Ventura College Important Information
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If you have not registered for classes, please email Margie Harper at margie.harper@venturausd.org
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ECHS Leadership
Students and families of students who are already enrolled in Leadership class for the 2020-2021 school year, please visit the following link for an important newsletter with details about beginning our class on Friday August 14th: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zos_J3FXqX7xX4temq-jgS9338bAwNCb/view?usp=sharing
For new students or those interested in learning more about ECHS Leadership: Students enrolled in our ECHS Leadership class serve the school and others, make friends, and grow as leaders. Although the application window for the first semester of Leadership class for the 2020-2021 school year has already closed, please contact Ms. Fergus (dianne.fergus@venturausd.org) if you are interested in learning more about applying for second semester or in the future. You can also learn more by perusing the application on the Leadership page of the ECHS website: http://www.elcaminohighatvc.org/leadership.html
ECHS Leadership Mission:
We RISE UP to create meaningful stories for ECHS students to:
Respect Others & Our Diversity; Include Others; Serve Others;
Empower & Inspire Others In Unity & Positivity
While VUSD remains fully-distanced, ECHS Leadership class will meet virtually every Friday morning from 10:30am - 12:15pm. When we return to in-person learning, ECHS Leadership class will return to meeting every Friday from 9:45-11:45am in room 1. Applying to be in Leadership is voluntary, but attendance at Friday meetings is required (and necessary!); students who miss three class meetings will be asked to choose another elective class for the semester.
Students may earn 5 credits of applied art each semester (80 hours of classwork and service are required - including attendance at Friday morning classes, completing online work, contributing to school events, and performing community service).
Students must maintain Renaissance standing academically in order to be in Leadership.
Students plan events, create projects, learn new skills, & build friendships.
This is a good way for students to add essential 21st century career skills to their resumes for college, scholarships & job applications.
Traditionally, the Leadership class works on planning school activities such as:
Open House
Quad Days & Fun Nights
Fundraisers
Prom & Renaissance Events
Staff Appreciation Week
Senior Luncheon & Graduation
Note: a mandatory two hour virtual Leadership Academy will be held prior to the start of school on Friday August 14, 2020 from 10:30 am – 12:30 pm via Zoom.
CAPS Media
ECTV 20 -21
Teaching Digital Broadcast Media at this juncture in our history is both exciting and daunting. We’re looking at changes coming at us so fast, we are starting to become numbed by a real sea change in our culture and media o. And the role of media is in serious flux. Much that we thought we knew about media is changing. Is it just a blip and it will all change back? I think that’s doubtful. To be learning about media now is in many ways creating a new media form. The students taking this course now will be part of that change and may be the guiding light of that change. At the very least they will be looking at it with trained eyes. I’ve loved teaching this class. Although we’re looking at a difficult year in teaching, I’m excited to be part of it.
The El Camino High School (ECTV) program has won 5 national awards and numerous western states regional awards from The Alliance for Community Media.*
This is one of the award-winning shows. Although interviewing someone in this close proximity is unsafe at this time, the way the show is put together is basically how our shows will be put together.
ECTV - Ventura Deputy Mayor, Sofia Rubalcava
We’ll be using a zoom interview using zoom for the face-to-face communiation and professional cameras recording the actual interview. The files will be uploaded then downloaded to be edited. At present it’s planned editing programs at home to make this possible.
We will mirror and adapt what the TV industry is doing right now.
We may have labs at CAPS Media for the students. CAPS Media is closed and will be closed through the first semester but potentially not closed to students.
The class is a built around practical work that would be done at a TV and radio station. Real world experience. Several students who have taken the course have been freelancing while they are attending Universities.
Students will be learning by doing. They will learn how to work professional cameras, audio, lighting, the language of film/television, content, research, writing scripts, editing, color correction, visual symbolism, interviewing skills, working in an online writers’ room and really much more.
The student can decides what they want to learn and when. All the while producing regular scheduled shows.
As our world is cocooning, this class is about reaching out safely and professionally communicating. Then turning that communication into a show.
I’ve worked in Community Television over twenty years.
If you have any questions please contact me – Phil Taggart
Talk to your teacher if you are interested in applying for this course.
Previous participation is not a guarantee that a student will be accepted in the program:
*The Alliance for Community Media is a national organization that advocates, promotes and preserves the right to media training, production, distribution, civic engagement and education in support of diverse community voices. The organization is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Teacher, Ms. Kelly
I began my career in education in the Ventura Unified School District where I have served as a teacher in kindergarten through 8th grade as well as a Teacher on Special Assignment supporting instruction for English Language Arts and English Learners. As an educator, I am passionate about meeting my students where they are, creating learning opportunities that mirror the diversity of our community, and providing equitable opportunities for all students to succeed.
I have been blessed with three beautiful children. They are really cool, individualistic, and caring people and I am very proud of each of them. Other than my family and profession, I love to run and walk at the beach, read, and travel.
I consider it an honor and privilege to join the ECHS staff. I am a life-long learner and I look forward to learning alongside my colleagues and students. I am committed to doing everything possible to help each student at ECHS achieve their personal best.
-Photo:Glacier hiking, Vatnajökull, Iceland.
Teacher, Mrs. Gaeta
Hello, my name is Rosalyn Gaeta and I’m eagerly awaiting starting the new school year at El Camino High School. Originally from Santa Barbara, I’m happy to now call Ventura home where I live with my husband, two kids, and our dog. After earning my bachelor’s degree in Global Studies and Middle Eastern History from UCSB, I completed my teaching credential at CSU Channel Islands. I’ve been teaching 6th grade Language Arts and Social Studies at DATA for the last seven years so I am looking forward to “graduating” on to high school. I prefer tea over coffee, chocolate over anything else, and if I could have any superpower I’d want to be fluent in every language (including animal languages).
Counselor - Mr. Jordan
Greetings El Camino High School! I am excited and grateful to begin this school year as a new counselor at El Camino High School. This will be my 5th year working in VUSD, after serving at the elementary school level the first 2 years, and then across all of our middle school sites the last 2 years. In addition to providing academic counseling, I am also a counselor within VUSD's Student Assistance Program (SAP), to provide additional support around students' social, emotional, and mental health needs, and to bridge families to additional resources in the community. I am native to Ventura, and graduated from Saint Bonaventure in 1995. I completed my Bachelor's in Psychology at UCSB and Master's in Counseling from Azusa Pacific University, and I am a registered Associate Clinical Counselor in the State of CA. I've worked as a counselor in every county on the central coast, from LA County up to Monterey, plus some summers in Texas in New York. I've also taught Psychology at the high school level at the International School of Panama and helped direct their Model UN program. While living in Panama, I met and married my wife, who would become the mother of our 3 children, the oldest of whom is now starting 2nd grade. I love to garden and plant things that give me food! My wife and I have maintained a small tropical fruit orchard in Panama for the last 17 years. My passion for horticulture was ignited by my father and grandfather who have careers in the industry, and in no small part, from Ag classes that I took at Ventura College when I was still a high school student. I'm thrilled to be working at a school where we can explore our interests and passions in a very special way. Who knows where things will lead? I look forward to helping you on the journey!
ECHS @ VC
