CTE Opportunities Offered Early In CCS!!

from The Bulldog Bulletin Spring 2023

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By Erin Ponn and Stephanie Pipero-Henderson

Canton City Schools is proud to offer such a large variety of Career Technical Education opportunities for students beginning as early as the 7th grade. Not unlike our CTE programs at the high school, our middle school CTE students also learn in state-ofthe-art facilities. We are proud to provide labs and equipment that ensure the student experience closely resembles the workplace experience. Within the last few years, we’ve seen the addition of a greenhouse located on our STEAMM campus as well as two new lab spaces located at Crenshaw. Our greenhouse provides students with a realistic setting for the agriculture program, meeting the need within Canton’s food desert. Students are educated on the process of planting, monitoring, and harvesting goods. Crenshaw is excited to see new lab spaces for our Construction Technology program and a shared space for Health Foundations and Law and Public Safety. Our new lab spaces create an environment where students are able to experience a “hands-on” education utilizing various tools and equipment relevant to the field.

Our new facilities provide the necessary space for programs to grow and build a stronger vertical alignment with their high school career tech counterparts. These middle school CTE offerings provide students an excellent opportunity to explore career pathways in a safely managed environment where they can build the critical foundation skills.

With 10 different CTE programs at Crenshaw, 6 programs at STEAMM and 2 programs offered at Early College Middle School , CCS is able to guarantee that students at each building have an opportunity to engage in a CTE option prior to entering highschool.