Laura Deshazo – Administrative Memos

Scholarship for Teachers

Are you interested in teaching Concurrent Enrollment classes at your high school but are not qualified? Do you want to take the college classes so you are qualified? What if we pay for the tuition?

Let's jump in!

We are excited to offer an opportunity to pay for your tuition to take a class (or two, not an entire Master's degree) to become qualified to teach concurrent enrollment.

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If you don't know if you are qualified or want to have a conversation about offering additional concurrent enrollment classes, please reach out to your CTE Coordinator or the Business Development Coordinator:

Julianna Wing, CTE Business Development Coordinator

Anne Martin, CTE Coordinator, East High School

Emily Grass, CTE Coordinator, Highland High School

Sarah Wilson, CTE Coordinator, West High School

Due to the change of USBE’s competency-based systems and at the direction of USBE leadership, the Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Fine Arts teams were tasked with identifying natural alignments between CTE arts-based courses and the Fine Arts courses, endorsements, and core standards.

A multi-month alignment review identified significant overlap between the CTE arts-based standards and the Fine Art state core standards. Based on these findings, the following CTE courses may now grant Fine Arts Credit on a case-by-case basis, depending on student needs:

Commercial Art 1/2/3
Commercial Photo 1/2/3
Digital Illustration, Digital Media 1/2/Advanced
Digital Media Capstone
Graphic Print Design 1/2/3

CTE educator requirements: to grant this credit, CTE educators must have a secondary license and one of the following CTE endorsements:

CTE endorsements will be updated on July 1, 2025. CTE will offer different options to fulfill the requirements for the Associate Level of each endorsement. Fine arts teachers cannot be scheduled to teach these courses until they have the appropriate endorsements.

Resulting changes for students: this change provides our students with greater flexibility in fulfilling their

graduation requirements and allows them to explore their interests in both Fine Arts and Career and Technical Education – for these courses, credit can be granted depending on the student’s needs.

No other CTE courses are eligible for Fine Arts graduation credit.

Questions? Laura deShazo, CTE Director

Author: Laura Deshazo

Scholarship for Teachers to Teach Concurrent Enrollment

CTE Courses Approved for Fine Arts