we are FEATURED STORIES: Navistar : 52 Olli the Trolley: 51 Skills USA International: 41 we are contents inside the cover ISSUE 1 • VOLUME XVI evitIssue 1, Vol. XVI In August, EVIT welcomed back students and teachers with a theme 4-7 Trained, Credentialed, Placed for the 2018-19 school year based on the popular EDITORIAL Carrie Underwood song -- CeCe Todd 10 We Are EVIT Champion: Public Information Offi cer “I am invincible, DESIGN 12 Two Sisters Two Career Paths unbreakable Tara Tingey, Communication Specialist Unstoppable, unshakeable 14 Design Student Becomes Design Teacher They knock me down, I get PHOTOGRAPHY up again Tara Tingey & Patrick Jervis 16 A Family's Passion for Career Education I am the champion …” PUBLISHER East Valley Institute of Technology 18 Mother & Son Find Career Success In a semester chock-full Public Information & Marketing Offi ce [email protected] of learning, activities and challenges, EVIT’s teachers, staff and 20-51 EVIT Happenings students have more than lived up to those lyrics. 22 August The growing Diesel Tech 23 September program accepted the donation of fi ve commercial big rig trucks worth more than $400,000. The 26 October Culinary School @ EVIT prepared and served a fantastic gourmet breakfast for hundreds of people who raised over $115,000 for the EVIT Education 36 November Foundation. Students and teachers marched with the EVIT fl oat in parades in Mesa, Gilbert and Fountain Hills. Cyber Security student Mawadda 47 December Abuhamda and alum Jason McGee were selected to represent the United States on the 2019 National SkillsUSA World Team when it competes in Russia next year. And, our health students in HOSA Future Health Professionals became true heroes, placing fi rst among large schools in 52 Navistar Donation Arizona for registering organ, eye and tissue donors for the Donor Network of Arizona. Follow us! In addition, residents of Cave Creek Unifi ed School District voted to join 54-61 EVIT News in Briefs the EVIT Career Technical Education District (CTED), and EVIT became the fi rst high school campus in the nation to be chosen by Chandler-based the real prep school manufacturing company Local Motors to host two autonomous trolleys that 62 Fountain Hills Campus will shuttle students, staff and visitors around the Main Campus in the spring semester. careerevit and college prep Dr. A. Keith Crandell (Main) Campus Those are just a few highlights. Every day, our EVIT family exemplifi es the 1601 W. Main Street 64-71 EVIT Satellite Programs spirit of a champion. Mesa, AZ 85201 East Campus We are invincible and unbreakable. We are unstoppable and unshakeable. 6625 S. Power Road Mesa, AZ 85212 We are EVIT. (480) 461-4000 • www.evit.com 2 | we are evit • Issue 1, Vol. XVI Issue 1, Vol. XVI • we are evit | 3 schools in the CTED’s member school districts. CTE transferable skills that will bene t them as they move into can also be o ered at high schools in districts that are adulthood.” not members of CTEDs. But CTED programs – central campus and satellite – receive additional state funding In North Carolina, Kimberly MacDonald, senior to operate, while non-CTED programs do not. Downey analyst for state and federal reporting in CTE at the maintains the extra tax dollars obligate EVIT to provide state Department of Public Instruction, said her state added value in its CTE programs. “We need to do acknowledges that many industry-recognized skills are everything we can to ensure that students complete their transferrable skills that can apply to other industries. Trained, program and that every student leaves EVIT not only “North Carolina CTE encourages multiple entry points with the skills to do the job, but with a portable industry and exit points throughout the student’s pathway … If a certi cation that tells employers they are ready to do student masters the skills and moves his/her pathway to the job,” she said. “We are not where we should be yet in an applicable industry, we consider the program to be credentialed, making this happen, but we work toward it every day. successful,” she said. Our students deserve no less. It’s the right thing to North Carolina teachers d o.” track placement results (students going on to placed But not all CTE programs college, jobs or military within the EVIT CTED related to their CTE share the same goal. In some program) of former students districts, CTE programs who were CTE concentrators at Arizona State University published what many have been serving more – de ned by North Carolina considered to be the rst comprehensive look at CTE areer and technical education is o en lauded for as electives than a formal as secondary students who C in the Grand Canyon state. e study by Sapna Gupta pathway to certi cation and earn four or more credits in its ability to make learning relevant and give students identi ed a number of challenges, including the absence a jump-start on college and career. But how do you career, making it di cult a single CTE cluster, one of of data to measure outcomes and a state system that measure its success? to compare outcomes. Joe which is in a secondary-level nancially incentivizes public schools “to maximize O’Reilly, former executive course, MacDonald said. e the number of students in seats – regardless of whether In a series of meetings last school year, CTE director of research for Mesa results are then validated by students would be better served by engaging in o - administrators in Arizona grappled with how to grade Public Schools, Arizona’s instructional management campus work-based internships or by taking a half-day the state’s CTE programs. Required by state law, the largest school district coordinators at each local class in a (career and technical education) central letter grades were intended to arm parents with the and one of 10 districts education agency. campus. is points to the urgent need to examine how information they would need to nd quality CTE in the EVIT CTED, said the state allocates education funds and the necessity of programs for their child. Considerable debate ensued the expected outcome Arizona teachers also a statewide longitudinal data system that will measure over which criteria – graduation, CTE program also depends on the program. “In CTE in high school, track their placement results, which are sent to the student performance and outcomes from preschool to completion, placement or industry certi cation rates for some, success is getting into this career … but for state Department of Education, and based on Arizona’s entering the workforce.” – should carry the most weight in determining grades. many CTE programs you’re not getting ‘career-ready’ de nition of concentrator – a secondary student who ere was disagreement on whether grades should be as much as you are getting ready to be career-ready has transcripted two or more Carnegie Units/credits in In an interview for this article, Gupta expressed given at a district or school level, prompting legislation because you will need additional training and education a state designated sequence in an approved Career and frustration that while individual schools have their own in January to require that each campus providing CTE to be successful,” said O’Reilly, who le Mesa last spring Technical Education program. at de nition, Downey data systems, there still is not one system for all schools be given its own letter grade. More debate and lobbying to become the director of the Decision Center for said, is a better t for the satellite CTE programs, which in Arizona. She pointed to Arizona’s current Achieve ensued, resulting in a strike-everything amendment Educational Excellence at Arizona State University. are usually about 50 minutes long each day, than for 60 AZ initiative, led by Gov. Doug Ducey’s o ce, to that would eliminate the requirement for letter grades central campuses like EVIT, where students receive 2 ensure that 60 percent of Arizonans 25 and older have altogether, but the bill never made it out of committee. Some CTE administrators in Arizona maintain a program a certi cate or college degree by 2030. “How do you is successful if it introduces students to career possibilities measure all this? If you can’t measure it, you can’t x it,” “Without outcomes, CTE is just another elective,” said and teaches them the so-called so skills that employers Gupta said. Dr. Sally Downey, superintendent of the East Valley value, such as communication skills and team work, even Institute of Technology, which provides over 40 CTE if they never work in the industry in which they studied. e dearth of data isn’t a problem that’s unique to programs for high school students and adults. “CTE Educators in some other states share similar views. Arizona. In a 2017 report, e Brookings Institute noted outcomes shouldn’t be di cult to measure. Did the that the past 10 years have brought a renewed interest student complete their program and earn an industry Patrick Biggersta , director of career and technical nationwide in CTE. “Unfortunately, research on CTE credential or license? Did they get a job related to education and adult education at Area 31 Career has not kept pace with policy interest.” their CTE program? Did they go to college or join the Programs in Indianapolis: “I consider schools’ programs military? All of those things are measureable. But the to be successful if they help students to develop skills Di erent models, de nitions. Same goals? devil is always in the details, especially when those and understandings that are relevant to their future details involve taxpayer dollars and politics.” lives.