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The Academies of Hampton provides ALL students with a clear path to graduation and a smooth transition from high school to a postsecondary college or a career field. Students become part of a learning community, completing courses together with students who share similar interests and desires to learn about a specific career field. Each academy provides that highly personalized small learning community, where ALL students learn Academy-driven English, science, math, and social studies while meeting all graduation requirements. The Academies also offer advanced placement courses, dual enrollment courses, and industry certification exams to help students gain college credits and required credentials prior to high school graduation.
Academy teachers have an increased understanding or expertise in their Academy-focused courses, offering students special activities and events that provide greater awareness of the careers and job opportunities available after graduation. Potential employers share their knowledge and experience through classroom presentations, worksite visits, job shadowing, and internships, while roster teachers, advisors and business mentors introduce students to careers, opportunities, and industry skills through relevant, hands-on learning experiences with real-world applications.
The Academy Course of Study experience
Students learn in a small, personalized environment centered on and responsive to their needs.
Students experience applied learning opportunities within themed Academies.
Students work with business and industry partners to solve real-world problems for authentic learning.
Students gain essential knowledge and skills for successful postsecondary education, training, or employment.
Students engage in a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates academic and career education.
Students work within a culture of collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking that promotes the development of leadership and teamwork skills.
Students earn certification credentials and have dual enrollment opportunities.
Ninth-Grade: Freshman Academy promotes a positive transition from middle to high school and helps students adjust to high school expectations, routines, and standards in a supportive, nurturing, and inclusive environment. Career exploration activities allow students to see actual workplaces; meet with professionals; and gain real-world insights about jobs, careers, and industry. Project-based learning allows students to apply classroom learning in an authentic environment and to design a ten-year plan to guide them toward their definition of success. The ten-year plan is created from age-appropriate assessments and vocational experiences that allow the student to build from their skills, passions, interest, and needs. https://www.hampton.k12.va.us/news/2020Sept/innovation.html
Tenth-Twelfth Grade: College- and career-themed academies (Academies of Hampton) designed and supported by community partners and aligned with local workforce needs provide instruction and experiential learning through the lens of a career. Academies expose students to a variety of college and career options and help them make meaningful and relevant connections with the world outside of the classroom. The Academies’ interdisciplinary program of study involves three years of academic and career technical courses that give students the academic and technical knowledge and W5 Cs workplace skills required in 21st-century careers in a global economy. The course of study identified by the academy allows students to be engaged in a series of courses that build on one another and lead to industry certifications setting the student up to be competitive in college and career elections beyond high school. The course catalog can be found here. https://www.hampton.k12.va.us/news/2020Sept/innovation.html
Start on Success: "A School and Business Collaboration Model Offering Work-based Learning for Students with Disabilities. Hampton's Start on Success (SOS) program is designed for high school seniors with disabilities pursuing a standard or advanced studies diploma. Students are provided opportunities to increase career pathway skills through WBL alongside their academy pathway course. To increase student success, SOS components consist of four evidence-based practices related to in-school or post-school success for students with disabilities (Test, et al., 2009). These SOS core components (Interagency Collaboration, CTE Course, Paid Internships, and Mentorship) contribute to the program's success." https://ttaconline.org/Resource/JWHaEa5BS74W4X5Cly3LHA/Resource-start-on-success-a-school-and-business-collaboration-model-offering-work-based-learning-for#:~:text=Virginia%27s%20Start%20on%20Success%20(SOS,career%20pathway%20skills%20through%20WBL.
Education for Employment is "designed for high school seniors with disabilities pursuing an applied studies diploma to make informed career and continuing education choices as they transition from school, gain technical skills, and adapt to the workplace. Students will learn ethical behaviors and career-research, job-acquisition, workplace-communication, self-awareness, self-advocacy, customer-service, and life skills. Students explore labor market needs through an applied employment education format that can be an academy stand alone or accompany an academy pathway course. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations." https://www.cteresource.org/career-clusters/marketing/education-for-employment-i-preparation/
Extended Enrichment Learning Programs (EEL) extend the time that high school students are engaged in learning. Along with academic remediation and advancement opportunities, EEL offers students time to investigate challenging real-world topics aligned with Freshman Academy and the career-themed academies. Using a business-connected, challenge-driven approach to engage students, EEL encourages students to explore their personal interests, research careers, engage in individualized and structured academic learning, apply academic and technical skills in community-connected and work-based challenges, and learn more about the community. https://www.hampton.k12.va.us/news/2020Sept/innovation.html
Project SEARCH is a unique, business-led, one-year Transition-to-Work employment preparation program that takes place entirely at the workplace. Total workplace immersion facilitates a seamless combination of classroom instruction, career exploration, and hands-on training through worksite rotations. In combination with our community partners, Hampton City Schools offers two Project SEARCH sites, Sentara Careplex and Ft Eustis.
Sentara Careplex Hospital Internship Sites:
Emergency Room
Food Services
Health Information Management
Transportation
Radiology
Heart Center
Environmental Services
Sterile Processing
Pharmacy
Volunteer Services
Materials Management
Linen
Fort Eustis Internship Sites:
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