Sunday, September 27, 2020

Hosting AASA Redefining Ready Virtual Tour

 

West Valley School District was luck to host the AASA Redefining Ready Virtual Tour today.  

AASA Redefining Ready Cohort members learned about four important topics in how West Valley can best serve our students.  

Learn more about Redefining Ready Here:

https://www.redefiningready.org/ 

Forecast 5

Attendees learned how West Valley is using Student Engagement Data through virtual learning to ensure no student is lost.  Dr. Adam Cibulka showed attendees how Forecast 5 is able to pull engagement data to enable principals to build personal interventions for students.  

Forecast 5 has been instrumental in measuring how we can identify the needs of our students and build interventions aligned to the West Valley Five Steps to Student Success.  

Core Plus Aerospace

Dan Parker from the Boeing Company presented on the highly rigorous statewide program, Core Plus Aerospace.  Students in West Valley begin Core Plus in the seventh grade learning about lean manufacturing principles and material science.  In high school, students learn about aerospace manufacturing principles culminating in a registered apprenticeship with AJAC, the Aerospace Joint Apprenticeship Committee,.  

Microsoft Certification with CCI Learning 

All seventh graders can earn their Microsoft Office Specialist certification at West Valley Junior High.  From West Valley's one to one initiative we felt that digital literacy would be absolutely essential for our students.  The Microsoft Imagine Academy certifications were the beset solution to help students meet this new challenge.

In eighth grade, student have the ability to earn their Python coding certification through Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA).  Microsoft certification is one of the career exploration options available to students at West Valley Junior High.

Grow Your Own

Students in their junior year of high school can enroll in West Valley's Para Educator certification program.  Students selected can work toward and be hired as para educators in the West Valley School District.  As part of our larger 'Grow Your Own,' initiative, as paras, students can enrolled in the Para Educator Registered Apprenticeship where they can earn their AA degree at 50% tuition.  Paras with their AA can enroll in the Yakima Valley College, Bachelors of Applied Science of Teacher Education, earning their K8 teaching certification. 

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