Title
Developing a Comprehensive Middle School STEAM Career Academy

Session Code
2370

Venue
Phoenix Convention Center

Room
129 A/B

Speaker

Cathleen DelaPaz

Description

Looking to design a comprehensive middle school career academy? Join us as we explore the benefits of offering CTE workshops to students in middle school. Over the past threes, the Essex County Schools of Technology has developed and grown their STEAM Career Academy workshops offered for free to students throughout the county. During these Saturday and Summer Academy workshops, middle school students are able to explore the benefits of CTE while helping to make more informed decisions about their high school choice and future career pathway. Data indicates that students who participate in the STEAM Career Academy were positively influenced to apply to our district as incoming freshmen. Further, the overwhelmingly positive feedback from students and parents alike is helping to change the antiquated notion that vocational education is not as academically rigorous as traditional comprehensive high schools. Participants in this workshop will learn how to utilize Perkins funding to design and advertise a competitive middle school Saturday and Summer program.

Handouts

- ACTE Presentation- ECST STEAM Career Academy .pdf|256BAF5E-E55E-4612-BA57-9EC9ECC56754/3B0090FE-C64F-ED11-80C3-001B21D7CC11/handouts/202312123587_d2193b3da636d89563ed17f087f11161.pdf|eshow|etagDO|https://eshow.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/256BAF5E-E55E-4612-BA57-9EC9ECC56754/3B0090FE-C64F-ED11-80C3-001B21D7CC11/handouts/202312123587_d2193b3da636d89563ed17f087f11161.pdf|false|https://eshow.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/256BAF5E-E55E-4612-BA57-9EC9ECC56754/3B0090FE-C64F-ED11-80C3-001B21D7CC11/han
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11Qb-KsjBj5ODuQaCmBYaxDWaqTYCuUKL/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108329512323453088725&rtpof=true&sd=true