October 2004

Newsletter

Skills and Leadership for the Future

New CTE Staff for 2004-2005

New CTE Staff for 2004-2005

• Michael Transier
• Ronald Siqueira
• James McLain
• Angela Lee-Pope

Michael Transier is a Business Education teacher at Kent-Meridian High School.  He practiced law in Flagstaff, Arizona for eight years.  He also taught Business Law at Northern Arizona University and Coconino Community College.  His wife is a math teacher at Kent-Meridian.

• Jennifer Peterson
• Jeff Tibeau
• D. J. Reed
• Mark Mundo

CTE  Staff Transfers

Ronald Siqueira teaches Business Education at Kent-Meridian High School. He taught networking at BCTI as well as A+, MS Office, and was the Director of Technology for the Puyallup Tribe. He is a graduate of Central Washington University and has CNE and MCSE certifications.

Student Leadership

• FBLA
• FCCLA
• FFA

Mark Prothero come to KW

HerWorld

Promoting CTE

James McLain teaches Automotive Technology at Kentwood High School. He grew up in Moses Lake and got his B.A. in Industrial Education from CWU. He has worked at Scarff Ford,  Isuzu, and has taught at Sumner and Federal Way High Schools. Of Kentwood, James says "This is the best situation I have taught in yet."  James loves to bowl and travel and plans to go to Sydney at Christmas.  He has a Chinese pug named Winston.

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Angela Lee-Pope is a Business Education teacher at Kentwood.  She recently moved back to the Pacific Northwest from Lake Charles, LA.  Angela has a B.S. in Computer Science from Southern University A & M with certifications in Vocational Business Education from Fayetteville State University, and a Masters in Guidance and Counseling from McNeese State University.  She has three wonderful children:  Albryona 12, Ayanna  6, and Lemuel 22 months.

Jennifer Peterson  teaches P.E. and Careers in Fitness, and Team Sports at Kentridge High School.  Jennifer graduated from Rogers High School.  She graduated from the University of Puget Sound with a degree in Exercise Science and a Master of Arts in teaching.  Jennifer currently assists with strength and conditioning and teaches First Aid/CPR training classes. She lives in Everett, likes to play softball, ski and travel.

Jeff Tibeau is a Photography teacher at Kentridge High School.  Jeff grew up in Kent and is a graduate of Kentwood. A UW grad in Japanese Language, Jeff also studied education, sculpture and photography at CWU.  Jeff has taught Japanese, Art and Photography.  Jeff also works as a wedding, portrait, and sports photographer.  He is currently restoring a '67 convertible VW bug.

D. J. Reed teaches AP Computer Science at Kentridge High School.  D. J. was born in Bellevue and graduated from Bellevue High School.  She graduated from PLU with a B.A. in Math and Education.  D. J. taught math and computer programming at Kentwood for 15 years where she also coached basketball and fastpitch.  She was an AP reader for the APCS Exams and an instructor of AP CompSci teachers for the College Board.  She looks forward to starting AP Computer Programming at Kentridge and is glad to be a Charger.

Mark Mundo teaches Aviation at Kentlake High School. Mark was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.  He worked as a flight attendant for Hawaiian Airlines and traveled around the world.  Seventeen years ago, Mark became a pilot.  As an instructor for the airlines, Mark gained teaching experience which he brings to Kentlake. Next to his wife and two children, flying is his passion.

Welcome!

Staff Transfers 2004-2005

To all CTE Staff--have a great school year!

 FBLA 

Congratulations to Scott Berkley and Aaron Heyamoto from Kentridge, and Olga Lizunova from Kent-Meridian for qualifying and attending the FBLA National Conference held in Denver this past July.  The conference was a huge success with over 2000 students in attendance from all around the country.  In addition to participating in their competitive events and attending workshops, the students with their advisor, Lori Paxton,  had the opportunity to visit Six Flags Theme Park, see a Rockies game, and have dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe.  Congratulations to Scott Berkley for placing fourth in the nation in the category of Banking and Financial Systems!

FCCLA  

Kentwood's FCCLA participated in a community service project for Children's Hospital on Thursday, October 21.  Twelve members attended a Holiday Auction at the Kent Senior Center.  They helped with room set up, decorating, centerpieces serving appetizers, waiting tables, auction runners, and clean up.

In addition the members are working in their after school meeting each week to create thank you gifts for each donor at the auction who gives a "gift from their heart."  (This is a donation without an auction item.)  On October 19, the members carved pumpkins for centerpieces.  The centerpieces are a cooperative effort with the FFA club who arranged flowers in them for the auction.

Last year the auction raised over $30,000 for the uncompensated care fund at Children's Hospital.  Without the help of the FCCLA members, this would not be possible.

FFA  

The Kent FFA club and Horticulture class participated in the Puyallup Fair Landscape construction contest.  They have been participating in this contest for four years.  Each year there is a specific theme.  This year the theme was "pool ponds and waterfalls."

The students design two gardens using the current year's theme and then collect the materials and build the gardens at the fair the first week of school.  They have a very short time to develop the ideas and build the gardens. All the students including alumni are encouraged to participate in the garden construction.  Jeremy Bancel, Ashley Davey, Elizabeth Domby, Yev Onshchinko, Salvador Renal, Candice Kurka, Brent Ashton, Travis Kinne, and Amanda Wallace were some of the students who designed and built the two gardens.

Kentwood is proud to announce that they won Grand Champion for their tropical garden and Reserve Grand Champion for their formal garden!  They are already planning for next year's garden which will be "gardening on a deck." 

Mark Prothero comes to Kentwood

About five years ago, when Shannon Henderson first started teaching Business Law at Kentwood, she had a father of a student come to the class as a speaker.  Mark Prothero was a public defense attorney and he spoke on what it takes to make it through law school and the importance of public defense.  Over the course of the last couple of years, Shannon's law class has continued to benefit from his visits nearly every semester.  He is one of those people who really invests in education.

His career, however, has taken a turn, because he became the most prominent public defender for Gary Ridgway in the Green River case.  Even during the busiest of times for him in the case, Mark made time for Shannon's class, and also made time to coach the swim team at Kentwood.  Currently, he has moved into private practice and has been giving a presentation, "Behind the Defense of the Green River Killer", to various educational venues.  Recently Mark presented to the University of Arizona's Law School and their Behavioral Science department.

Mark presented to Shannon's Business Law classes on October 11 in the Kentwood Performing Arts Center.  Students were able to ask questions.  Mark shed some very interesting "behind the scene's insights" into the entire case.

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HerWorld

Junior and senior women from Kentlake and Kentwood High Schools attended HerWorld 2004 at DeVry University on October 21.  HerWorld, sponsored by DeVry and Microsoft was an all-day workshop with the purpose of increasing the number of women in business, science and technology fields.  The young women participated in four sessions including web page design, marketing jeopardy, creative writing and poetry, and building a network cable.  Women speakers included a senior research scientist from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the senior vice president of national accounts for Study Loan X-press.  The girls, accompanied by Colleen Holmes, Joanna Smith, and Wendy Hurst, joined women from other area high schools for the speakers, and hands-on workshop.

Promoting CTE

Please continue to send articles and information about student and staff achievements to Colleen Holmes, colleen.holmes@kent.k12.wa.us.  This helps us to continue to promote the great things that are happening in the Kent School District.  Thanks!

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