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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 Page 1 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. Page 2 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. Page 3