By AUSD Digital Communications Intern Danielle Workman ARCADIA-- For over 50 years, Arcadia High School has offered a variety of Career Technical Education (CTE) courses, allowing students to gain hands-on experience in a multitude of fields and majors.
“CTE courses offer students opportunities to learn differently from other classes and use different parts of the brain,” said Ing Mu, a CTE Graphic Design teacher at Arcadia High School. “Most of our CTE courses are hands-on project-based classes. Our courses focus on a particular career path and students learn the specific needs and knowledge required of that field. There are lots of opportunities to problem solve using multiple methods,” elaborated Mu. Arcadia High’s CTE courses come in “pathways”, where two or more classes related to the same subject are taken sequentially. The courses within a pathway are categorized by three distinct levels— “Introductory”, or beginning course, “Concentrator”, which is the equivalent of an intermediate course, and “Capstone”, the final and most advanced course in a pathway. “The pathways that we have include engineering, graphic design, computer science, dance, stagecraft, video production, and sports medicine,” said Breanne Genite, Arcadia High School CTE Coordinator.
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By AUSD Digital Communications Intern Bethany Chow ARCADIA-- “They had over 600 students interested, and anything that engages over 20% of our student population is something I want to really look into supporting,” said Arcadia High Principal Angie Dillman. Dillman is referring to student interest for Arcadia High School’s League of Legends Esports team. Despite it being the team’s first year competing, Arcadia High’s Esports team recently won second place in the Fall Season of the League of Legends California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Esports Initiative Championships in December 2021
By AUSD Digital Communications Intern Anvitha Marlapati Since Nov. 30, 2021, Newkirk and her team have hosted a total of six6 vaccine clinics at three different school sites, vaccinating almost 1,500 people.
The Arcadia Unified School District (AUSD) opened up full-time, in-person instruction on Aug. 11, 2021, which has proven to be no small feat.With waxing and waning surges of COVID-19 cases occurring throughout LA County, bringing back all students to classrooms posed some understandable anticipation and worry. Tackling the spread of this virus while finding ways for in-person instruction to happen safely has been a hefty task and would be difficult to for Arcadia Unified to accomplish without the support and expertise of its Health Services team, which is led by District Nurse Manager Erica Newkirk. Staying updated on the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) Orders, advocating for the health and safety of the district, contact tracing, arranging for testing support, and looking into vaccination clinics once COVID-19 vaccinations became available for students are just a few of the many tasks Arcadia Unified’s Health Services team support student, staff, and family health and safety for the district. |
DCI Interns on the news writing team publish articles that are often published on local newspapers, such as Arcadia Patch and the Arcadia Weekly. The articles, ranging in subject, dive into the AUSD world and cover events, opportunities, news, and first-hand accounts of unique stories in the community.
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