• CTE (Career Technical Education) at EHS:5 ROTC Air Force

This is a leadership development program with the focus on building character and to create citizens that care about their community. 

I'm not sure if the ROTC program is officially under Elsinore High's CTE umbrella or not, but I wanted it to be included in this blog series. 

 Color Guard.

It's a student run program. They take individuals as freshmen and raise them up to the point that, by their junior or senior year, they run the program.

Curriculum

• Aerospace Science 1 (ROTC)
  • Period 4
  • Period 5
• Aerospace Science 2 (ROTC) (Period 1)
• Aerospace Science 3 (ROTC) (Period 3)
• Aerospace Science 4 (ROTC) (Period 3)
• Cadet Leadership Course (Camp Pendleton)
• Drill & Ceremonies (ROTC) (Period 7)
• Freshmen Leadership Camp

The ROTC building on the campus of EHS. 

A Journey Into Aviation History

from the website

This is the recommended first course for all new cadets. It is an aviation history course focusing on the development of flight throughout the centuries. It starts with ancient civilizations, then progresses through time to modern day. The emphasis is on civilian and military contributions to aviation; the development, modernization, and transformation of the Air Force; and a brief astronomical and space exploration history. 

It is interspersed with concise overviews of the principles of flight to include basic aeronautics, aircraft motion and control, flight power, and rockets. Throughout the course, there are readings, videos, hands-on activities, and in-text and student workbook exercises to guide in the reinforcement of the materials. 

The course objectives are:
1.  Know the historical facts and impacts of the early attempts to fly.
2.  Know the major historical contributors to the development of flight.
3.  Know the contributions of the U.S. Air Force to modern aviation history.
4.  Know the key events of space exploration history.They generally do the management and planning sessions for all the different activities in the program.

Freshmen Leadership Camp

This week-long camp (June 8-12, 2020) provides entry training to ROTC and will prepare incoming freshman cadets for the first day of school and beyond.  The camp is held on the Elsinore High School campus for one week, starting at 8:00 am and ending at 11:00 am each day.  

A graduation ceremony and pot luck party closes the camp on Friday. Selected cadets may be eligible to attend Camp Pendleton Summer Leadership School the following week, earning 5 elective credits.  Cadet recruiters will visit the middle schools in the Fall and Spring to hand out more camp information and registration forms.

Learning through doing

I was told of one exercise where the Bataan Death March was the focus. The cadets went to the school's track, walked for 56 laps, the equivalent of about 14 miles, which was only a portion of the distance of the infamous WWII march. Once finished they refueled on MREs. 

Highlights on the ROTC calendar include, Military Ball, Awards Ceremony, Marching Competition and Cadet Promotions.

From the web page

Welcome "Flying Tigers"! 

A fantastic year has just started and you are all invited to make the most of it as a cadet in the United States Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. 

Get those stripes...get those scholarships...get that career you have been dreaming about after high school or college. HUA, Elsinore! (Heard Understood Acknowledged)

In the last class, they had about 120 cadets in the program, and though they do have class size limits, there isn't a waiting list. 

Cadets are given about $360 worth of uniforms, which includes shoes, socks. Their responsibility throughout the year is to keep it clean, which often means drycleaning. If they want to wear additional uniforms, they are purchased by the cadets themselves. 

The program tries to offset some of those costs by supplying gently used uniforms that are donated, to students that may not be able to afford them. It was estimated to be about $250 just for the pants, the top and the boots.

They do hold fundraisers to further offset some of the costs. 

Among the fundraisers they have car washes and selling butter braids (it's a pastry).

A big thank you to Stacy Styrcula, EHS's College and Career Center Technician. Without her help I couldn't have done this series. 

Link to blog 1: Video and Photography

Link to blog 2: Graphic Design

Link to blog 3: Sports Medicine

Link to blog 4: Screen Printing

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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
– Sir Winston Churchill

Wildomar Rap is the opportunity in every difficulty.

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• CTE (Career Technical Education) at EHS:4 Screen Printing

The class is Screen Printing and Graphics and the instructor is Mr. Marc Navarro. 

EHS's professional screen printing machine.

Manufacture and product development is a key goal of this class. They teach the students how to create the graphic using Adobe Illustrator, then how to manufacture it onto apparel. 

Students at work.

Course Projects
It starts with beginner level work —the basics of screen printing with one color. After that, they can return to the advanced class where they can learn to operate and work in a printshop setting doing outside work for the community. 

A sample of what's available at their on campus boutique.

I asked what parents should know about this course, Mr. Navarro replied, 

"One thing I always emphasize to the kids is to learn good work skills. Even if they don't want to get into screen printing or graphics, at least they can learn work skills. Whether they're working in a shop environment, getting hands on [experience] [...] paying attention to details, learning how to work with others as a team, things they'll need after high school."

 — Marc Navarro

Getting the screen ready for printing.

There are some local screen printing shops that don't have the same type of sophisticated equipment present at EHS. It's because the CTE program receives grant money that has been put to good use. 

They aim is to keep on top of the industry standard. Which allows the school to keep their equipment updated, and that translates into outgoing students being ready for the job market. 

Marc Navarro

From Mr. Navarro's LEUSD webpage

This will be my 9th year teaching Screen Printing and Graphic Production at EHS and I am excited to  forward to the 2019-20 school year. Along with Mr. Steiner and Mr. Kusayanagi, we advise our student run business known as Studio 1891. 

Link to Mr. Navarro's email

Our talented students produce posters, stickers, banners, video production and apparel that funds our students ability to learn on the cutting edge of industry standard equipment. 

The Career Technical Education (CTE) programs at Elsinore High School are by far the best in the Lake Elsinore Unified School District. My pathway is Manufacturing and Product Development: Graphic Arts Production.

Mr. Navarro is a hands on type of instructor.

Our CTE programs are designed to teach the foundations of a specific skill, such as screen printing and graphics to utilize those skill sets to apply for industry approved fields. Pathway completion for my course is 3-4 years. Other pathways can be completed in 2 years, depending on instructor. 

Students in the beginning Screen Printing class have the opportunity received college credit here at Elsinore High School. The beginning Screen Printing curriculum is aligned with Palomar College in San Marcos, CA. Students must maintain a "B" and higher both semesters to Articulate at the end of each school year.

Parents...feel free anytime to contact me in regards to volunteering in my class.
 

Link to official webpage

Opportunity for the community

If you have a screen printing project in mind, t-shirts for a family reunion, youth sports team or local community group, contact Mr. Navarro and see if Studio1891 can do it. 

Basic parameters such as a 12 item minimum and a 2 week turn around is to be expected, but what an opportunity to help out a local program while getting top of the line work done for less than what is on the open market. Who's ready for a Wildomar Rap shirt? ☺

Personal note: Screen printing, silk screening when I was in high school, has come a long way since the early '80s. Back then we would get a sheet of acetate, physically cut out the design with an exacto knife, fuse it to stretched silk canvass, line up the image to the shirt, cross our fingers, and squeegee on a color hoping we did it right. 

A big thank you to Stacy Styrcula, EHS's College and Career Center Technician. Without her help I couldn't have done this series. 

Link to blog 1: Video and Photography

Link to blog 2: Graphic Design

Link to blog 3: Sports Medicine
Link to blog 5: ROTC

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Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.
– Stanislaw Leszczynski

Wildomar Rap shares things from its POV; it's your duty to determine if it's reasonable or not.

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• CTE (Career Technical Education) at EHS:3 Sports Medicine

Sports Medicine has become a lot more advanced from a generation ago when "rub some dirt on it" was the go to for injuries where a bone wasn't sticking out of the skin.

This course, taught by Mr. Robbie Harrison, has students with varying levels of interest. From those that have a casual interest, or are sports fans, all the way to kids that already know they want to be in the medical field as adults.

From the official webpage

Welcome to Mr. Harrison's Sports medicine classes. Within these classes students will have the opportunity to learn about sports related injuries and how to manage and treat them. We discuss injuries from sprained ankles to skin wounds and concussions. 

Advanced sports medicine is a course where students take the knowledge that they learned in sports medicine one and apply it to actual EHS athletes as they are assigned to a sport as a student athletic trainer.

Robbie Harrison Email

Mr. Harrison estimated that 90%-95% of his advanced class has aspirations to be either a doctor, nurse, EMT, physical therapist, athletic trainer or something along those lines.

The pathway of this course begins with Sports Med 1. It's a yearlong class where they'll learn things like anatomy, physiology, injuries of the body and how to treat them, concussions, heat illnesses, bone fractures, tapping skills, basic evaluation skills.

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After SM1 they can apply for the advanced class where they take their skills and apply them, hands on, as student athletic trainers for one or more of the twenty sports teams on campus.

For example, if they get assigned to the football team they go to practices, they go to games, they tape up players before practice, and they help with minor injuries during a game.

What type of projects do Sports Med students do?

There is a skeleton poster project. This is where they trace a body out, then draw and label the entire skeleton —with some fractures. 

There is a rehab project where they are assigned an injury where they put together a PowerPoint presentation in front of the class regarding the rehab. Including how long the rehab takes, is surgery necessary, types of procedures, types of exercise(s).

There is an anatomy in clay project. Similar to the skeleton poster but this is done with clay. They use a plastic skeleton and then create the muscles and ligaments from clay and attached them to the skeleton.

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In the advanced classes, a video project demonstrating a "how to" situation, such as how to tape an ankle, is one of their projects.

I asked, "What is something you'd like the parents to know about this course?"

"One cool thing about this class is all the kids have the opportunity to get CPR/First Aid certified, and AED certified (Automated External Defibrillator). I'm a CPR instructor through [the] American Heart Association. So [with] every kid we do a lesson in class as part of the unit. They get graded on it, they still have to go through the information and take a test. We charge $15 [for those interested] to get a two year First Aid/CPR/AED certified. They can take that [for] babysitting, [a] job they want to do. Every kid has an opportunity to do that within this program. "

- Robbie Harrison

HOSA

Health Occupations Students of America

Through HOSA, the students also have the opportunity to compete at a state level when it comes to sports medicine, medical terminology and other health related topics. Last year EHS had students that placed first and second in the state championships in sports medicine. One of them went on to nationals and earned first place in the nation for sports medicine. 

Internships 

Mr. Harrison mentioned his efforts with the Storm baseball team and a possible internship. They also do some college tours every year. Recently they visited University of San Diego, Chapman University and UCLA in the past. 

It gives an up close perspective of how the athletic trainers, at the various schools, work. It also gives them the chance to ask questions and tour the campuses.

I spoke with one of the outgoing seniors about Sports Med at EHS.

I want to be in the medical field myself. I've learned a lot about the medical field and it's taught me with cool, hands on experience. 

I'm one of the trainers for varsity football, so I get to go down to the football field with the [head] athletic trainer (Mr. Harrison) and he lets us help the athletes. If someone gets hurt, we're out on the field with them.

This is a good program to be in if you want to be in the medical field or if you want to be an athletic trainer. it's good experience, and I'm going to put this program on my resume, I've been in this program all four years of high school. It's been really fun and it's taught me a lot. 

— Student, Jacob Ruggles

A big thank you to Stacy Styrcula, EHS's College and Career Center Technician. Without her help I couldn't have done this series. 

Link to blog 1: Video and Photography

Link to blog 2: Graphic Design

Link to blog 4: Screen Printing
Link to blog 5: ROTC

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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
– Voltaire

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• CTE (Career Technical Education) at EHS:2 Graphic Design

Is your child creative? Do they love to draw, sketch or even doodle? They don't have to want to pursue a career in graphic design to be part of this course, but... if they do... BINGO, they've struck gold.

This is no light weight elective 
Industry standard Adobe CC software is taught. Primarily Illustrator, but InDesign, PhotoShop and LightRoom are also part of the course. 

All skill and interest levels are taught in the various levels of Graphic Design.

I spoke with instructor Mr. Reed Steiner a bit about the differences between PhotoShop (something I use everyday) and Adobe Illustrator (something I've never been able to get comfortable with).  

"Usually when I teach [graphic design] I start with Illustrator, because if I do it the other way around, people hate it. So I teach Illustrator first and that tends to keep people more interested in it."

- Reed Steiner

I needed to be in Mr. Steiner's class about 10 years ago... ☺

Graphic Design tackles many different projects

Beginning classes focus on learning the principles and elements like might be taught in a drawing and painting class, and getting their feet wet with the software.

They do about twenty projects throughout the year. Things like photo collages in PhotoShop, posters for concerts, animated GIFs, with the final project for Graphic Design 1 being a video. 

Looks legit to me.

The second level class focuses more on industry type projects

Examples include: beverage labeling, advertisements, book covers and the like. The students will also bring in objects to photograph in EHS's studio to create original artwork so that everything in their project is theirs, not just clipart online.

A few samples of past work.

In third and fourth level classes they do production with their large format printer. They make banners, decals, stickers. It's like a small business where they produce for the school and the community.

If you're a team parent of a youth sports team, this is a good option for your banner.

Real world skills are learned in this class.

Mr. Steiner is working on getting all his Graphic Design classes articulated (which means eligible for college credits too). He was telling me that, "RCC is willing to work with all my classes, so all of my classes [the student] could potentially get college credit for, and a weighted grade."

Some of the artwork that adorns the classroom walls.

Design for print publication, aka Year Book
Another of Mr. Steiner's subjects is Design for Print Publication, which oversees the school's yearbook design and production. 

The yearbook is created "all from scratch" in InDesign... which means they don't use a template someone else came up with. This teaches "how to publish a book in the industry".

My name is Reed Steiner. I am proud and honored to say that I have been teaching at Elsinore High School since the 2014-15 school year.  I love sharing my passion for art and design with my students, and preparing them for college, career, and life out in the real world. 

Reed.Steiner@leusd.k12.ca.us 

I grew up on the north end of Lake Elsinore, and received my K-12 education from LEUSD. I received my Bachelors of Fine Arts in Illustration from CSULB. I earned my teaching credential in Art and Masters in Digital Teaching from APU. I also have a CTE Arts, Media, and Entertainment teaching Credential from OCOE. 

A big thank you to Stacy Styrcula, EHS's College and Career Center Technician. Without her help I couldn't have done this series. 

Link to blog 1: Video and Photography

Link to blog 3: Sports Medicine
Link to blog 4: Screen Printing
Link to blog 5: ROTC

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I draw like other people bite their nails.
– Pablo Picasso

Wildomar Rap has seen much of Picasso's work, and has to agree with his self assessment. Too bad he didn't draw like Segovia played guitar.

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