Van Vleck TAFE

TAFE/FEA National Winners: Top 15 FEA Moment Samantha Bradley, Top 10 Exploring Support Services and Essay Kasey McElroy, Top 10 Inside Our Schools Trevor Smith and Alex Trevino, Top 10 Energy Day Kasey McElroy, Onofre Rosas, and Cody Jasik, 1st Place Public Speaking Trevor Smith! So proud of them all!

We still have openings for our painting classes on Saturday!!!! Please let me know now if you want to sign up! You can do it, and it will be so much fun! :)

If you've missed some of those neat painting classes at local venues, then this is your chance to sign up and join the fun on April 5th! We are even having some youth classes. Message me if you want more details or want me to pencil you in and send me your money to sign you up! And, please even if you don't sign up to paint, come to Leopard Market days on April 5th to visit our booth and check out some of the other great things we will have there! Please spread the word!

Please let your friends and family know that a Premier Jewelry party will be hosted to benefit our TAFE chapter's travel expenses to nationals! The party will be from 3:45-4:30 in Debbie Mosier's classroom at Van Vleck High School. We also have a few catalogs to show and collect orders in advance or you can visit www.jillsanders.mypremierdesigns.com and enter catalog code JS120 to look at the designs and then email [email protected] or call me at 361-935-4319 to place your order. Premier has designs which make great gifts or accessories for yourself! And, there is a customer special for this event, too. Buy 2 pieces and get the 3rd (lesser value) for 50% off! Please come take a look and help us out!

Some of our friends, fans, and supporters have asked for more information about our state and national competitors. So, I'm sharing this information here and hope you all will share it with others as well.

We took 23 regional qualifiers to the state contest in February. At the state level, we received 16 awards (many with multiple students recognized).

We now have 6 future educators who qualified for nationals in Minneapolis and will be competing in a variety of career-driven events at the national level. Trevor Smith and Alex Trevino who placed 3rd in the state have a presentation for their Inside our School video featuring a Pre-AP/AP English Socratic Seminar strategy and how it helps develop argumentation skills. Trevor who placed 1st in the state is also competing in the public speaking delivering a speech on the effects of homelessness on education. Kasey McElroy placed 5th in the state but has revised her essay on improving dropout rates and will be awaiting results at the national level. Samantha Bradley placed third in the state with the delivery of her personal teaching moment story, and will be delivering it again for nationals. Kasey McElroy, Onofre Rosas, and Cody Jasik created an Energy Day project on wind which placed 5th in the state and will be presenting it at the national level to compete for a potential award toward energy resources for their school.

You can help by making a donation in person, ordering from one of the fundraisers being hosted in our honor, or donating online. Contact one of our members if you want more information about how to help us pay for our national competitors' and sponsors' travel expenses to Minneapolis. They leave in just 18 days!

Thank you to a number of individual and corporate donors who have helped us raise money for our travel expenses for national competition! We are getting closer to our goal and dreams of taking our national competitors Trevor Smith, Alex Trevino, Samantha Bradley, Kasey McElroy, Onofre Rosas, and Cody Jasik to the next level! We could not do it without all those who have been helping, including our other chapter members who have been supporting them and helping work our events because they want to see their fellow TAFE members continue on! Please share our page with your friends and family. Let them know that these future educators are working hard and will represent us well in Minneapolis, and how they, too, could be a part of that journey!

We have a Scentsy party being hosted online by Jana Huddleston who is helping us raise money for national competition. Scentsy has great warmers, sprays, stuffed animals, body lotions, bath products, car scents, and even laundry products. Get into the spring season and by ordering help our Van Vleck future educators raise money for national competition! Please use this link to place your order. Orders will be shipped directly to you!! https://janah.scentsy.us/Scentsy/Home?partyId=227115749

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We are grateful for the donations we've received so far. Keep sharing this link with your friends and family and encourage them to make donations ASAP!

Donate Now! Mary Lynn Mosier is raising money for Van Vleck TAFE/FEA Nationals We are the Texas Association of Future Educators, a branch of the Future Educators of America. On February 23-25, we attended the Texas State Teach Tomorrow Summit in San Antonio where we had 6 students advance to Nationals in 7 different competitions. Samantha Bradley, our chapter president, pla...

Please consider placing a Scentsy order to help us! There are great new scents, warmers, and even buddies! You can get some great Easter, Mother's Day, and even graduation presents! Our consultant is hosting a party in our honor and then donating the profits and her commission! Here is the link! https://janah.scentsy.us/Scentsy/Home?partyId=227115749

Our 2014 State Competitors! Way to go TAFE! As Dr. Nelson, keynote speaker and Laredo ISD superintendent, reminded us, "Hard work pays off!"

Our TAFE chapter has 6 students that have qualified for the national finals in Minneapolis! We are so proud of them! Travel expenses, of course, will be costly, so we will be working on fundraising, and if anyone is interested in helping these kids get one step closer to their dreams, then please contact me at [email protected] as soon as possible. We must complete registrations for this event by March 1, and in order to do so we must have a plan for funding. Thank you to all our past, current, and future supporters.

Group picture for yesterday's awards!