March Monthly Update
Career Center Campus
Hello March
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📆 Our Schedule For March
Parent-Teacher Conferences ✔️
Parent-Teacher Conferences
March 13th
3:30-7:30pm
Looking forward to seeing you!
No School 🛑
No School March 14th MS/HS InService
No School March 15th Teacher Workday
SPRING BREAK 🌺🏝️ March 18th-22nd
Holidays
⏰ Daylight Savings Spring Forward-March 10th
☘️St. Patrick's Day-March 17th
🐰Happy Easter-March 31st
S.W.A.P Annual Youth Career and Resource Fair
SWAP Annual Youth Career and Resource Fair
Thursday, Mar 14, 2024, 09:00 AM
2935 North Avenue, Grand Junction, CO, USA
Prom Wear Give Away👗
Valley CTSO ACE Presents the....
With prom right around the corner, no better way to find your perfect outfit then to come by Career Center Building D 2935 North Avenue on Saturday March 9th and 10th from 9am-3pm. Rainbow closet Saturday 3pm-5pm. For more Information click on flyer, or email FreeProm@gmail.com Open to all D51 students.
🙌 Weekly Shout-Outs
February Students of the Month
Congratulations: Bailey Allen, Sebastion Nelson, Kaedyn Nielsen, Jeremiah Roper, Alex Quintana, Tyler Clark, Sofia Ramos, Linzee Sadler, Andres Palazuelos. Alfonso Montoya, Kamdyn Stahl, Cooper Montes, Xak Wiegart, and Kyler Jones!
Platinum Certificate Earners
Platinum is the highest score you can receive! Congratulations to Davian Rivera, Cooper Christian, Zavier Baker
Altrusa Scholarship
Congratulations to Eternity Snyder on winning the Altrusa Scholarship. We are super proud!
February CTE Month Spotlight💡
Compact Engines
From the Teacher ....
Celebrations Program News🎊
Health Science Program 🩺
Health Science Program Shines at HOSA State Leadership Conference
Congratulations to Lane, Summer and the Health Science Program on a very successful state competition in February! There were over 1600 participants and our students shined!
Career Display- 1st Place🥇
CPR- Top 10
Nursing Assistant- Top 10
Phlebotomy- Top 10
Horticulture Spotlight📢
Superintendent Visits CC Campus
Meet Elway. Elway is a student at Fruita Monument High School and today I had the opportunity to meet him at the Career Center, thanks to an invite form Principal McClaskey. Elway is taking classes at Career Center through the horticulture program, and this year he combined art and hydroponics to create a multilevel nutrient culture hydroponic system based on a sketch that a student created last year but never built. More importantly, Elway was open and honest with me about the struggles he has had in school in the past and how the hands-on learning at Career Center has created and engaging experience and a desire to finish high school. It was awesome to see his face light up as he shared with me what he had built. Shoutout to Elway for being awesome, and shoutout to all the D51 teachers and staff who find ways to engage our students so that they can reach their full potential, regardless of their path! (Instagram post from Dr. Hill)
Valentines Success💕
The students in horticulture had another successful year creating beautiful arrangements from single roses, to a dozen roses, to outstanding over the top bouquets and selling over 200 floral arrangements.. Thank you to all the students, D51 staff, and community for all your support. Without you, these students couldn't engage on the hands-on learning we offer here at Career Center! Also, as always we can do arrangements all through the year for your special occasion.🌺
Culinary Arts 🍽️
Congratulations to all the Culinary Art students that studied and passed the ServSafe Certification test! This is one of the Industry Certification that the students in Culinary have an opportunity to earn. This certification can help them gain employability and help them with their pathway to a career.
Early Childcare 🍼
Newsletter By: Dailyn Guerrero-Orozco (ECP)
In the month of February the ECP classroom has been focusing on using resources such as CDA packets to learn about different types of play, benefits of development, and guidance teaching strategies for young children.
In the month of February the Early Childhood Program:
- Understanding of the importance of Messy Play- Messy play promotes engagement with senses and can help them with self control and regulation, cognitive and intellectual skills, such as problem-solving, critical thinking, awareness of surroundings, and a a sense of self and recognition. The Career Center program focuses on appropriate messy play activities that follow preschools curriculum and area of development that are hands on.
- Researching Creating and Practicing Play Centers and Lessons plans- Lesson plans that help children with language development by acting out different roles and scenarios, movement, and music. Structured Dramatic Play is a form of dramatic play where a scenario or theme is created and has special guidelines and rules that have predictable outcomes. Unstructured Dramatic Play is a form of dramatic play that gives children freedom and choices to play and design their own environment, scenarios, and characters. The Career Center Program focuses on creating Dramatic Play Lessons, Block Center Lesson Plans, and Music Lesson Plans that follow preschool curriculum and are developmentally effective and creative.
- Reviewing and Practicing CDA Packets and Resources- Early Childhood Education has been focusing on observing and applying appropriate and effective teaching strategies. Teaching strategies include, planning and creating a safe environment for young children. Advancing and supporting young children's physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development. Building connections with young children and maintaining a commitment of professionalism.
Companion Animal Care 🐕🦺
Companion Animal Care students are staying driven second semester. We just completed Veterinary CPR certifications with over 90% of students earning their certificate. The students are now certified with American Heart Association Basic Life Support and Veterinary CPR so they are prepared to help in an emergency with either humans or animals. The students are still grooming dogs for the public with the new procedure of only having dogs of one household at a time to prevent the spread of the respiratory disease present in Colorado. We are geared up going strong and are currently working on a Veterinary Receptionist Certificate.
InSTEPS 🐝
Happy March! As we transition from winter to spring, InSTEPS has been buzzing with excitement and engaging activities. Here's a glimpse of what's been happening and what's coming up:
Last month we went on several community outings. We shopped and ate at Mesa Mall, snow-shoed at Powderhorn Mountain Resort and swam at the Fruita Rec Center. March is the month of inclusion and we look forward to celebrating Inclusion Day with Career Center/ Valley Campus. People with intellectual or developmental disabilities still face exclusion, isolation and social abuse in school, at work and even at home! Let's "Go All In" and speak up against the wrong and demeaning actions/words and instead speak words of encouragement and kindness. #spreadinclusion
The Best Place To Work🏫
Welcome
Please join us in welcoming Byron Thurston to our staff! Byron will be working with Chef Horn in the Culinary Program. Byron is a CHS graduate and just earned his Bachelors from CMU with an Anthropology degree. He is looking forward to joining our staff.
Staff Picture
Thank you to all the amazing staff here at Career Center Campus. We appreciate your dedication to the students, district, and community!
💡 Reminders
1. Open Enrollment
Thinking of working with your hands while earning credit for graduation? Open Enrollment for the Career Center Campus is now open. Click the Button Below and sign up for classes that interest you! Be sure to use your D51 email account to access, or you will not get permissions to fill out form. Find your passion at Career Center!
2. Lunch Lizard 🥗
Reminder: Due to the Lizard breakfast, we are starting class at 8:25am. Please do NOT take attendance prior to 8:25am. Any student arriving after 8:25am should be marked tardy. Thank you. We have sent communication to parents with this expectation.
3. Stay Informed📰
One of the best ways to stay informed is to follow us on Facebook. The monthly newsletter is always posted there. It's a great way to see your student engaged in hands-on learning. Check us out.
4. Motivational Message
Gearing towards the end of the school year, its normal to start feeling a little run down for teachers and students. Always try and remember the importance of why we do what we do. Nothing better than being an inspiration and helping all students reach their potential and thrive.