Download Arlington Career Center Students Win Gold, Silver, Bronze at the

MARCH 2016
ARLINGTON
PUBLIC
SCHOOLS
LEARNING THAT WORKS FOR ARLINGTON!
In this Issue:
 SkillsUSA
District V Results
 AYES Mentor
Recognition
Awards Ceremony
 Engineering camp
for W-L students
 REEP open house
Arlington Career Center Students Win Gold, Silver, Bronze at the
2016 SkillsUSA District V Leadership and Skills Competition
A group of 51 students representing different programs from the Arlington Career Center recently participated in the
Northern Virginia SkillsUSA District V Competition which started at Edison Academy in Fairfax, VA on February5 th
and ended on February 13th at various sites throughout Northern Virginia. ACC students participated in a total of 13
contests, earning 87 medals. All of the gold
Competition
Finish
medalists are eligible to compete in Fredericksburg,
VA for the SkillsUSA State Championships on
Advertising Design
Gold (3)
April 15-16.
Auto Maintenance
1 Gold, 1 Silver
Automotive Refinishing
Technology
Automotive Service Technology
1 Gold, 1 Silver
Broadcast News
Gold (12)
Cosmetology
Gold (3)
Culinary Arts
1 Gold, 1 Silver
Early Childhood Education
5 Gold, 1 Silver
Students editing video for the Television
(Video) Production contest
Nail Care Technology
Gold (2)
Residential Wiring
Gold (5)
The Automotive Youth Educational
Systems (AYES) Mentor Recognition
Awards Ceremony took place on Thursday,
Television (Video) Production
6 Gold, 2 Silver, 2 Bronze
Television production Cut Only
14 Gold, 8 Silver
Television production
Special Effects
6 Gold, 6 Silver, 4 Bronze
 FBLA students
attend Wizards
Sport Career Day
 FACS in the news
 Adam Nesbitt
Robotics
Challenge at the
Career Center
February 25th from 6-9 PM at Mercedes Benz of
Arlington.
Questions/
Comments:
Kris Martini
Director
Career, Technical
& Adult
Education
703-228-7209
Mentors were honored with a gold wrench from
Snap-on Tools as a thank you for the time they
spent with Arlington Career Center Automotive
students over the summer during their eight week
paid internships at local automotive dealerships
and repair shops. Each of the AYES mentors, all
Master Auto Technicians, worked closely with
the students during their internships doing a
variety of live work on customer vehicles.
1 Gold, 1 Silver
Six Washington-Lee High School Engineering
students attended a one day mini-engineering camp for high
school girls offered annually by Widener University in Chester,
PA. Girls from several surrounding states come together for a
common interest in engineering where they are able to work with
professionals in various fields of engineering. The girls are able
to register for labs they feel are of most interest to them and are
then organized into lab groups; where they participate in four
different labs throughout
the day. Girls attend a
panel session where they
are able to ask questions
to current female
engineering students to
gain perspective into
studying engineering in
college and what it is
like.
Photo of Ms. Meyer with her students
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An open house celebrating REEP’s 40 years of
providing English classes drew several hundred visitors
to the Syphax Education Center on February 11 th.
Supporters, school and county officials, neighbors and
students came to look at a wide array of student-produced
work and mementoes from the program’s history going back
to 1976, when REEP was founded as a demonstration project
to help newly arrived Vietnamese refugees in Arlington.
Staff gave out information about volunteering in classes and
sold copies of a newly published cookbook, “An International
Buffet,” which students contributed recipes to. A number of
students taught visitors phrases from their languages, such as,
“Nada es imposible,” (Nothing is impossible – in Spanish) or
“Volim te,” (I love you – in Serbian). Other students wrote
visitors’ names in their own alphabets, such as Arabic or Thai.
It was a good chance to
reflect on the program’s
accomplishments over the
years and to remember
some of the tens of
thousands of learners who
have studied at REEP over
four decades.
SIOP Component of the Month:
Practice and Application
written by Kati Costar
The Practice and Application component of SIOP includes
opportunities for students to use hands-on materials, apply
content and language knowledge, and integrate skills from all
four language domains.
Some aspects of this component are standard practice for
many CTE teachers. The very nature of the course content and
competencies relies on hands-on materials and application of
content knowledge. However, building the application of
language knowledge and the integration of language skills
into lessons can be difficult – ‘doing’ does not always lend
itself to speaking or writing.
Adding a reflection piece to the end of a lesson or unit is a
way to incorporate more language into any content area. Use
of key vocabulary can be required and sentence frames or
starters can be provided for lower level ELLs. If the reflection
is written, students can share their ideas with partners first.
These pieces can also be used as quick checks for student
understanding.
School Board president Emma
Violand-Sanchez (left) looks
at an article about REEP’s
early days with Inaam
Mansoor, the retired director
of the program.
Eighth grade students in Ms. Winkey’s Business
class at Gunston had a guest teacher on February 18th to
celebrate CTE month. Former student, and currently a junior
at Washington –Lee High
School, Ricardo Mestre,
visited the classroom to
share what he learned at
Gunston. He presented a
seminar to the class on
Financial Literacy and
Investing for Teens .
Ricardo, who operates the
Investing Club at W-L,
will be exploring six more lessons in the classroom.
For more: http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2012/05/01/
tln_ferlazzo_hullsypnieski.html
For previously shared vocabulary activities that incorporate
the four language domains: www.goo.gl/vuqvxE
Middle school FBLA students at H-B Woodlawn
attended the Wizards Sports
Career Day on February 19th.
Students had the opportunity to
hear from several executives
who spoke about the structure of
the sports organization, the roles
of each department, and they
offered advice to students
interested in a career within
professional sports. The event
also included a basketball game
and a college fair.
A recent article in the Washington Post featured an Arlington student’s experience with a RealCare
Baby while taking Child Development at Yorktown High School. The Family and Consumer Sciences programs
at both the middle and high schools use the RealCare babies to give students a realistic experience of the responsibilities of
parenting. The article, written by Sheryl Stein, a freelance writer in Arlington and parent, shares her daughter’s experience with
the programmable baby over a three day weekend, stating that the experience left her daughter feeling as if she had been through
a war. To read the entire article, click here.
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Home Living students at the Stratford
Program made heart-shaped red velvet cupcakes by
placing a marble between the paper liner and the
muffin tin, as shown, to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
One class also made
heart-shaped apple
corn muffins by adding
freshly chopped apple
to the corn bread batter
for a more nutritious
corn muffin.
CTAE on Twitter @APS_CTAE
To celebrate CTE month, we had a Twitter storm on Friday,
February 28th #APSCTEmonth. Here are some of the tweets:
A volunteer panel of Yorktown staff and parents
helped Child Development students to further
investigate the effect culture has on parenting practices. Prior to
the panel taking place, students read excerpts from the books,
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bébé. They
each researched the parenting practices of one particular country,
and compared and contrasted them to typical “Western style”
parenting. Panel members
were asked questions related
to family leave, co-sleeping,
nutrition and food, values,
discipline, education, and
child care.
The Adam Nesbitt Lego EV3 Robotics Challenge
was held on February 27th at the Arlington Career Center to honor
our former Gunston Middle School Technology Education
teacher. Four Arlington middle school teams and one elementary
team provided over 40 participants. There were also many high
school volunteers, over 15 adult volunteers, and dozens of parents
that participated. All of the students and many of the parents
toured the Arlington Tech / Arlington Career Center Labs during
the lunch break.
School Board members, our Superintendent Dr. Murphy, and even
the Sun Gazette visited throughout the day. The project was a the
outcome of two years of robotics partnerships at Gunston Middle
School through Edu-Futuro, the Office of Minority Achievement,
and the STEM programs within the Office of Career, Technical
and Adult Education.
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