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Your Opinion Matters!!!  Take the 2011-12 Career Academy Student Survey Open until June 6, 2012. Career AcademyJUNIORS:  Where are you headed next? CareerPathwaysJuniorSurvey2012 St. Johns County Academy of Future Teachers Bring Home Honors For the 5th year in a row, students from the Academy of Future Teachers at St. Augustine High School have attended the Florida Future Educators (FFEA) Conference  in Orlando, Florida and returned home as 1st place winners. Career academy students had the opportunity to attend informational workshops, but they also competed against 38 other schools in six categories: Speech, Essay, Public Service Announcement (PSA), PowerPoint, Lesson Plan, and Chapter Display.  Out of these six categories, three sophomores from Teaching Academy took away first place trophies.  Riley O’Neal won 1st place in the speech competition with her speech about an elementary yoga instructor. With an essay about several teachers who have inspired her over the years, Abby Burns took home the 1st place award for the essay competition. For the second year in a row, Esther Pielstick returned to win the 1st place trophy in the Public Service Announcement competition.  The conference is identical to a teacher workshop featuring instructional breakout sessions and inspiring keynote speakers. This year’s keynote speaker was former teacher and author, Sharon Draper, who is popular for her young adult novels like Copper Sun and Tears of a Tiger.  (Pictured with the students are the Academy Instructors:  Daryl Cullipher, Katie Maltby, and Wes Miska.) Career Academies VIDEOS now available! Bartram Trail Creekside Nease Pedro Menendez Ponte Vedra St. Augustine St. Johns Technical CA Treasure Hunt winners each receive a $50 gift card: Angelica Lagasca Fruit Cove Darian Parks Gamble Rogers Zoe Amanda Brown Landrum Tegan Dulaney Liberty Pines Caitlyn Hutchings Murray Daniel Dobbs Pacetti Bay Kelsey Daniel Sebastian Gardner Cook Switzerland Point Project Green 2012 Project Innovate 2012 1st place team: 1st place team: 2nd place team: 2nd place team: 3rd place team: Awards will be distributed at the May 17, 2012 Academy Awards Night Industry certifications can provide students with free college credits. The State Board of Education approved seventeen (17) new statewide Gold Standard Career Pathways Articulation Agreements based on Industry Certification - bringing the total number to 102. These agreements are for awarding college credit for a specified level of competency as validated by a third party “gold standard” industry certification or professional licensure. All 102 are at http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/dwdframe/artic_indcert2aas.asp In order to receive this credit, a student must:    1)  be admitted to a college in the Florida College System and    2)  enroll in the AAS or AS degree program named in the articulation agreement within three (3) years of earning their industry certification or licensure.    3)  A student must request the articulated college credit for an industry certification and show their certificate at registration. College registrars can validate a certificate via the student’s electronic transcript or by other institutional methods. Academy students have a great opportunity to be awarded college credit at no cost to them!  Make sure you take advantage of articulated credit for industry certifications you have earned. I Industry Certification Database for Teachers and Career Specialists Industry Certification Report Value-Added Input Link for Academy Teachers and Career Specialist CA Value Added Reporting Designated a Ford Next Generation Learning Community - Leadership Level Visit the Ford NGLC website: http://www.fordnglc.com