Students build career awareness and engage in deep exploration and study of the Texas CTE career clusters to create a foundation for success in high school, possible post-secondary studies, and careers. The career development process is unique to every person and evolves throughout one’s life. In Career and College Exploration, students use decision-making and problem-solving skills for individual

Students will collaborate and use computer science concepts to access, analyze, and evaluate information needed to solve problems. Students will work with HTML, Scratch, Python, or JavaScript programming languages. Participation in this course satisfies the level one course requirement of the Programming and Software Development Pathway in the STEM program area. This is a prerequisite for AP Compu

Students will investigate different careers that involve helping and serving people. This course provides handson experience in the career fields of counseling and mental health, early childhood development, family and community services, fashion and interior design, and entrepreneurial pathways. Students will also develop strong career traits in management, budgetary. practices, and nutrition.

Students develop keyboarding skills and techniques. Students will use software applications to develop and format basic business documents as well as enhance reading, writing, computing, and communication skills applicable to a variety of industries. \*This course counts for high school credit and toward the HS GPA and class rank. It is paired with Dollar and Sense in the Spring semester.

Students learn consumer practices and responsibilities, money-management processes, decision-making skills, and the impact of technology. The student demonstrates management of individual and family resources such as finances, food, clothing, housing, health care, recreation, transportation, time, and human capital. \*This course counts for high school credit and toward the HS GPA and class rank.

This introductory course ignites a passion for technology and innovation through the exciting worlds of robotics and engineering. Students will learn the fundamental principles in mechanics, electronics, and computer programming by engaging in hands-on projects. Students will design, construct, and program basic robots to tackle challenges, cultivate teamwork, improve problem-solving abilities, an

Building upon the foundational knowledge gained in Technovation I, this course will dive deeper into more complex and practical robotics applications while introducing aviation and more advanced coding. Students will apply their engineering skills to design and program more advanced robots for real-world scenarios. They will explore the core principles of flight, aerodynamics, and elementary drone

This course focuses on the same strands as English Language Arts, Grade 6 (see above), but also emphasizes advanced reading and analytical reasoning skills to prepare students for Advanced Placement courses in high school. Students may be expected to read outside of class during the school year and encouraged to read during the summer.

Students will apply earlier TEKS strands of developing and sustaining foundational skills, comprehension, response, multiple genres, author’s purpose and craft, composition, and inquiry with greater depth in increasingly complex texts as they become self-directed, critical learners who work collaboratively and independently to develop and use metacognitive skills. The strands are integrated and pr

Students will apply earlier TEKS strands of developing and sustaining foundational skills, comprehension, response, multiple genres, author’s purpose and craft, composition, and inquiry with greater depth in increasingly complex texts as they become self-directed, critical learners who work collaboratively and independently to develop and use metacognitive skills. The strands are integrated and pr

This course focuses on the same strands as English Language Arts, Grade 7 (see above), but also emphasizes advanced reading and analytical reasoning skills to prepare students for Advanced Placement courses in high school. Students may be expected to read outside of class during the school year and encouraged to read during the summer.

This course focuses on the same strands as English Language Arts, Grade 8 (see above), but also emphasizes advanced reading and analytical reasoning skills to prepare students for Advanced Placement courses in high school. Students may be expected to read outside of class during the school year and encouraged to read during the school year.