Joshua High School's vision is to become a model of educational excellence. The goal is to develop a career pathways curriculum to integrate career and technology standards into the existing curriculum to satisfy new state technology standards and meet student needs. This will be achieved through activities such as skill-building lessons using business technology in core subjects while adhering to the new state business and finance standards. It aims to achieve this without additional funding or impact to the budget.

1. School Vision: Joshua High School will be a highly acclaimed model of educational excellence.
Goal: Further developing a career pathways curriculum simultaneously satisfy our state’s new technology standards for
career and technology education, meet the developmental needs of our high school students and integrate seamlessly
into our already established high school curriculum.
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1. Student success/ Skill activities • Administrator Bill Posey 08/23/2010- • Released ONGOING
achievement using interviews 06/03/2011 Computer PROCESS
through the business • Literature Assisted TAKS
business technology Review tests
technology designed • Best Practices • Campus
integration into around, for Review Budget Review
core subject and in • Departmental • Student Class
areas of the high conjunction Collaboration Loads/Particip
school with each • CIP ation levels
curriculum core subject • AYP • Perkins Grant
area’s • AEIS data and
department • Recently usage
head. adopted TEKS • Core-subject
• Current benchmark
lesson plans scores
vs. TEKS • Related
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summative
tests
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to the newly comparison new TEKS collaboration 08/23/2010 comparison and process with
adopted State of to old and • Current with the revisions if continual
Texas Business congruent Lesson Plans Business required or revision as
Management with lesson • Lesson Plan Education Dept. necessary required or
and Finance planning and revisions if and as reported needed.
TEKS curriculum necessary to the Asst.
focus • Textbook Superintendent
regarding • Scope and of Curriculum
student Sequence
achievement
3. No additional Needs • Perkins Grant Bill Posey in 08/13/2010 Constant • Monthly
funding or assessment budget conjunction 06/03/2011 monitoring and budget vs.
budgetary post-lesson allocations with the necessary student
considerations plan • Campus Business adjustment performanc
concerning alignment Budget Education through monthly e reports
adoption and and in allocations Department, budget variance • 80%
implementation comparison • Lesson Campus reports from student
of new state with the Planning administrator, campus and class
TEKS. current summary and Asst. central achievemen
budget and from step 2. Superintendent administration t in all core
Perkins grant of Curriculum and non-
money core areas
of
instruction