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NAF Academies Mission Statement
NAF Academies Mission Statement
The Burbank Unified School District NAF Academy will provide an academic and technology-based program that inspires students to become respectful and successful members of a continually evolving global community. Through high quality instruction, community service, shadowing experiences, and work experience/internships, students will graduate with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, the workplace, and the world beyond.
Academy Development & Structure
Academy Development & Structure
NAF academies are structured as small, focused learning communities that fit within and enhance high school systems, allowing NAF to become an integral part of a plan for higher achievement at a low cost. NAF promotes open enrollment for its academies in order to maximize every student’s chance at a successful future. The flexible structure encourages teacher collaboration across subject areas and fosters personalization to meet student, school, district, and state needs and goals.
Curriculum & Instruction
Curriculum & Instruction
NAF provides a rigorous, industry-validated career-themed curriculum that incorporates current industry standards and practices, literacy strategies, and STEM integration. NAF’s instructional practices foster cross-curriculum collaboration so students can make connections across subject areas. The NAF curricula are created in partnership with industry professionals and designed around projects that help students acquire valuable workplace skills and see their education as a step toward long-term career options. NAF empowers teachers to expand the boundaries of the classroom in non-traditional ways that ensure lessons have real-world application to growing industries.
Industry & Advisory Boards
Industry & Advisory Boards
NAF advisory boards provide an essential bridge between schools and the workplace. Business people and community leaders volunteer on local advisory boards to play an active role in developing their future workforce by shaping talent in high school. Advisory board members collaborate with educators to inform curricula and help organize work-based learning activities. Advisory boards give students the opportunity to build relationships with mentors early and learn from successful adults.
Work-Based Learning
Work-Based Learning
Work-based learning brings the classroom to the workplace and the workplace to the classroom. This instructional strategy provides students with a well-rounded skill set that goes beyond academics and includes the soft skills needed to succeed in college and the working world. NAF’s approach to work-based learning is centered on a continuum of work-based learning experiences beginning with career awareness activities, progressing to career exploration activities, and culminating in career preparation activities, including internships. Business people guest speak in classrooms, host college and career skills workshops, and take part in mock interviews. Students have the opportunity to tour work sites, network with, and shadow business professionals. Work-based learning culminates in an internship that allows students to apply their classroom skills and learn more about what it takes to succeed.
NAF Courses
Financial Planning:
This was a course that taught the world of finance and how to start a career in financial planning. This course demonstrates the true side of life and shows you what you can expect to realistically pay in your future for daily life expenses. This class taught me how to differentiate insurance plans and create financial statements, as well as the differences between stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Taking this class taught me how I can be financially independent and ensure my life expenses are always budgeted and planned correctly. Taking this class allowed me to understand the necessities of life and how to accept the differences between wants and needs so that I don't end up living paycheck to paycheck in the future.
Understanding the basic fundaments of finance allows one to prepare for their future and ensure they have a great start in their finances through credit scores, education, and planning for success. Since this was my first NAF class, I also learned how to write several career documents such as a resume, cover letter, reference page, and reasons to hire me, which I believe truly helped me as it gave me valuable input on how everything should be formatted. This was also extremely beneficial as I later used these documents to apply for internships and volunteer experiences. Attached is my final project for my financial planning class, which discusses an outline of how I hope my expenses and life will be in my mid-20s.
Ethics:
This was a course that teaches basic work ethics and how to be an ethical person in the future. This course teaches you how to follow your morals and not go against them. It prepares you for an honest life and sets you up for success. The guide to being an ethical person can often be challenging as people often have different morals and opinions, but learning the basic fundamental business ethics is essential as it can often determine how great one may succeed in a business. The traits that often make someone ethical are how they respond to different situations they may find themselves in and what integrity they sustain through those situations.
Through this class, we practice how different responses can be seen in different ethical dilemmas amongst varying students. For example, a situation that we had to practice was whether one may have seen a mother stealing from a baby isle and choose between two options that they believed would be the most ethical. One person may have said to act like they didn't see anything as they understand the mom is struggling to fend for her children and may have resulted to methods such as stealing in order to fend for them while others may have considered it ethically wrong as she is still stealing merchandise from a store. This would characterize the morals that can be seen across different people and even set apart several different business owners. The different ways people may think about this situation can be a great example of how one may have their morals set and how these morals lead to the ethical decisions they make. Attached is my final project on a subject I chose to discuss with my class that shares the ethical concerns of artificial intelligence.
Accounting:
Accounting:
This was a course that teaches the basics of accounting, introducing you to the accounting cycle and real-life accounting situations. This is an important class to take as accounting will be seen many times in everyone's future, and if we have a better understanding of what goes on with our money, it will be easier to track. We analyzed several scenarios in accounting to understand whether they would fit under the debits or credits section and labeled them accurately whether they were invoice, expense, capital, net interest, accounts receivable/payable, cash flow, or current vs fixed assets. We also learned that the financial statements include income statements, statement changes of owners equity(SCOE), and balance sheets.
This was a course that teaches the basics of accounting, introducing you to the accounting cycle and real-life accounting situations. This is an important class to take as accounting will be seen many times in everyone's future, and if we have a better understanding of what goes on with our money, it will be easier to track. We analyzed several scenarios in accounting to understand whether they would fit under the debits or credits section and labeled them accurately whether they were invoice, expense, capital, net interest, accounts receivable/payable, cash flow, or current vs fixed assets. We also learned that the financial statements include income statements, statement changes of owners equity(SCOE), and balance sheets.
The basics of this class were to learn how the accounting cycle works and understand how to create a general journal, general ledger, trial balance, and financial statements. To do this, we played a round of Monopoly and had to account for any transaction that occurred throughout the game. For example, if I would have paid rent for landing on someone's land, that would fall under the credit section as rent expense. We also learned to account for mistakes in the journal and how to find those said mistakes so that our final debits and credits are equally balanced. Attached is the rundown of the Monopoly game with the financial statements and an explanation of where I got or lost any money.
The basics of this class were to learn how the accounting cycle works and understand how to create a general journal, general ledger, trial balance, and financial statements. To do this, we played a round of Monopoly and had to account for any transaction that occurred throughout the game. For example, if I would have paid rent for landing on someone's land, that would fall under the credit section as rent expense. We also learned to account for mistakes in the journal and how to find those said mistakes so that our final debits and credits are equally balanced. Attached is the rundown of the Monopoly game with the financial statements and an explanation of where I got or lost any money.
Marketing:
Marketing:
This was a course that teaches how to express your creativity and create a business throughout the entire semester. This class is important, and it teaches students the true struggles real business owners may face. This is because several businesses may be great but aren't the best at marketing their organization to the public in order to bring in customers. This class taught me the importance of creating advertising material and how it best fits into the right audience.
This was a course that teaches how to express your creativity and create a business throughout the entire semester. This class is important, and it teaches students the true struggles real business owners may face. This is because several businesses may be great but aren't the best at marketing their organization to the public in order to bring in customers. This class taught me the importance of creating advertising material and how it best fits into the right audience.
It's important to create the right marketing materials as you need to know what reaches the target market best. In this class, we learned how to research the best resources for our business, make print marketing and jingles, and create websites. Attached is the business I created that consists of Middle Eastern Cuisine. We researched the location where we intended to plant our business and ensured we would have interest in opening this business and attempted to find what best appealed to our audiences. We conducted surveys to see the interest in our business and what entertainment most people would like to see. We thought of the idea of creating weekly cooking lessons to teach how to make Middle Eastern cuisine. We intended on having different meals one can learn to make so that they feel like they don't want to miss out and come to our restaurant. This would be an example of marketing strategies as it explains what would draw people to our restaurant and how much it would support our business finances and advertisement.
It's important to create the right marketing materials as you need to know what reaches the target market best. In this class, we learned how to research the best resources for our business, make print marketing and jingles, and create websites. Attached is the business I created that consists of Middle Eastern Cuisine. We researched the location where we intended to plant our business and ensured we would have interest in opening this business and attempted to find what best appealed to our audiences. We conducted surveys to see the interest in our business and what entertainment most people would like to see. We thought of the idea of creating weekly cooking lessons to teach how to make Middle Eastern cuisine. We intended on having different meals one can learn to make so that they feel like they don't want to miss out and come to our restaurant. This would be an example of marketing strategies as it explains what would draw people to our restaurant and how much it would support our business finances and advertisement.
AP Macroeconomics:
AP Macroeconomics:
This is a course that teaches students the overall fundamental concepts of an economy and focuses on how the concepts affect the large-scale economy. This class consists of learning new methods and concepts that prove how well an economy is doing and allows us to figure out what may resolve issues of inflation or recession. The overall problem with economies is that supplies are limited, and demand is constantly increasing, leading to several forced tradeoffs in an economy, which leads to an explanation of beneficiary trade for several countries.
In this class, I learned several concepts, such as supply and demand, scarcity, opportunity costs, gross domestic product (GDP), consumer price index, and several more. All these concepts allow me to understand how to solve issues in an economy and see how well an economy is truly doing. I learned how to understand all these concepts through graphs and learned how to apply them to real-world situations for comparisons. Since economics tends to be a political topic, we also practice our public speaking and research in this class as we have assignments called current events, where we will search for a recent story in news sources and give a short presentation explaining the contents of the article. Attached are some current event templates I had explaining what occurred in recent news articles.
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