Category: Urban Skills Center
Congratulations to all participants in our first ever Jog-A-Thon at the COOK Education Center and Urban Skills Center! A total of 88 students participated in the event last month, raising over $2600 for our schools! On Tuesday, November 9th, an awards ceremony was held to honor the top fundraiser and top lap runner from each COOK Education Center and Urban Skills Center Program. Our Award winners were as follows: COOK Foundations Top Fundraiser: Alec E. Most Laps Completed: Antonio S. (19 laps) COOK Secondary Top
Alumni Panel Gives Valuable Advice to Transitioning Students and Their Families
November 14th, 2010 by admin
On November 9th, the Urban Skills Center (USC) and COOK Education Center (COOK) hosted our 3rd Annual Alumni Panel. At this event, we invite alumni and/or their family members to come and talk to our current students and families about their post-school experiences. This year we were excited to learn about the transition experiences of four alumni and/or their families from Urban Skills Center and COOK Education Center. Chris, who graduated in 2000 from USC, has been working at SeaWorld for eight years! He is
Urban Skills Center and the other three schools of The Institute for Effective Education’s (TIEE’s) family of schools were given site visits by two review teams in spring, 2009. One of the teams represented the California State Department of Education (SDE) and their review was conducted as part of a cycle of annual reviews pursuant to SDE certification of TIEE’s schools as Non-Public, Non-Sectarian Schools. Joining the state team was a second team representing San Diego County Office of Education and the San Diego County
The Association for Direct Instruction invited Mary Taylor, Director of the Urban Skills Center, along with Hillary Whiteside, Director of Children’s Workshop, to attend a conference in Eugene, Oregon on the use of Direct Instruction (DI) practices and materials with students with autism. The TIEE Directors met with two eminent research professors of DI practices and outcomes, Tim Slocum, Ph.D., of Utah State University and Cathy Watkins, Ph.D., of California State University Stanislaus, to develop a workshop that would inform behavior analysts and other professionals
Yngwie Schmidt earned the Urban Skills Center’s Vocational Education Service Award for the month of October. Yngwie works as a crossing guard at the Cook Education Center and recently began a new food service job with California Catering at La Jolla Country Day School. According to his supervisors, Yngwie is consistently on time, reliable, and highly efficient. He is friendly to both co-workers and peers and demonstrates a positive attitude. He is a hard worker and continues to impress! Congratulations Yngwie!