iMeck Career Services Newsletter 3.4.19

Jennifer Kennedy
Mar 4, 2019
4 min read

Updated: Mar 5, 2019

ree — Now that CTE Month has come to an end, it is time for registration to begin. Check out our feature story about CTE Month

Upcoming Activities

March 5 - Naviance Resumes

March 5 - CPCC Trip

March 6 - Work keys Practice

March 6 - iMeck Registration Begins

March 8 - Road To Hire Trip

April 4 - Work keys Exam

April 5 - JA Finance Park

For more dates visit our website and sign up for ALL Career Services Activities at bit.ly/iSiGNUP or by clicking the buttons below:

Now that CTE Month has come to an end, it is time for registration to begin. Thursday, February 28th marked the close of a very successful CTE Month. The theme of this years CTE Month was Career Planning. Throughout the month, iMeck Students were able to participate in several Rountable Discussions, Naviance Trainings (Career Mapping) and College Fairs.

Through these activities we were able to fulfill the goal of CTE Month, which is to "raise awareness of the role that CTE has in readying our students for careers and college".

To further drive this goal we announced the inception of our New CTE Pathways. A CTE pathway is a sequence of two or more CTE courses within a student's area of career interest. Pathways are designed to connect high school classes to college, industry certifications, and/or a career.

Beginning in the 2019-2020 school year current 9th and 10th grade, as well any student entering iMeck will be required to enter a CTE Pathway. CTE Pathways offerings will be determined by student responses on the 2019-2020 registration cards.

Currently, we offer The Business Education Pathway, however we are looking to expand our offerings. Therfore, when students in grades 9-10 register for 2019-2020 classes beginning this coming Wednesday (March 5), they will be required to select two of the three pathways below:

Pathway Descriptions

Graphic & Digital Design - A sequence of courses and the use of Adobe Creative Cloud software helps you develop skills in video and image manipulation, web development and visual communication. You develop logos and magazine layouts to help prepare you for Adobe certifications and a career in graphic art and design.
Marketing- This pathway teaches you core content to prepare them for multiple careers in marketing. You incorporate various technologies into courses and gain relevant credentials along with work-based learning/internship experiences.
Business Management- This pathway gives you meaningful instruction for and about business, finance and management. You develop employer-required soft skills including collaboration, computational and critical thinking, economic literacy, entrepreneurial skills, and problem-solving.

In addition to the new courses offered through iMeck, rising 11th and 12th grade students will be offered the opportunity to participate in Career and College Promise.

Career and College Promise

Did you know? That students can be licensed in a prior to graduating High School. Career and College Promise (CCP) gives North Carolina high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to get a "jump start" and earn college credit toward a two-year or four-year degree while still in high school. Students are dually enrolled in their high school and at Central Piedmont Community College, allowing them to receive both high school and college credit for courses taken through the program. Best of all, CCP classes are tuition-free during the fall, spring and summer semesters. (Non-CMS students are responsible for student fees and insurance fees).

Learn more about Career and College Promise at bit.ly/imeckccp

Take A Tour of Naviance

We are excited to announce that our School has launched Naviance. Naviance is a web-based program for students to help plan, organize, and inform the college and career planning process. It is used for college and career preparation, career exploration, and academic planning. More specifically students may use it to request transcripts, college recommendations, and school reports.

For CTE Month iMeck students were introducted to Naviance as a planning tool. This week on Tuesday March 8, iMeck students will create resumes in Naviance. In the near future students in each grade level will also paticipate in the following activities on Naviance.

Grade Level Activities:

9th- Strength Explorers (Pathways)

10th- Personality Assessment

11th-Super Match College Search and Identify Post-Seconday Path

However students and families can start using Naviance by using the information below to log on. Enjoy!

Logging onto Naviance: 1. Go to NC Ed Cloud https://my.ncedcloud.org 2. Log onto your NCEdCloud RapidIdentity account using your credentials. 3. Select the "Clever" icon from the NCEdCloud portal.

4. If prompted, select "Login with NCEdCloud." 5. Select the "Naviance" icon in the Clever portal.

Student password is the same default password as on the school computers.

CTE Month Recap

Law and Public Safety Round Table

CTE Month Trivia

Manufacturing and Engineering Round Table

Information Technology Round Table

Blood Drive

Finance Round Table and Allen University Info Session

Ritz Carlton and JWU Fieldtrip

CIAA Trip

CTE Fair

Stilletto Boss Univeristy: Networking Session

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