CHS CTE & Academic Programs by Communications High School

AWARDWINNING CTE PROGRAMS

Book Created by Hannah Smolinski & Ryann Mcarthur ‘25

Photographic Society of America Youth America BEST in SHOW 2019 & 2024 2024 NJ Skills USA Gold Medalist in Photography

Multiple winnings with the Monmouth County Parks System photo contest

BFA Alfred University School of Art and Design MFA Eastern Illinois University in Arts Education My Teacher Style is.... engaging, hands on, and relevant Teacher is.... engaging, on, More Questions.. email afitzpatrick@ctemc.org COURSES

MR. DAVID SALOWE

TEACHER!

BA & MAT from Monmouth University. Previously worked for Atlantic Records, New Line Cinema, MTV & various Independent Filmmakers

National & International Film Festival Acceptances Timed Film Competitions. Students have worked on real films while still in school .

Chapman College, NYU Tisch, University of Southern California, Emerson College, Montclair University, Drexel University, Rutgers,

More Questions.. dsalowe@ctemcorg COURSES

Explore Film

Intro to Film

Intermediate Film: Visual Storytelling & Technique

My Teaching Style is....

Collaborative, Creative, Facilitator is....

Advanced Film: Direction and Production Film Theory

Collaborative, Creative, Facilitator

Project Tyes

Short Films, Documentaries, Music Videos, Commercials, Abstract Art Film, Cinematic Theory

MRS. SHELLEY ORTNER

MRS. LAURA FALLON

TEACHERS!

More Questions sortner@ctemc.org lfallon@ctemc.org

BFA from Moore College of Art & Design majoring in Fashion Illustration, Masters in Art Education from University of Florida, prior to teaching I worked 15 years as a graphic designer and art director.

Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Young Arts National Competition winner. A student made a gift win the Met 150 Design Challenge. Finalists for Junk Kouture Regional and the Lowell Milken Center Unsung Heroes ARTEFFECT competition.

COURSES & ILLUSTRATION

My Teacher Style is.... Learn by doing! Teacher Style is.... by doing!

MR. WAYNE WOOLLEY

AWARDWINNING ACADEMICS

ENGLISH

MEET SOME OF THE TEACHERS

Jaime Vander Velde Kelly Lang

BA from Wellesley College in English and Psychology, Masters in Secondary Literacy Education from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, Doctoral Work Rutgers University New Brunswick, worked as an editor for publications for Congress

My Teaching Style is.... Collaborative, student-driven, facilitator

WHYOURELADEPTISDIFFERENT

Began at MCVSD as one of the original English Department Faculty Members at Allied Health; BA in English from Fairleigh Dickinson University, MAT in Secondary English Education from Montclair State University, Post Graduate studies at Rutgers GSE, Study Abroad at Wroxton College, England.

Writing is something we all have to do throughout our lives. Students leave English IV having developed a closer relationship with their writer's voice. This allows for greater ease in authentically expressing their ideas and themselves. --- Each senior conceptualizes and creates their own bound book in collaboration with Mrs. Fitzpatrick's printing classes. The students write the content in class, edit the content, then typeset their books, as well as create their covers using their Adobe knowledge.

My Teaching Style is.... Creative, student centered, seminar style

WHYOURELADEPTISDIFFERENT

Graduate with strong writing and communication skills

Writing and Presentation infused in all coursework CTE theme based collaborations with ELA ALL TAUGHT AT HONORS LEVEL

Science

MEET SOME OF THE TEACHERS

Erin Wheeler Steve Godkin

I majored in Physics Education at The College of New Jersey.

I Teach Chemistry and Forensics. We set up crime scenes for real science problem solving

WHYSCIENCEDEPTISDIFFERENT

I've tutored kids from special needs to AP physics

Projects by choice, so no specific topic (Senior year) Project optional Sophomore year - standard Generators or VandeGraffe generators. In addition to a multitude of other real world applications.

LIKE THIS STUDENT CREATED LASER ENGRAVER

My teaching style is Intense, thorough, whimsical

WHYOURSCIENCE DEPTIS DIFFERENT

We (CHS) have an unusually high Physics PhD rate for any school, let alone an Arts school. In engineering we hold our own as well!

Math

MEET SOME OF THE TEACHERS

Justine Lane Paula Gilligan

My undergraduate degree was Electrical Engineering. I designed the cellular network when it first began. I was the first female cellular engineer in the world. Then, I lived in Sydney, Australia; Brussels, Belgium and Athens,Greece doing International Mergers and Acquisitions and bidding for licenses to run cellular companies all over Europe and Asia.

20+ years as a Math teacher

My teaching style is informative, visual, demonstrative

WHYOURMATHDEPTISDIFFERENT

My teaching style is Visual, interactive, supportive

learning how to be successful in math including standardized tests and calculator use

Student who was failing my class (at one point) earned a 5 on AP exam. Students who came to my class hating math, left loving it and majoring in it.

WHYMATHDEPTISDIFFERENT

If you learn to manage the anxiety you have when faced with a math problem, you can extrapolate those skills to facing with any problem in your life.

Translating English to math and math to English. Visualize the problem. All math is connected.

2023

100% of Geometry students and 100% of Algebra 2 students were proficient on NJ standardized test.

2024

92% of AP Calc students passed the exam vs. 70% of NJ students.

Spanish

MEET SOME OF THE TEACHERS

Courtney Van Arsdale Karen Britto Davino

College Professor, Lived in Spain!!

MCVSD Spanish Curriculum Lead

My teaching style is Engaging, challenging and caring.

Studied in Spain during university. Supervisor of MCVSD Adult Education

My teaching style is Interesting, Engaging

In my career, I've graduated students who have since become Spanish teachers, one of my students did her undergraduate at U of Barcelona, a great number of students have studied abroad, many have traveled and utilized learned language and culture, many have earned the NJ State Seal of Biliteracy and Global Seal of Biliteracy, so many report back that their newly learned skills have helped them in social and work experiences!

Students love to come back to let me know that they're using this important language in real life!

In My Class, you may find: Presentations, debates, speeches, kids' books, poems, documentaries, scrapbooks, 3D models

Concepts are: Nature, City Travel, Wellbeing, Art, Culture, Geography, Symbolism, Bullfighting, Immigration, Fantasy to Escape Reality, Magical Realism

Social Studies

MEET SOME OF THE TEACHERS

Bill Clark Sharyn O’Keefe

US Navy Vet - 10 years

Monmouth University Grad

Rutger's University post grad

Taught at - Governor's School Public Policy, College, High School and Adult Night School

My teaching style is College Prep, Creative, Stories

DDUALCREDIT UALCREDIT OOPPORTUNITIES PPORTUNITIES

One of the original staff members when CHS opened, taught at High Tech before coming to CHS; Alfred Lerner Fellow

My teaching style is Project Based, Skill Based,

EELECTIVES LECTIVES

WHYOURHISTORYDEPTISDIFFERENT

Connections between history and current day issues; writing skills and persuasive speaking skills

WE have many graduates that have gone to law school and clerked for judges in DC

HHISTO ISTO

WHYOURHISTORYDEPTISDIFFERENT

Fun, Lots of Learning - My goal is to teach students without them even realizing that they are learning.

Open formatted and style projects, American Revolution, Civil War, reconstruction, Industrial revolution, Manifest Destiny, Big Business

History Through Film Modern Humanity and Genocide

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