Florida - Gainesville

 

Year Founded: 2003

 

Avg. Daily Enrollment: 200

Accredited: Yes, the school is accredited by SACS CASI.

Graduates to date: 386

 

School Website:

http://www.siatechgnv.org

Advisory Board and Charter School Contract

 

SIATech Gainesville News

August 2009

Ethnicity Information:

Black/African American: 65%

Caucasian: 19%

Latino/Hispanic: 13%

American Indian/Alaska Native: 1%

Asian: 1%

Other/Not Specified: 1%

 

Qualify for Free and Reduced Lunch: 100%

 

 

Career Trades Offered:

Accounting

Auto Body Repair

Auto Repair Tech

Business and Finance

Carpentry

Certified Medical Asst.

Certified Nursing Asst.

Culinary Arts

Facility Maintenance

MOUS Certification

Painter

Phlebotomy

Protective Services

Tile Setter

 

More info

 

 

Florida SIATech at Gainesville Job Corps Center
5301 N.E. 40th Terrace
Gainesville, FL 32609
Tel: 352-371-4424
Principal: Ms. Joy Baldree
joy.baldree@siatech.org

Overview

SIATech at Gainesville Job Corps believes that all students are to be transformed by what happens in a school regardless of their ethnicity, socioeconomic status, special needs, or gender. The purpose of SIATech Gainesville is to transform the lives of its students.

SIATech Gainesville provides teacher-delivered lessons in a high-tech atmosphere. The classrooms have a 1:1 student-to-computer ratio. SIATech's curriculum meets the standards outlined by the Florida Department of Education for a standard high school diploma, and SIATech graduates also meet the National Educational Standards for Students (NETS).

SIATech Gainesville provides Real Learning for Real Life™. The school uses the NETS-aligned Adobe™ software for Digital Design and Digital Video in our Create Technology and Senior Projects classroom. Students choosing the Business and Finance trade can achieve MOUS and IC3 certification. Graduates complete the program prepared to enter the workforce and higher education.

The faculty and staff at SIATech Gainesville are dedicated and committed to student achievement and student success. They believe that all students can learn and will learn wihen provided with a personalized learning experience. SIATech meets the needs of its students one student at a time!

Principal Profile

Joy Baldree began her teaching career in 1992 in middle grades English. Since then, she has taught all English grades and levels from 6th grade to 12th grade and served as a Principal at Cypress Creek Academy in Citrus County. Joy served as a Regional Technology Specialist for five years in Citrus County and earned the Teacher of the Year Award at Citrus High School. The partnership between Job Corps and SIATech captured Joy's attention as a way for students to learn hands-on in a technology infused program and apply that learning in real world trades. Joy believes that technology should not supplement the curriculum, but that the curriculum should infuse real-world preparation through technology. The opportunity to lead a SIATech school, for Joy, is equal to embracing her life mission statement!

Success Stories

Grant Increases Services to English Language Learners in Gainesville
SIATech

In a combined effort to bring ELL Language Services to Job Corps students, the new ELL Language Lab at SIATech Gainesville will open for students on Tuesday, September 1st.

Joy Baldree (SIATech Principal), Pamela Easterling (Job Corps’s Career Transition Specialist), along with Julie Falt and Stuart Soto (instructors at Santa Fe College) set out to discover a way to increase services to English Language Learners (ELL) on Center. Through their combined talents and efforts, a program was envisioned and a grant was written that would provide after school ELL instruction and resources to the Center students.

They did it! August brought cause for celebration as the grant was funded for a full year with the possibility of funding for a second year! Julie Falt and Stuart Soto toured the Job Corps Center on August 12th. They met with instructors and enjoyed interacting with the students. SIATech will be coordinating the ELL Language Lab that will be taught by Mr. Soto and held in the SIATech Senior Projects Lab on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. As wonderful as this all sounds, there may even be enough funding for a second teacher to provide a computerized Tutorial Lab on Wednesday evenings using SIATech’s ELL tutorial software, Dyn Ed.

We can’t thank Mrs. Easterling enough for her initiative and perseverance in obtaining outside resources for the ELL students and to the Florida Department of Education for funding the initiative. The assistance to our ELL students through this grant is truly exciting!

Staff Member Christal Blue, SIATech Gainesville Social Studies teacher attended the Inauguration of President Obama and is featured in the February 2009 eUpdate.  Miss Blue is the SIATech Employee of the Year for SIATech Gainesville.  She consistently goes the extra mile for her students, taking them on field trips to historical museums and historical attractions in Florida.  Her students participated in The American Story, a Disney Youth Education series focusing on the rich history of the U.S.

Science is hands-on and minds-on for students.  Science students, Brienna Foster and Paul Hill, are shown getting to know new additions in the amazing SIATech Science lab.  Professor Parker, the SIATech Gainesville Science Teacher, was recently named one of the Lead science teachers for SIATech. Professor Parker turns our students into curious scientists who study bugs, butterflies, pigs, crayfish, cow eyes, and frogs, and take field trips to local museums.  Science students also participate in a fossil dig through the University of Florida and are studying weather via a GLOBE weather station.

An introduction to "The Fire" by Anfernee Butler

"When gold becomes old and rusted there’s a stage in its rusted lifewhen it goes through something called smelting, and through this smelting period the gold becomes very hot in a pot until it melts. When the gold melts all its dirt and rust floats to the top of the pot and the gold smith scoops it all off. Once that process is over the gold is then poured out, cools and is made brand new again. The old gold was me, the old rust was my past and hurts, the gold smith was my SIATech instructors and principal, and now I can stand here today and smile knowing that I'm made new again. So I encourage you today to say, we all have to go through the fire so our value is set higher because we're all worth something."