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      New Mexico - Albuquerque
Avg. Daily Enrollment (2007-08): 249 Accredited: Yes, by the New Mexico Public Education Ethnicity Information: Native American: 48% Hispanic or Latino: 34% Caucasian: 11% African-American: 5% Asian / Pacific Islander: 2%
Students who Qualify for Free/Reduced Lunch: 100%
Graduates to date: 376
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Career Trades Offered: Carpentry Cement Masonry Facilities Maintenance Health Occupations Plumbing Welding SIATech Albuquerque
Overview
SIATech Albuquerque at the Albuquerque Job Corps Center was founded in 2004. The school advocates that all students can learn and have the right to earn a high school diploma along with their GED, even if they have been previously unsuccessful in a traditional school system.
SIATech Albuquerque, in partnership with Job Corps and the U.S. Department of Labor, created a way to break the cycle of poverty and underachievement for students who have not been successful in previous schools. SIATech Albuquerque delivers a curriculum that uses state-of-the-art technologies to integrate academic knowledge and real-world applications within a professional, work-like setting. Students are engaged by the technology and involved with the outcome-based project curriculum. They achieve good academic results in dramatically less time than in the traditional school setting.
The partnership between the Albuquerque Job Corps and SIATech Albuquerque provides students with a complete work-readiness package positioning them for success in a rapidly changing world. They participate in a motivational and challenging academic schedule blended into a program of workplace readiness training, social skills training, and personal support services. SIATech Albuquerque grants a high school diploma on students who complete the high school program with credits awarded for work completed in Career Preparation Period (CPP) and their vocational skills training program.
The SIATech Albuquerque and Job Corps programs are designed to support the students’ employment opportunities, provide preparation for higher education and training, and/or satisfy armed forces entrance requirements. The collaborative efforts of the Albuquerque Job Corps Center and SIATech Albuquerque support meeting the needs of students who seek to improve their lives.
Principal Profile
Kelly Callahan has been an educator for 20 years: ten as a middle school social studies and English teacher as well as 10 years as an administrator, including seven years as a middle school assistant principal, two as a charter school assistant principal, and now as the SIATech Albuquerque principal. In 2008, Ms. Callahan was named the New Mexico Principal of the Year by the New Mexico Association of Secondary School Principals. She is the only charter school principal in the country to be awarded this honor. Ms. Callahan commented on her work as a principal at SIATech, "This is my dream job. It's the job I was meant to do. I'm changing people's lives here." (The Albuquerque Journal, August 12, 2008) In her “spare” time, Ms. Callahan loves to travel, read and play golf.
Success Stories
Aaron began his SIATech Albuquerque program in August of 2004. He had 12 high school credits and was very reluctant to engage in the curriculum. He decided in October that he was quitting SIATech and Job Corps. Then he received his GED results—he had passed. With renewed faith, Aaron decided to stay. He not only stayed but was a “man with a mission.” He finished his trade in welding, completed his SIATech curriculum, and passed his high school exit examination. All of this while also struggling to support his girlfriend and five year old daughter. As graduation approached, Aaron was determined to not only finish, but to finish on top. He was named the Job Corps Valedictorian and was a top honor SIATech graduate.
Aaron’s is only one of many stories of success at SIATech Albuquerque and the Albuquerque Job Corps Center. The SIATech staff and students partnered with the Job Corps provide a comprehensive program that leads to student self-actualization of “Real Learning for Real Life.” |
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Their academic training in GED classes and the high school curriculum support and enhance their occupational training. By the end of their time in Job Corps, they have the opportunity to gain a GED, a high school diploma and solid training in an occupation that prepares them for an independent, productive life.
Thanks to SIATech Albuquerque and the Albuquerque Job Corps, Aaron had the “tools” to bring to a job interview. With his SIATech “Webfolio” and the confidence gained from both SIATech and Job Corps, he was offered and accepted a welding job in Las Vegas, Nevada at a starting salary of $30 per hour!
