DDE Academy Teachers: CPA Conference in Sacramento

Monday, March 7, 2011

CPA Conference in Sacramento

Great time was had by all and we got lots' of work done:

Spent time collaborating on projects
Spent time talking about students and how we could help them
Spent time talking about next years teachers for the Academy
Spent time talking about the team building outing we want to have in the summer
Spent time sharing the workshops we all went to so all could benefit from them

James rocked our presentation on "Building an Academy Family- Strategies and Structures that Can't Fail"

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UnknownMarch 8, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Standing room only at your presentation - great job, Everyone!
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Digital Design and Engineering Academy

The Digital Design and Engineering Academy represent a high school reform movement that is focused on smaller learning communities with a career theme. Academy components include rigorous academics and career technical education, with a career focus, a committed team of teachers, and active business and post-secondary partnerships. Emphasis is also placed on student achievement and positive postsecondary outcomes. Academies have been carefully evaluated and shown to have positive impacts on school performance. The integration of a standards-based academic and career-technical curriculum is a key ingredient. Students will follow distinct career pathway choices as well as core classes that support those pathways. Career choices include, Engineering (the creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes), Video and Broadcasting Production, Graphic Design (book and magazine layouts, business logos and advertisement), Fashion and Room Design, Video Game Design, Web Design, Computer Generated Animation for the Entertainment Industry including 2D and 3D Animation, and Simulation software development (for Business, Military, Law, Science, and Medical

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CPA Conference in Sacramento

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