September 2016CTE Connections Volume , Issue

As much as you care for your students and your profession, I know by the time Christmas break rolls around you are often ready to run out of the school building. I hope you have a restful break and take time to recharge your batteries for second semester. You are to be commended for the job you do every day.

Wishing you and yours a peaceful and joyous Merry Christmas!

-Julie

Hour of Code

The Twelve Days of Christmas at School Teacher:

On the twelve days of Christmas my students gave to me:

Twelve gray hairs

Eleven sassy words

Ten incorrect answers

Nine happy moments

Eight excuses

Seven eye rolls

Six stunning headaches

Five royal pains

Four repetitive questions

Three borrowed pencils

Two sloppy papers

And a smile in _____ (my class)

Adapted

Students from all over the world, including students

from Shelby County, participated in the Hour of Code global movement as part of the Computer Science

Education Week. These one hour tutorials exposed students to coding. Students could choose from a

variety of activities based on their likes and abilities.

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Calera High School Veteran’s Day Program The JROTC, SGA, band and choir hosted the Veteran’s Day program on Nov 9, 2017. Veterans were greeted by the JROTC cadets and then escorted through an armed Honor Guard Detail to their seats. The band played American Flourish in their honor as well. Retired Major General Edward Ellis USAF was the guest speaker. He was the Commander of the 19th Air Force, Air Education and Training Command, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. The 19th Air Force was composed of more than 31,000 assigned personnel and 1,800 aircraft in 25 units throughout the United States. During the program, the student body recognized the different branches of the military while playing the Tribute to the Armed Forces Medley. At the end of the ceremony, the ROTC retired the colors. Following the ceremony, a reception was held in the media center and students were able to visit with the veterans.

Brookwood Hospital Tour Robotics and Health Science students from CTEC toured Brookwood Hospital. The students were able to hear from the daVinci robot systems operator and were taken to see the robot in a surgical room. The students also heard from the president of the new free standing ER on Highway 280. At the end of the tour, the students were taken to see CyberKnife, a new tool at Brookwood. The robot is leading the way in technology surgeries. The students learned all about the different things the robots can do and were able to see many different careers for robots and health science.

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Shelby County High Ribbon Cutting

Education Connection was held at Shelby County High School on November 15. Students from each program (agriscience, FACS, and business) gave updates and shared experiences from their respective organizations. Several local businesses and community leaders, including Stancil Handley, the mayor of Columbiana attended the event. At the end of the networking hour, a ribbon cutting was held to celebrate the renovated and remodeled kitchen for the Family and Consumer Science classes. The kitchen had not been updated since the early 70s.

Career Fair The Greater Shelby Chamber of Commerce hosted the Career Fair, held at the Shelby County Exhibition Center, for all tenth graders. Students were able to visit three sessions and learn about job responsibilities,

educational requirements, and salary/benefits from a variety of professionals. Students were placed in the

sessions based on their Kuder assessment results and were also able to pick one session of choice. Following

the career fair, the students visited the Shelby County Schools Career Technical Educational Center and observed the classes and programs the school has to offer.

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Financial Literacy Unit for Calera Middle School Calera Middle School students in Mrs. Nelson's class completed a unit on using life

scenarios of fictional income and expense transactions similar to what they will

encounter in real life. The event was sponsored by Educators Credit Unit who

provided the financial unit to the school. At the end of the unit, Educator's Credit Union representative Ms. Georgia Hux presented Finance 101 and facilitated a presentation about the importance of budgeting.

Door Hangers Students in Leslee Hunter’s FACS classes

at Chelsea Middle created door hangers. The project was a collaboration with art students who made the patterns for tracing. The 7th and 8th grade students

traced the pattern, and then cut and painted their door hanger.

Bagging Groceries for Donations Montevallo Middle School FBLA students, sponsor Virginia

Thomas, bagged groceries, returned shopping carts, and greeted customers at Lucky’s groceries in Montevallo. They

accepted donations to raise money for the FBLA competition

held in the spring.

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Officer Training

FBLA, FCCLA, DECA, HOSA, FFA, FTA, TSA and SkillsUSA high school officers from each of the

high schools recently participated in officer training in which students were able to attend several sessions. One session, students got the chance to take a leadership style quiz to see their strengths and weaknesses in leadership. They discussed the value of knowing your

leadership style so that they could be more intentional about the way they lead. Other sessions included officer duties and responsibilities, conducting effective meetings, round table discussions, and competitive events. Kevin Morris, Shelby County Commissioner and Kelli Holmes, University of Montevallo Director of Development, led a fun, interactive

session on how to lead effective meetings. In the round table session, officers were able to

DECA FBLA FFA FTA

FCCLA HOSA

Skills USA TSA

share ideas on fundraising, community service, field trips, and others. In fhe

final session, state officers from FBLA, HOSA, TSA, FCCLA, and DECA discussed ways to get involved in their specific organization as well as how to pick and prepare for competitive events.

Student Spotlight Austin Kelley, a senior at Shelby County

High School, was one of ten students

from SCHS to earn their ServSafe Manager Credential Exam in May 2017. Because of this exam, Austin earned a pay raise at his job and he says that “taking and passing the ServSafe exam

made me realize what I am capable of and has give me the motivation to be a

good leader.” Austin is a member of FCCLA, show choir and honor choir. His

advice to underclassmen is, “No matter how many people tell you that you can’t

do something or that something is too hard, always preserver through the trials you may face.”

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Shelby County Career Tech students always participate in community service activities. This

holiday season has been no different. Students have visited their elementary schools,

collected items to give to the needy, and built projects that benefited their schools.

Operation Christmas Child Students in Stacy Garrett’s and Pam Cofer’s

CTEC Cosmetology classes packed five boxes to send to Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas

Child. They packed one box each for a girl and boy for the ages of 5-9 and 10-14 and one for a toddler, ages 2-4.

FBLA Fall Festival Students in Calera High School FBLA,

sponsor Melissa Ellison, sponsored an after school Fall Festival at Calera Intermediate School. FBLA members

played games with the after school

care students.

Tree Bench The Construction Technology students

at CTEC, under teacher Van White, created a tree bench on their campus

for students to be able to sit at during

break or while waiting for the bus.

Art Displays Student’s in Doug

Forsythe’s carpentry

classes at Calera High School created art stands for the art classes to display their art work.

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Chelsea Middle FBLA Students in Chelsea Middle’s FBLA

chapter collected blankets, fuzzy socks,

lotions and chapsticks and made

Christmas presents for Chelsea Middle

Acres Assisted Living Home. Presents will

be delivered to patients at the home.

FCCLA is All Aboard For

Reading Day The FCCLA Chapter at Shelby County High School

organized a reading day for all of their feeder elementary schools. They visited Wilsonville Elementary, Shelby Elementary, and Elvin Hill

Elementary. The high school students read Christmas books to each class and then made a

craft with each class.

FCCLA Cookie Swap Students in Melinda Gargiulo’s FACs classes baked cookies for a class wide cookie swap.

The students then made goodie bags for all of their support staff at Oak Mountain Middle School. There were a variety of at least 25 cookies. The students made cute tags

for the for cookie bags .

FCCLA Christmas Angel FCCLA sponsored a Salvation Army Christmas Angel and collected $138. Five-year-old Khloe's wish was a Baby Alive doll, so she will be playing with her baby Christmas

morning. In addition, she will receive clothing and shoes.

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Vincent JROTC Military Ball

More than 200 students from Vincent Middle High School gathered on December 2nd, 2017 at the Vincent National Guard Armory for an evening of dining and dancing. 158 JROTC cadets and their dates enjoyed the 2017 Vincent JROTC Military Ball, an annual formal event for the Yellow Jacket Brigade. Male cadets attended the ceremony wearing their full uniforms while the ladies wore formal gowns. The night included a grog bowl ceremony with ingredients significant to Vincent JROTC, a slide show presentation with photos from activities throughout the year, dining, and dancing. The cadet leadership gave brief speeches highlighting the hard work and accomplishments of the first semester. After the grog bowl ceremony, the formal dinner, and the Military Ball Court presentation to the audience, Cadets and their dates danced the rest of the night away.

Photos:

(1) Cadet Sergeant Shelby Hardin adds one of the ingredients to the grog bowl under the supervision of Cadet Command Sergeant Major Jada Kelley during the Vincent Army JROTC Military Ball.

(2) The Military Ball Court of Honor: (L to R): Freshmen representatives Okaris Marandu and Zulema Mendoza, Queen Hope Corley and King Christian Henderson, Sophomore representatives Equashia Jackson and Trestan Smith, and Junior representatives Allie Totten and Chris Hardie.

(3) Students enjoyed dancing at the military ball.

Calera High School Industry Tour Calera High School carpentry students recently visited Alabama Power facility, Sign Faces, and Alabama Dynamics. At Alabama Power, students were able to see how they make, test, and plan the power lines and transformers that bring power to everyone’s houses. The

tour of Sign Faces was an industry tour hosted by the Greater Shelby Chamber of Commerce. On this tour,

students were able to see the steps of sign making

including welding, construction, molds, and detailing and painting. Finally , students were able to see metal working

at Alabama Dynamics. Students were able to see all the machines that are used in the metal working process and discussed safety when working with these machines.

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Montevallo Youth Showcase Montevallo Middle School and Montevallo High School music department and career technical departments hosted a

Montevallo Youth Showcase Monday night, December 4. The FACS department at the high school (teacher Alethea Carter)

created and served refreshments that they served before the show. The middle school FACs students set up a table and talked to guests about AT&T Access/Low cost internet for families that qualify for SNAP. The business classes at both schools (teachers

Samantha Nunn and Virginia Thomas) created flyers, posters, and programs for the event. At the event, they greeted the visitors

and passed out the programs. The choir and band performed with a finale at the end for the audience to join in a song together.

Teacher Shout-outs

Happy Birthday to

Cynthia Walker, Chelsea High School, Dec 9

Dustin Cleckler, Shelby County High School, Dec 12

Michael Shields, Helena High School, Dec 12

Doug Forsythe, Calera High School, Dec 15

Mary Kyser, Vincent Middle High School, Dec 25

Rex Horton, CTEC, Dec 26

Congratulations to Leslee Hunter ant the FACs

classes at Chelsea Middle for being the top sales

chapter of the Farming Feeds Alabama cookbook fundraiser. They won $500 from the Alabama Farmers Agriculture Foundation.

Important Reminders/Dates Work on Business Industry Awareness Hours Hold a CTSO meeting Host an Advisory Meeting Dec 7—Education Connection, Montevallo High

School Dec 16—Send credentialing reports to Amy Lee Jan 10—11—Keeping it Real, Shelby County High

School

Shelby County Schools Career and Technical Education

Students in Shelby County Schools who plan carefully may be placed in high wage, high skill, or high demand occupations by participating in Career and Technical Education. CTE programs are

in all middle schools, high schools, and at the Career Technical Educational Center. Gone are the

days of “trade” or “vocational” schools. The programs are much more technical, rigorous, relevant, and aligned with Business/Industry Standards for the workforce of tomorrow. Students have an opportunity to enter the job market with a high-paying skill or they may continue their

Career Technical Department Please send information on classroom activities, upcom-

ing events, CTSO happenings, pictures, and write-ups on 601 1st Street South any of your current events. We would love to include this

in our newsletter and let the community know more about

your great programs in Career Tech.

Alabaster, AL 35007

Julie Godfrey 682-5251 Dawn Bone 682-5258 Please send to: dbone@shelbyed.org Aubri McClendon LaJuana Hamer Amy Lee 682-5253

The Shelby County Board of Education (SCBOE) does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in employment or educational services, activities, and programs. This district complies with all federal and state laws and regulations regarding discrimination.