Thursday, February 20, 2020

Career and Technical Education Month

FOR ALL STAFF
The West Bend School District joins the State of Wisconsin in celebrating Career and Technical Education Month throughout February. The district is proud to have a wide variety of CTE programming in the areas of Business and Information Technology, Family and Consumer Sciences, and Technology Education. Through the different programs of study, students are able to earn industry certifications, complete work-based learning opportunities through Youth Apprenticeships, and take technical college credit courses right at our high schools. During the 2018-19 school year, students at the high schools took 1,356 technical college credits through their CTE courses, which is the equivalent of $181,975.20 of college tuition that students will not have to pay.

The breadth of programming offered by our high schools allows students to complete course work in the following programs of study: Culinary Arts, Fashion and Design, Early Childhood Education, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Information Technology, Business Administration, Accounting, Graphic Communications, Engineering, Digital Media Production, Architecture and Construction, Manufacturing, and Welding and Automotive.

The district would not be able to offer these programs to our students starting beginning in 7th grade without the excellent CTE teachers leading these programs of study. Thank you to all of our CTE teachers for all you do for our students!