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S/O to GR Lewis, Construction teacher at Fulton HS and KCS_EPP program completer from Cohort 1, who spoke today at the Coaches Network meeting to ELA instructional coaches abt successfully incorporating literacy in his CTE classes. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

February is Career & Technical Education (CTE) Month! 🎉 A time to celebrate the hands-on learning, real-world skills, and career pathways that prepare students for success. We are so proud of the work being done across KCS! 📷 #CareerReady #CTEWorks

The 865 Academies are a series of career-themed academies in each KCS high school that align academic and occupational experiences to support career readiness and personal development. These experiences lead to real opportunities for our students! #CTEMonth #CTEWorks

Cohort 3’s last EPP Learning Day!! 🎓So close to graduation!🎓They reviewed questioning & how to best manage project work before working on their own culminating portfolios today. What a great group of educators! Judy Siebert

Last week at Bearden HS: KCS_EPP coaching visits to 2 Health Science 🧪 , one MLR 🚘 & one Computer Science 💻 teacher. They engaged their students in hands-on projects, doing research, and game like test reviews. Go Bulldogs! Bearden High School

Tracey and Kayla teach Health Science at Hardin Valley Academy and Kara is a Cosmetology instructor at Austin East. Our CTE Department is proud to have such wonderful educators who also pour into their new colleagues! Kirk Renegar, Ed. D. Austin-East HS

We've been able to do many great things with the #ISM grant, and the Farragut Print Shop at Farragut MS is a prime example! These middle school students are BLOWING ME AWAY with their skills and creativity! Great job to Mr. Fogarty and the Admiral team! Knox County Schools

This week’s KCS_EPP coaching visits: Ms Lindsay’s Health Science class, Mr Gosnell’s Electrical students & Mr Pearson’s AV Production class. Each visit is followed up with a coaching conversation & goal setting. Last time for these 3 as they graduate in April! 🎓🎓🎓

Last night at Sarah Simpson: EPP Instructor Judy Siebert has gathered her Cohort 4 candidates to focus on including CTSO activities in their CTE classrooms & to prep their students for competitions, all part of getting them college and career ready! 🎓🔨

This month, Judy Siebert and I enjoyed getting back into some of our wonderful Health Science teachers’ classrooms in Knox County! Ms Shular at Central, Anderson at Fulton, Jones at Farragut & Mitchell at Powell teach with passion & joy and the students love it!! Knox County CTE 🚑🫀🩺

Wondering if a career change is for you? These new teachers did it & get support from the KCS_EPP: Ms Andrews-Health Science, Mr Stewart-Criminal Justice, Mr Dyer-Fire Safety & Ms Campbell-Business! Join Knox County Schools! We’re staffing for 2025-26 now! Knox County CTE TeachKnox

… and the graduates exhibited their awesome final portfolios 👏🏻 The room was also filled with mentors, CTE Directors & school administrators who supported the graduates on their journey. Thank you to everyone on the team!! 🎉

Nine of the graduating candidates work for our department Knox County Schools!👏🏻🎉

Wrapping up KCS_EPP coaching visits as our teachers wrap up this school year. Ms Pipkin’s students work on the endocrine system🧪 & Mr Hicks’ review for the AP exam 💻 at Bearden. At TSD, Ms Rednour‘s students design T-shirts 👕 & Ms Tussey‘s made herb butter for their steaks 😋

... to our dedicated teachers in the KCS_EPP! We applaud you for spending countless hours in your classrooms, workshops, and labs working to set students on a path to success via CTE. Thank you! #WhyTeachTN  #TNSupportsTeachers

With a category for Early CTE Professionals (2-5 yrs in teaching), many of our candidates qualify to apply!! Knox County CTE TN ACTE ACTE

Congratulations, Ulla!!

Let’s go!!

Several of our Knox County Schools CTE teachers are right there! 👋🏼

Many of our new KCS CTE instructors were there, too! Looking forward to having them back next school year!!