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Marana Career Academies are Smaller Learning Communities designed to help every student discover their place and decide their plan.TRANSCRIPT
Discover your place.Decide your plan.
Marana High SchoolCaring Interactions & Effective Practices
Discover your placeCaring Interactions
Goals: Personal Connections Personal Explorations
Personal Plan post-‐MHS
Goals:Career ConnectionsCareer ExplorationsCareer Plan post-‐MHS
Academy AdvisoryAcademy Board
Spirit Days and Weeks
Enrichments
Discussion Groups
Social Media
Academy Cup
Graduation
Mentoring Advisor
Advisory Cohort
Freshmen Involvement
Social Events
Service Projects
Academy Olympics
Academy Awards
Career Choices Curriculum
Freshmen Success Academy
Guest Speakers
Job Fairs & Interviews
College Applications
Exit Portfolio
10-‐year Career/Ed Plan
Internships
ECAPs
Academic Monitoring
Academic Interventions
Tutoring
Testing Prep
Graduation Check
Decide your planEffective Practices
Who am I?What do I want?How do I get it?
We care about our students by providing smaller learning communities as a safe place to connect, explore and plan for their lives beyond high school.
Each student will interact with various career-field and professional organizations in order to have a direction and plan for the future.
Marana Academies
Freshmen Success AcademyFSA
FSA Vision:Freshmen at MHS will be productive community members who are organized, responsible, motivated, and engaged
both academically and socially.
Freshmen Success Academy is designed to help our freshmen develop:
10-‐Year Education and Career PlanBudgeting and Financial Skills
Goal-‐Setting SkillsDecision-‐Making Skills
Study SkillsA Visualized Future for Themselves
Skills InventoryWorking Portfolio
Leadership and Self-‐Development
Our V isionVision + Energy=Success
Drives Our Discovery
Who Am I? What Do I Want? How Do I Get it?
To Decide
Discover Your P lace. Decide Your Plan.
Business & Human Services@MaranaBHS
BHS Academy is for you if you want
to develop:EntrepreneurshipProfessionalismTime ManagementGlobal Awareness Public SpeakingProblem SolvingNetworkingCollaboration
Personal Finance ToolsTechnology Skills
NegotiationTeamwork
Presentation Skills
Criminal Justice
BHS Academy Vision:BHS Academy will prepare employable and
socially responsible citizens.
Serving Tomorrow
Business
Sign Language Interpretation
BHS is:
Culinary Arts
Criminal Justice
Education &
Early Childhood Development
Journalism
Economics
Civic Engagement
Technological Innovation
Social Consciousness
Leadership Development
Marana Arts Academy@MaranaARTS
Marana Arts Academy Vision:Marana Arts Academy will prepare compassionate
individuals who are disciplined, innovative, and engaged in the community.
Marana Arts Academy is for you if you want to develop:
CreativityConRidence
Problem-‐Solving SkillsPerseverance
FocusNon-‐Verbal Communication Skills
Self-‐ReRlectionCollaboration Skills
Dedication
Openness to Novelty
Idea Generation
Curiosity
Invention
Imagination
Playfulness
Divergent Thinking
Reasoning by Metaphor
Visual Art & Ceramics
Performing ArtsDance * Music * Theatre
Photography
Production & Management Arts
MAA is:
Media Arts & Graphic Design
Create to C onnect
Evaluation
Assessment
Categorization
Interpretation
IdentiEication
Analysis
Description
Reasoning by Logic
Elaboration
Synthesis
Complexity
Awareness
Integration
Creative Thinking Critical Thinking
MedStart Academy@MaranaMed
MedStart Academy Vision:The MedStart Academy prepares compassionate critical thinkers who positively impact the world.
HeadStart with MedStart Healthcare is one of the fastest
growing career sectors. The Health Science and Medical Sector requires academic and technical skills, as well as the related knowledge necessary for the Eield. Workers in this Eield need the knowledge and ability to contribute to the delivery of safe and effective health care.
MedStart is for you if you want to develop:Learning IndependenceContent Knowledge
DisciplineEvaluation
Research and Study SkillsCommunicationOpen-‐mindedness
Transcultural Understanding
MedStart is: Veterinary Science
Nursing
Sports Medicine
Pharmacy EMT / Paramedic
Feel Better
1 in 3 Missing America
will be
short more
than 250,000
health workers
by 2020.
That’s one
third of what’s
needed to
keep us
healthy.
Science & Technology@MaranaS&T
Sci & Tech Academy Vision:Science & Tech prepares students to be responsible and
professional problem-solvers who are knowledgeable about the 21st century careers they will pursue.
Why Stem?STEM learning is an economic imperative. Experts say technical innovation has accounted for nearly half of all U.S. economic growth over the past Eifty years. In the next decade, almost all of the top 30 fastest-‐growing careers will require at least some background in STEM.
Sci & Tech is for you if you want to develop:
Real-‐World ApplicationCreativityInnovation
Critical ThinkingProblem Solving
Organizational SkillsManagement
Technological SkillsAnalytical Skills
Aerospace
Welding
Problem Solvers
Sci & Tech is:
There are
26 MillionSTEM jobs in the U.S. STEM
Science * Technology * Engineering * Mathematics
STEM jobs comprise
20%of all U.S. jobs.
Automotive Technologies
Construction
8th to 9th Grade Summer Bridge:• Participate in Tiger Academy transition program to prepare for high school• Learn study skills and expectations for high school• Attended Freshmen Orientation hosted by MHS Link Leaders
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In 9th Grade: Discovering Your Vision• Take the year-long Freshmen Success Academy (FSA) course• Create an online 10-Year Career & Education Plan• Participate in Academy Advisory mentoring program with upperclassmen• Answer the questions:
• Who Am I?• What Do I Want?• How Do I Get It?
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In 10th Grade: Developing Your Attitudes & Aptitudes• Participate in Academy Advisory mentoring program and:
• Research high-demand careers• Determine appropriate post-secondary option/pathway• Learn about college access & affordability• Envision a productive future through autobiographical writing• Update 10-Year Career & Education Plan
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In 11th Grade: Determining Your Education Path• Participate in Academy Advisory mentoring program and:
• Reaffirm or change chosen career path• Choose a major to match chosen career• Find colleges that offer your major• Prepare for college applications• Update 10-Year Career & Education Plan
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In 12th Grade: Deciding to Act on Your 10-Year Plan• Participate in Academy Advisory mentoring program and:
• Participate in Academy Internships in the community• Apply to college/post-secondary planning• Apply for scholarships and financial aid• Update resume, cover letter, and complete ACE portfolio• Mock interview and job applications• Update 10-Year Career & Education Plan
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End of High School• Graduate with a customized, portable, online • 10-year Career & Education Plan• College Ready: No need for remedial coursework upon entering college• Enter college/post-secondary training with an informed declared major.
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Goal of Post-Secondary Training:• Work in chosen career field• Contribute to community as an informed citizen
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Discover your place.Decide your plan.