Career & Technical Education (CTE)

What is Career and Technical Education (CTE)?

The DSD vision for CTE is to prepare students for post-secondary training, successful careers, and enriched lives, by ensuring that all students acquire the essential knowledge, skills and dispositions in each CTE course.

Davis School District (DSD) believes that through competency-based instruction, hands-on experiences, and work-based learning opportunities, Career and Technical Education (CTE) provides students with the structured training and the necessary tools to be successful in a career after high school and/or further his or her postsecondary education, whether at a technical school, or a two-or four-year college. Each student is encouraged to explore various areas of study and to develop the competencies that are necessary to enter today’s competitive job market with confidence.  

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Erin Halbasch

DHS CTE Coordinator

DSD Ag and FCS Specialist

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Juanita Olsen

DHS CTE Secretary

Davis High School CTE Teachers

Alan Spaulding - Agriculture

Dane Leifson - Engineering & Technology

Ed Schirner - Skilled & Technical Sciences

Jason Scanlon - Information Technology & Computer Programming

Jennifer Forsyth - Health Sciences

Kelly Kurtz - Health Sciences

Melody Beutler - Family & Consumer Sciences

Savannah Cook - Health Sciences

Brittany Hyde - Skilled & Technical Sciences

Derek Miller - Broadcasting & Digital Media

Jeff Mc Cauley - Business & Marketing

Jennifer Shakespear - Family & Consumer Sciences

Kellie Chapman - Business & Marketing

Lisa Johnston - Family & Consumer Sciences

Nathan Wright - Health Sciences

Shauna Ward - Business & Marketing

CTE

Empower through Education.

Provide Experiences. Inspire Learning.

Create Opportunities. Give Purpose.

Providing empowering experiences

  • Acquire the essential student knowledge, skills, and dispositions in a CTE course to move towards competency in post-secondary training and in successful careers.

Inspiring learning

  • Connect student understanding to real, relevant, and relatable experiences found in both career pathways and in life occurrences through high impact experiential learning.

Creating opportunities

  • Discover student's why, path, and purpose through exposure to and exploration of their individual aptitudes, interests, post-secondary options, and career pathways.

Giving Purpose

  • Prepare students through Career Connected Learning to confidently enter today's competitive job market, lead enriched lives, and to be positive contributors to society.