the following students were selected this year:
Kaila Rattana
Divine Melendez
Liliana Garza
Pablo Santiago
Chai Vang
Arlysa Souvanxiau
Lilly Contreras
Alissa Chang
Congratulations to these students and thank you to our industry and post-secondary partners for all the hard work and dedication over the past 4 years!!
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Patino students had the honor of a virtual presentation by Ashley Emerzian from Emerzian Shankar Legal Inc. Ashley shared insights on legal aspects and considerations when starting a business.
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Duncan Polytechnical High School's annual Senior Justification Presentations will be held virtually next month. Duncan is seeking community partners who are willing to sit on evaluation panels to provide vital feedback to students on their readiness to enter college and the workforce. Please click here to complete the volunteer form and select dates that work for you!
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Fresno Unified needs partners in all industry sectors to get involved! Please click to learn how you can help our students become your future workforce!
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This edition is dedicated to the memory of our amazing, dedicated Hoover CTE Champion instructor, Dale Costa. Click here to learn more about Mr. Costa. Go Pates!
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Interested in attending our CTE Advisory Committee Meetings or Sub-Committee Meetings?
All meetings will be done via Zoom or other virtual platforms until further notice
Next CTE Advisory Meeting: May 6, 2021 3:30-4:30PM
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Fresno Unified School District
College & Career Readiness
4120 N. First Street
Fresno, CA 93726
(559)248-7465
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