Conecuh County Workforce Development CTE

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!!

We miss the Class of 2024, but there are some “new kids” on the WDC block!! Here’s to an awesome senior year Class of 2025 💪🏽🥰.

Parents, don’t forget to join us tomorrow at Hillcrest Jaguars High School, 6:00 pm for the Love Like Lexi program💪🏽😀!

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!

🚨Attention parents & community members:

Please join us August 15, 6:00 pm at Hillcrest High School for the “Love Like Lexi Project”. This program aims to empower students with hope, self-worth and purpose while supplying them with the tools necessary to navigate through life’s challenges.

The student assembly will be the following day at 8:00 am. We look forward to seeing you!!




Making a difference!

We see by the shares on this post that we’re getting our point across. We’re proud to announce that since we started Bring Back the Trades Inc our monthly scholarship essays received to be eligible to win our scholarship have been going up every month so it’s evidence that more students are choosing the trades as a career. Let all keep educating! Thanks everyone 😀

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!

🚨Attention parents & community members:

Please join us August 15, 6:00 pm at Hillcrest High School for the “Love Like Lexi Project”. This program aims to empower students with hope, self-worth and purpose while supplying them with the tools necessary to navigate through life’s challenges.

The student assembly will be the following day at 8:00 am. We look forward to seeing you!!




Making a difference!

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!

🚨Attention Parents: this is a gentle reminder that we will have Open House tomorrow, August 6 from 4:30 pm-6:30 pm! Come out to meet the staff who will be supporting your child this year as they gain or enhance the employability skills needed to be successful in the workforce!

Location: 300 Jaguar Drive

We look forward to seeing you!!

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!

Teachers are officially back to kickstart the 2024-25 school year. WDC Staff began the day with a welcome back brunch followed up by a TAPE/compliance monitoring review session led by Nancy Prine with the Alabama State Department of Education.

Mr. Harry Crum, CTE Counselor, shared information from a recent professional development session on grant writing.

Finally, Ms. Hall, CTE Director, shared CCR, credential and completer data updates. Staff then created SMART goals for their individual programs to align with the district and school mission.

It always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!

We would like to welcome the newest member to the team: Dr. Barbara Bowens, Business Management and Administration teacher.

Dr. Bowens is a retired Air Force veteran with over eight years of experience as a Business Marketing and Computer Science teacher. She also has experience as a paralegal, as well as an endorsement in Educational Leadership and Management.

We are excited to have Dr. Bowens join Conecuh County Schools!

Is always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!!
We are really excited to welcome students back next week!

We are inviting parents, guardians, community members and business and industry partners to our Open House on Tuesday, August 6 to learn more about the exciting opportunities that await students as they prepare for careers in workforce.

Refreshments will be served!

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!

A couple of our health science students (along with students from Butler County) traveled to Mobile this week to visit the University of South Alabama’s Frederick Whiddon College of Medicine.

Students are currently enrolled in the Health Science program and will begin their Patient Care Technician (PCT) class and clinical when they return in the fall.

Thank you to Southern Alabama AHEC for continuing to support students on their journey into becoming future healthcare professionals!

Parents & Students, please join us for orientation week. Please take note of your class day orientation day on the flyer attached. We are offering 2 session times for your convenience.

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!

June 28-July 3, Ti’Yana Woods represented Conecuh County Schools at the 2024 FBLA Middle & High School National Leadership Conference in Orlando, FL.

Ti’Yana placed second in the Advertising Objective test at the state competition in April, which qualified her for nationals. In addition to competitive events, there were guest speakers and various business related workshops for students to attend. Topics ranged from: FICO Score Fundamentals, Managing and Marketing the Best “YOU”, Traveling on A Dime, Mastering Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship and Being A Student Leader.

Ti’Yana is a Hillcrest High School Class of 2024 graduate and the owner and operator of T’s Creations, a t-shirt company. Thank you for representing Conecuh County Schools!

It's always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!

If you did not get a chance to attend the WDC's Career Tech Awards Gala this year, please make plans to be there next year!
To see our religious leaders, government officials, school board members, parents, and other community members show up in large numbers to celebrate and support my babies...priceless.
Thank you again to those who supported the vision financially to make the night one to remember!

Let's keep the same energy as we prepare for the upcoming school year. It will take ALL OF US to ensure our young people succeed...not just the school system.

SN: Shout out to the dads that showed up and did not let the moms out do them in numbers!💪🏽🤗

Attention rising 11th and 12th grade students: if you are interested in touring the Whiddon College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, please sign up below!

Transportation will be provided. Deadline to register has been extended to July 1. Spots are limited to 25 students.

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!

The annual Alabama CTSO Leadership Summit took place June 10-13 in Opelika, Alabama.
Our very own JAGCA state ambassador JaMarcus Lowe was in attendance (pictured far left).

The summit brings together Alabama’s top CTE+CTSO leaders and officers to network, collaborate, learn, and prepare to guide their student organizations in the upcoming school year.

These young men and women will be leading 75,000 CTE+CTSO members across the state as they prepare for College+Career Success.

JaMarcus is also the president-elect for our local JAG chapter for the upcoming 2024-25 school year. Special thank you to our JAG Specialist Ms. ShaQuella Spears for preparing another state officer to represent Conecuh County Schools.

🚨VACANCY ALERT:📣

We are looking for dedicated individuals who LOVE building positive healthy relationships with children, are knowledgeable of their content, have a strong understanding of career and technical education and LOVE to share ideas as a part of collaborative team.

If this is you, then apply today!

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!!

Teachers have officially left the building to recharge and start their summer break🥳. Tuesday, we started the day by taking care of business as usual to prepare for 2024-2025 compliance monitoring. We closed out the day with our end of year staff luncheon (food prepared by Ms. Lou Boykin).

Thank you to Dana Stringer and Nancy Prine from the Alabama State Department of Education for joining us and providing 1:1 feedback with each department to ensure we are up to par with program regulations/standards for Career Tech.

To our students, have an amazing productive summer. We look forward to welcoming you all back in August🤗!

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!!

Congratulations to these gentlemen for completing their skid steer certification! I want to point out that these students are 10th graders so they are officially college and career ready per the Alabama State Department of Education guidelines.

Cameron Wallace
Cameron Wiley
Daniel Diaz
Judayah Edwards
Elijah Dortch

SN: Danial Diaz has earned not 1, not 2 but 3 credentials this year as a outgoing sophomore! 💪🏽👏🏽

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!

The 2023-2024 school year has almost come to a close. We have had a very busy, but productive year at the Workforce Center. To close out, we held our First Career Tech Awards Gala to celebrate all programs offered at the center.

We recognized students who earned industry credentials/certifications. These certifications not only make our kids more marketable for the workforce, but it also let’s employers know that our kids possess a certain skillset or knowledge to further qualify them for the job.

🗣️ALL 5 CTE PROGRAMS CREDENTIALED STUDENTS! 💪🏽👏🏽…ALL OF THEM!

Thank you to our Superintendent and the Conecuh County Board of Education for supporting our ongoing initiatives to build career tech programs in our community.
Thank you to our parents/guardians for the support! We truly appreciate you.

Finally, thank you to our business and industry partners that have supported us by making financial contributions, hiring our students, donating products to support events, serving as guest speakers or allowing us to tour your facility.

Here is a snapshot of the night. Please click the link below to view the entire gallery and to download photos!

https://lapicvisuals.smugmug.com/TheLaPiccom/WorkForce-Career-Tech-Gala-24

Congratulations again JaMarcus!!

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!

Congratulations to our newest Certified Nursing Assistants!!! Thank you to Reid State’s College of Nursing and their instructors for preparing the next generation of healthcare professionals. Students who choose the Health Science pathway have an opportunity to become Certified Patient Care Technicians (CPCT) or Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA).

Pictured L to R: Jaeda Matthews, Kerrah Averette, Makayla Millender, nursing instructor Ms. Felicia Hall-Grace, Kamari Watts, Kiana King and Ja’Niya Stallworth

4th Photo L to R: Seniors Jamerion Murphy and Jordan Bonner (these gentlemen have also earned a credential in Agriscience💪🏽).

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!

Congratulations to our first student group to complete the Skid Steer Skills for Success Certification! This year the Alabama State Department of Education is recognizing these short term certificates as a career readiness indicator (CRI).

Thank you to Reid State Technical College and the ACCS Innovation Center for the continued partnership to produce skilled laborers for Alabama’s workforce.

Pictured below (L to R): Steven Sellers, Cole Padgett, Kelan Woods (2022 HHS graduate), & Lamont Freeman

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!!

At the Workforce Center, we pride ourselves on leading by example. CTE Counselor Mr. Crum has been diligently recruiting, supporting and encouraging students to get their certificates in heavy equipment operating.

What better way to convince the reluctant learner to do? DO IT YOURSELF! Our Director Ms. Hall and Mr. Crum both completed the skid steer certification and other staff members at the WDC are slated to follow💪🏽😀.

Good luck to the students who decided to come in on a Saturday morning to complete the lab/training! Learning never stops…and it’s even more fun when you can do it as a team!

It’s always a great day of teaching and learning at the WDC!!

This year we offered Cooperative Education as a part of our Work Based Learning (WBL). Thank you to Evergreen Medical Center for agreeing to be our industry partner in order to give our student employee Amber King an opportunity to work in the medical field, while finishing up her high school journey.

At the start of the internship, Amber was unsure of what she wanted to do after graduation. We agreed that she would be a floating technician working in various departments. She started in medical records and when it was time to go to another department, they did not want her to go.

We are so proud of Amber for truly making the most of this experience and capitalizing on every opportunity to help out/work beyond her required co-op hours. She saw that Registration was short staffed and stepped right in to assist (even on weekends and holidays).

After working in multiple departments, Amber has decided to study to become a radiology technician! We look forward to watching you blossom and continue to impact the lives of those you encounter🫶🏽.

Congratulations to one of our top Dual Enrollment welders Jermonte Stallworth!!

Staying home! Congratulations on signing with Reid State!