Karen Nelson
to Succeed Lynne Porter as
Assistant Superintendent, Educational
Services
Karen Nelson, Assistant
Superintendent, Educational Services, is the newest member of
the North Orange County ROP family. Karen will assume
leadership of the Educational Services Division when Lynne
Porter retires on August 31.
Lynne Porter, Assistant Superintendent, Educational Services
and
her
successor, Karen Nelson
Karen has been the assistant director, Curriculum and
Instruction, at Los Angeles County
ROP for the past eleven
years. During that time, she implemented standards-based instruction
for more than 350 ROP teachers; established a 23-district Inservice;
managed the development of “Career Essentials,” a core curriculum
for all ROP
teachers; simplified the CC/CVE documentation process; and developed
an annual business and industry recognition process.
Karen also taught Home Economics, math and Drill Team
at Monrovia
High School
for 10 years.
Karen is a Certified Trainer for WASC and for “Making
Standards Work.” She earned the designation at the Center for
Leadership and Learning in Denver, Colorado. She served several
times as a WASC visiting team chair, including as chair during North
Orange County ROP’s 2006 WASC visitation. She is a past president
of the California Association of ROCPs’ Southern Region Board, and
has co-chaired CAROCP committees, including Curriculum and
Instruction and Model Programs and Practices. Karen is recognized
statewide as an educational leader.
Karen earned her Bachelor’s degree in Home Economics
and Master’s degree in Secondary Education with a specialization in
Curriculum and Instruction at Cal
State University,
Los Angeles.
Karen’s experience, expertise and leadership skills
will enable North Orange County ROP to continue its role in
providing high-quality, rigorous and relevant career technical
education to our diverse student population.
ROP Students Battle Robots
In The Shadow of the Cube
High School Pre-engineering Students
Tutor Tots in Robot Maneuvers
This summer’s
Discovery Science Center (DSC) Robots & Us exhibit at
the Cube
(May 23, 2009-September 13, 2009) was a natural venue for ROP
pre-engineering students to demonstrate their VEX
LEGO®-manufactured robots to young DSC fans. The kids’ faces
really lit up when students turned the controls over to them.
The young ones, it turns out, love to do battle just as much as
the teens!
You have only
to look at the archives of this web newsletter to know that
ROP’s Steve Heck and Ron Ponce, Design and
Fabrication for Engineerin
g Careers teachers at Western and
Anaheim High Schools are two instructors who are truly devoted
to their students. They work with students after school to
build robots, and accompany them to many VEX competitions. They
were also cheering on their students (and the kids) at the Cube.
ROP
Vocational Nurse Students Medal at
National Student Conference
North Orange County ROP
students shone like the stars they are at the HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) National
Leadership Conference in Nashville,
Tennessee
in late June.
The
Vocational Nurse HOSA chapter, advised by Elizabeth McPeak,
RN,
MSN,
Director, North Orange County ROP Vocational Nursing Program,
did quite well in the postsecondary school division.
Jenny Navarro
won gold for Best Extemporaneous Writing; Leigha Campbell
took silver in Pathophysiology. Katie Hobbs, Rose Kirby,
Whitney Patnode and Julie Specht brought home the bronze for the
Health Education Team Event, and Olga Desiatkin
won bronze for the Extemporaneous Health Poster. Emma
Bermudez was among the finalists in Clinical Nursing.
Valencia
High School seniors Simona Bor and Jessica Gonzalez were named
finalists in their respective events (Pathophysiology and Nurse
Assisting) in the conference’s secondary school division. Simona
and Jessica are both first-time
competitors. The Valencia High
School ROP HOSA Chapter is led by ROP Medical Careers instructor
Lupe Rodriguez.
Esperanza and
Savanna High Schools’
chapter members also participated with their
instructors/advisors, Valerie Easton and Bridget Wulff.
Sixty-three hundred (6,300) students from all over the United
States and its territories participated in the conference. To
qualify, competing students had to have placed in their state’s
competition. To see how North Orange County ROP students fared
in the statewide contest visit the Advocate Online Archives.
Click here for 2009 statewide results (April '09 Advocate).
National high
school and post-secondary results for 2009 are posted online.
Click here for 2009 national results at the HOSA website.
For more
information about Medical pathways classes at North Orange
County ROP please visit
www.nocrop.us, or call Student Information Services at
(714)
502-5858.
Pinning Ceremony Marks
Vocational Nursing Graduation
Vocational nurses graduated
Friday, July 17, in an evening ceremony at the Sisters of St.
Joseph auditorium in Orange.
Valedictorian Katie Frances Hobbs told graduates
a story of patient frustration and nurse indifference she
observed her first day on clinical rotations that shaped
her
choice to remember that each patient has a name, a personality,
a history, has been young, had dreams, loved and lost, and is
now going through a hard time. She adjured the other graduates
to constantly keep in mind the humanity of each patient.
Katie Hobbs
Three graduates, Bea Zergiellane Jaime, Joscelin
Marisol Muñoz, and Whitney Nichole Patnode, went directly into
the program from the ROP Medical Careers Academy at
Savanna High
School, the first to do so.
The three were awarded the Most
Improved Professional Development award
by the VN staff.
Those who won awards at state and national leadership
conferences were also recognized at the ceremony.
Whitney Patnode
Joscelin
Munoz
Bea Jaime
Shao
Bin Huang
The Claire A. Porter award went to Shao Bing
Huang and Rosa Naomi Martinez. The award is given by Lynne
Porter, Assistant Superintendent, Educational Services, to
students who overcome difficulties to learn a new
career
in
midlife. The award is in honor of Lynne’s
mother, who became an LVN at age 59 and an RN at age 62.
Superintendent Michael Worley, Ed.D., Board
President Thomas Holguin, and Administrator Dee Niedringhaus
addressed the group. Vocational
Nursing Director Betty McPeak
was the master of ceremonies and pinned students in a
traditional ceremony.
Thomas "Hoagy" Holguin
Michael Worley, Ed.D.
Vocational nurses who graduate from the program
are licensed by the state. For the past several years, North
Orange County
ROP
VN graduates have had a 100% pass rate on the NPLEX test.
For more information about
the Vocational Nursing program at North Orange County ROP, log
on to
www.nocrop.us, or call Student
Information Services at (714) 502-5858.
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