Ms. Susan Turner joins the CTE EHS nest!

Susan J Turner, retired from ABSS in July of 2018, after working as a Career Development Coordinator at Williams High School for 18 years. Ms. Turner is certified in special populations and her current teaching assignment is Career Management at Eastern. "I believe that all students can benefit from the career management curriculum. It truly is a lot of life and self management." In her free time, Ms. Turner is self employed as a Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant, teaches Poundfit at The Edge Health and Fitness Center, and works in the office at Kidsport Gymnastics Academy. She has 2 adult children, Rick Jackson, NCSU graduate, who works in the IT industry at Allscripts in Raleigh. Madison Turner is a UNCG graduate who is currently working on a Master's Degree in Library Science. Ms. Turner is located in V2, and teaches 1st & 2nd blocks.

Eastern Alamance High School “Once an Eagle, Always an Eagle” EXPECT SUCCESS!

CTE: Career and Technical Education

Spring semester 2019 Volume 5 Issue 5

February 13 is Family and Consumer Science (FCS) Educator Day!

The purpose of this Day is to promote FCS Education careers and to

recognize and show appreciation for FCS educators and the difference they make

in the lives of individuals, families, and communities. Please be sure to wish Dr. Bell,

Ms. Clark, Ms. Jacobs and Mrs. Mercs a Happy Family and Consumer Science Educator day!

February Celebrations! National School Counseling Week : 2/4-2/8. Ms. Cushman, Mr. Lancaster and Mrs. Jones rock as EHS High School Counselors. They

support and advocate for CTE and assist students in college and career ready course selections! THANK YOU for all you do!

State Superintendent Mark Johnson and Com-munity College System President Peter Hans joined together to make an announcement re-

garding career pathways in North Carolina. Ca-reer Pathways is the program that help students develop core academic, technical and employa-bility in public schools. The NC Department of Public Instruction works closely with the NC Community College System to help students

choose and gain the knowledge and education needed for successful careers. Johnson and Hans declared February as Career Cluster

Month!

Check out this website from the NC Superintendent to find out about high-

demand career pathways in North Carolina!

https://www.ncsuperintendent.com/nextsteps

Three of our FCCLA members, Trinity Gathright, Essense Oliver, and Jocelyn Carcamo are doing a Hygiene drive for Allied Churches as a part of their competitive event for State Conference. They have done a great deal of research to make sure what items would be most useful and have worked very hard to put this together. They have placed a box in all 1st period teachers classes to donate items and the 1st peri-od class with the most donations will receive a breakfast party. FCCLA appreciates your support and EHS wishes these three young ladies success at the NC FCCLA State Conference !

2019 FCCLA Week National FCCLA Week will take place February 11-15, 2019 and will feature the following themes for each day: Monday, February 11 - Be Spirited Tuesday, February 12 - Be Confident Wednesday, February 13 - Be Prepared Thursday, February 14 - Be A Friend

EHS CTE Teachers leading the way in Professional development for all teachers!

Erin Mercs, FCS teacher, provided a session

titled “Building a Course in Canvas to Improve Student

Self-Pacing.” This course taught teachers the basics of how to build their own course in

Canvas from start to finish that is easy to

navigate for students and teachers and can be used from semester to semester.

Steve Smith, Business teacher, provided a

session titled Role Play or Real Day. During this session, teachers learned how to use

role plays and real life scenarios to improve teaching connections!

SHOUT OUT for CTE from Mrs. Henninger: To John Stewart, Carpentry teacher who never fails to help when needed. His

ability to fix computer carts is awesome, and that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Ms. Clark and Ms. Turner’s Career Management classes join forces to provide guest speaker opportunities!

Friday, February 8th, Career Management

hosted Madison Turner in the guest speaking series. Miss Turner is a 2014

Williams High graduate and a 2018 UNCG graduate. Miss Turner talked about her

career experience as a new college graduate. She detailed her negative

experience in the real world of work in her first adult job, problem solving to figure out what she truly

wanted to do, and how she got where she is today. "It's ok to try something and not like it. You have to

reevaluate, problem solve, look at your resources to determine what your next step might be." Miss Turner is

enrolled in graduate school at UNCG working on a Master's Degree in Library Science. She works part time cleaning

houses and is a Cheer Coach at Kidsport Gymnastics Academy.

February 15, Jennifer Wilson, Vet Tech at the Burlington Animal Shelter visited Career

Management classes. She shared how she uses Algebra daily to proper ly prescr ibe

medications for animals. She has a 2-year biology degree.

Here’s what Trevor Irby, a EHS senior, said about the presentation: “The presentation from Friday was very educational. If you didn’t already know about vets, then you would have learned a lot about them through the presentation. Even though I am not interested in being a vet, it helped me

better understand how impor tant their job is and how much animals mean to them. If you are thinking about being a vet

after high school, go talk to one and see if you think you would like it. “

Eagles step up to generate interest in Plumbing

Sean-Michael Joyce and Vicente Collazo, both

11th graders, signed up with Mrs. Johnson and enrolled in the plumbing continuing education classes this year through the College and Career Promise (CCP) at Alamance Community College (ACC). They talked with Mrs. Johnson about their

desire to volunteer and present their plumbing experience to students in hopes of

generating interest in the career field. Tuesday, Feb 19, they went into 7 classrooms to present. The projected growth of plumbers (2016-2026) is

much faster than average (15% higher) with a median wage of $25.28/hour (O*Net online).

Sean-Michael and Vicente discussed the types of classes at Alamance Community College, the

experience they are gaining and the opportunities available in this career field! They will receive a

certificate upon completion of the requirements which means they can often earn higher pay if

employed. Plumbers install and repair pipes that supply water and gas to homes. They also install

bathtubs, sinks, toilets and appliances.

There are other skilled trade programs at ACC:

Automotive, Cosmetology, HVAC, Machining and

Mechatronics Engineering to name a few!

EAHS Registration Fair February 21, 2019 Parents and students attended the Registration fair Thursday! Thirty minute sessions were held in the auditorium which covered high school graduation

requirements, college entrance requirements, how to be successful in AP/Honors

courses and Canvas/Powerschool. In addition, program areas had representation to answer

questions and share information. Of course ,CTE was rocking it with representation!!! We had

representation from the Business, Family and Consumer Science and Trade and Industrial program area and CTEC

as well as two of our student organizations: DECA and FCCLA!