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Educating students at Ohio s public career centers involves more than just providing them with technical skills, according to Jay Poroda, who will become the Delaware Area Career Center s new superintendent in June.
DACC school board president Ted Backus said the board is “tremendously pleased” with its choice of Poroda as the new superintendent.
“This has been a complete and thorough process,” Backus said. Our administrators, teachers and community partners had opportunities to meet in focus-group settings with the search facilitator, and DACC staff were also invited to meet the two finalists. All those we interviewed along the way were excellent and gave us much to consider.
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When Mary Beth Freeman began her career as an educator, she had a chalkboard in her classroom and would send students outdoors to knock chalk dust from the board s erasers.
As she nears retirement as superintendent of the Delaware Area Career Center 36 years later, she has seen digital and information technology permeate nearly every phase of the DACC s education programs.
The DACC school board has named Jay Poroda – now assistant superintendent at Tolles Career & Technical Center in Madison County – as her successor effective June 1. We all know how much Superintendent Freeman has contributed to the growth and stability of our career center. We will always be grateful to her and look forward to similar successes with our new superintendent,” said DACC school board president Ted Backus.
The Delaware Area Career Center held its annual Career Exploration Day last week in which students were given a chance to hear about a variety of careers a
Olentangy Schools parents, students share thoughts on returning to class full time
“We recognize that in-person learning has not been associated with community spread. But the reason we waited until staff was vaccinated was because staff transmission was of greatest concern,” Raiff told board members during their Feb. 25 meeting.
Berlin High School junior Cameron Pack said she’s glad to be returning to full in-person classes, despite some concerns over how that’s going to look and feel.
“I’m a little nervous to see how it’s going to work in the classroom,” Pack said. “Doubling the number of students makes me nervous. A couple of my classes already have 20 people in hybrid, so how are they going to allow for us to keep a distance? On the other hand, some of my classes are very small.