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4 COMPONENTS

Alamo Arts Academy provides a revolutionary way to approach CTE education. We believe both instruction and hands-on learning is paramount to student career and college readiness. Our program is dedicated to guiding students down a path of personal and professional development, multimedia mastery and the support to create and achieve. Our program is delivered in partnership with middle schools and high schools through four main components.

TEKS-ALIGNED CTE CURRICULUM

Our custom middle school and high school multimedia curriculum is developed and taught by certified teachers and industry professionals. Aligned to TEKS standards, schools can have confidence that CTE teachers receive a thoughtfully created curriculum complete with lessons, videos, projects, and worksheets. Schools have ultimate freedom when implementing Alamo Arts Academy CTE courses. Our team is here to help!

WORK-BASED LEARNING

We believe students learn best when they're exposed to the multimedia industry in a real-world environment. Our practicum program, Come and Make It, gives students an opportunity to do production work for live events, programs and organizations, small businesses and nonprofits in their city. Students enrolled in Alamo Arts Academy will have front-seat opportunities for job shadowing, mentoring, internships and so much more!

Schools enrolled in Alamo Arts Academy can take part in our fun, on-location and campus-based events and competitions throughout the year, gaining more hands-on learning with our instructors and industry professionals. These students will be tasked with unique challenges to put their skills to the test and win cool trophies,prizes and production gear, while schools will have an opportunity to receive media coverage.

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT EVENTS

NATIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

We want students to be workforce ready and set up for success through higher education should they choose to pursue multimedia beyond high school. Students enrolled in our program will also be given the opportunity to become nationally certified in their area of study. Our curriculum integrates Adobe software and we teach to the Adobe certification standards through our certification courses.

CTE Courses:

• Film Production

• Graphic Design

• Digital Photography

• Audio Engineering

Our Newest Practicum Partners:

• KSAT-12

• San Antonio College

• Avant Agency

Our Events & Competitions:

• 48 to Create®

• Spring Team Challenge®

• BexarFest®

• TRL-EDU® Workshops

Adobe Certifications:

• Adobe Premiere Pro

• Adobe Photoshop

• Adobe Illustrator

• Adobe After Effects

CTE CURRICULUM

The Alamo Arts Academy program is built specifically to provide schools Career and Technical Education (CTE) without the development costs for teachers, curriculum, lesson plans, projects, events, and equipment.

Our custom curriculum is written, developed, filmed and updated by working industry professionals and TEA certified teachers. Not only do our instructors know the educational needs of the schools we serve, but they can deliver content that is relevant to today's workforce. At the end of each lesson, students are given projects to complete that reinforce the lesson with hands-on learning. Projects are built around creating assets for a school to utilize in their marketing campaigns.

FILM PRODUCTION

GRAPHIC DESIGN

AUDIO ENGINEERING

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

BUDDY CALVO

DENISE MANCHA

ART GUILLERMO JR.

SARAH PATTERSON

Buddy is an award-winning filmmaker, certified CTE instructor and creative professional with over 15 years of experience in film production.

Denise is a professional graphic designer, working with national companies to build campaigns and 3D renderings. She is a Graphic Design + Animation CTE Instructor with over 10 years classroom experience.

Art is a Grammy nominated audio engineer and TEA certified teacher with over 20 years experience working across a multitude of formats including television, broadcast, and live sound.

Sarah is an award-winning professional photographer with over 15 years experience shooting internationally and working with Fortune 500 brands.

Our curriculum is TEK's aligned with the TEA's standards for CTE education in all four courses. With the inclusion of iCEV, schools will benefit from the proven standard that iCEV has developed over 30 years. We fill an important gap left by traditional CTE courses and are ever-evolving with technological advances within the industry and education.

We want students to be workforce ready and set up for success in higher education if they choose to pursue multimedia beyond high school. Students enrolled in our certification track will be given the opportunity to become nationally certified in their area of study. Our curriculum integrates Adobe software and we teach to the Adobe certification standards.

*Additional certifications will be added in the future.

NATIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

IN-HOUSE MARKETING TEAM

What better way to showcase your school than to have your students tell the story?! Our curriculum is uniquely built for lesson projects to revolve around capturing and creating content for schools to use in their own marketing efforts. Hiring a third-party marketing team is often not an option for schools. Creating content is cumbersome in order to maintain a school's website and stay up-to-date on social media platforms. Our curriculum will teach your students how to do this professionally and properly, and highlighting the constant stream of content created by students enrolled in AAA increases engagement and can aid in boosting enrollment. It's your very own in-house marketing team!

HOW TO ENROLL YOUR SCHOOL

Our team would love to show you how easy it is to enroll your school in Alamo Arts Academy. Contact us to get started!

3 EASY STEPS
to implementing Alamo Arts Academy into your school:

INITIAL MEETING

MOU APPROVAL

ONBOARDING

We'll schedule an introductory meeting with you and your administrative staff to walk through the process, answer any questions, and provide next steps to enroll your school. You bring the students, we'll take care of the rest!

Based on your school's projected student count, we'll provide a detailed MOU in order to register your school for the upcoming year.

Upon approval of the MOU, our team will begin working with your staff to ensure a smooth onboarding process. See our Roadmap to Enrollment for more information.

FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A TEACHER...

There are many funding options available to schools and school districts for CTE. In addition to Basic Allotment and CCMR Outcome Bonuses, we have identified additional ways you can cover the investment in this program.

• CTE Weighted Funding

• Perkins V Act

• GT Allotment

• ESSER

• ESEA

• WIOA

• EANS/GAPS

We're committed to educating underserved youth in multimedia career paths. Alongside our community partners, we are proud to be able to offer scholarships to a select number of schools each year. If your school has identified a need, message our team for details on how to apply.

Why not just build this type of program in-house? For less than the cost of one teacher's annual salary, your school can bring in the comprehensive 4-subject Alamo Arts Academy program! We've worked hard to create a better, more affordable CTE education solution for you.

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