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Representatives from Tennessee are attending the National Policy Seminar in Washington DC this week, advocating for Career & Technical Education and its sustained funding and support.ACTE Public Policy ACTER

Interested in making a difference? 💡 Join us at the KCS Recruitment Fair on April 6 at West High. Explore exciting opportunities for teachers & support staff, connect with school leaders, & discover the perks awaiting you.🚀 Visit knoxschools.org/recruitmentfair for details.

Welding and MLR students had a great day competing at the Top Wrench competition. I can’t wait to see what bright futures these students have. Their professionalism and competitiveness is inspiring! Jess Sherrod David Collins Steve Killian

The KCS_EPP is at the Knox County Schools Job Fair this morning! If you are an industry professional pondering a job change to teach your trade, come talk to me! 🙂 From A as Automotive to W as in Welding and almost anything in between - get your teaching license through us!

As part of The 865 Academies FarragutHS Engineering students visited Oak Ridge Lab for their industry experience. Students toured Building Technologies, Frontier and Summit supercomputers, and Remote Handling while learning from world-class scientists about a day in the life at ORNL

☀️ Eclipse or not, KCS_EPP Cohort 3 met tonight at Sarah Simpson to discuss CTSOs & being an advisor to students. Important when it comes to next course selection which is going on in schools right now & recruiting students 😊 This is JiT instruction in our program! 💪🏼

Congratulations, Lynn, James, Brock and Paul!! 🎉 Well done! 👏🏻

Ms Cooper Harriman High School invited me to speak with her TAP class today abt becoming a CTE teacher-I got share abt my love for TEACHING & CTE 😃 They also do a project on theorists similar to our candidates in the KCS_EPP 💚 Plus, I got to see Marc again! Thank you for having me!

We see you working hard during your summer break, KCS CTE teachers Barry, Cindi, Michelle, Jeremiah, Tara, Tiffany, and more! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Day 5 of KCS_EPP’s June Intensive for Cohort 3 dealt w/preparing to create a positive classroom culture again when the school year starts & actively practicing engagement strategies like a vocab warm up and the Carousel. More than colleagues, professional friends!! 😊

Enjoying some WBL Recertification Training today at Roane State Community College and touring the Simulated Nursing Lab.

18 of these new CTE instructors are ours!! 👏🏻

Day 3 of Intensive Induction for our Cohort 4 is today! They are already knee deep in writing their syllabi 👏🏻 Thank you to Fulton HS for hosting us again this year! John Derek Faulconer, Ed.D.

The school year has officially begun for all!!🎉 We’re welcoming students on their first day and I’m checking in with my KCS_EPP teachers, Tara & Erin, and their mentor Aimee Perry. Barry & Harrison are in the CTE Bldg. w/mentor Adam Dyer 👏🏻 Go Bearden High School!!!

One of our EPP Candidates is featured on the TeachKnox website 😃 Mr Pearson teaches AV Production Austin-East HS and talks abt his transition from working in the industry to teaching it now in the classroom: 👏🏻 m.youtube.com/watch?v=MfJtYK…

Preparations for JA of East Tennessee’s Miss Business event kicked off yesterday w/ a partner luncheon at the Cherokee Country Club. Sarah & I proudly support its cause & will again bring Knox County CTE students to the event, so the girls can learn to network & meet female executives.

Today, Cohort 3 gave their presentations on Education and Behavioral Theorists 👏🏻 Great job, everyone! Judy Siebert also revisited assessments with them and had them work on authentic tasks for their professional portfolio. They got a lot done today!! 😅

Check out this article in Education Week! Our EPP’s primary partner Knox County Schools had nearly 0 teacher vacancies at the beginning of the school year! Their Talent Acquisition team, led by Alex Moseman, considers our EPP one “important part in this orchestra” of hiring strategies!

What a landing! 🚁 This morning, a UT Lifestar helicopter touched down at Powell High School, giving students in Aviation classes and the Academy of Health Science & Human Services a hands-on learning experience! 🙌