October 1, 2009
James Rensvold, a 2002 graduate of Clark High School, was the recipient of the 2009 National Academy Foundation's Advisory Board Champion award. Rensvold received his recognition at a gala event held in the Desert Ridge Marriott Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona...
Cheyenne Empowerment High School has created Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) to provide students with more individual attention and foster a greater sense of community on campus. The school has been divided into five equal comprehensive "houses," each containing approximately 450 students (9-12)...
In addition to SECTA, NWCTA, and ECTA, students in the Clark County School District now have two additional state-of-the-art Career & Technical Academies available to meet their needs.
Southwest Career and Technical Academy is a four-year comprehensive career and technical high school offering programs in Entertainment Engineering Design, Culinary, Hospitality/Travel & Tourism, Fashion Design, Interior Design, Nursing, Dental, Respiratory Therapy, Video Game Technology, Web Design, and Automotive Technology...
East Career and Technical Academy Gives Back/La Academia Técnica y Profesional del Este Retribuye
ECTA is working on giving back to the community to begin their school year. Staff and students in House Two, which includes the Culinary Arts and Marketing/Sports Entertainment Programs and the core classes, decided to support Share Our Strength, a national organization that is trying to help end childhood hunger in America...
Empowerment schools are given the flexibility to determine what will best accomplish their goals, and to deploy the resources that they have been allocated to implement their choices...
Service Learning Engages Students/Aprendizaje a través del Servicio
What is service learning? Is it the same as community service? Not exactly. Students often participate in community service projects initiated by adults, but service learning projects are created by students who have been motivated to take action as a result of inquiry-based classroom lessons that have identified a problem in need of a solution...
