Toledo Technology Academy
Toledo Technology Academy High School | |
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3301 Upton Avenue Toledo, Ohio, (Lucas County) 43613 United States | |
Coordinates | 41°40′56″N 83°35′27″W / 41.68222°N 83.59083°WCoordinates: 41°40′56″N 83°35′27″W / 41.68222°N 83.59083°W |
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Type | Public, Coeducational high school |
Motto | We will conduct ourselves as if we are in a high tech, corporate business environment. |
Established | September 1997 |
School district | Toledo City School District |
Superintendent | Dr. Romulus Durant |
Director | Gary Thompson |
Grades | 7–12 |
Enrollment | 186[1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 19:1[2] |
Colour(s) | |
Slogan | A different kind of school; a different way to learn. |
Nickname | Tigers |
USNWR ranking | Bronze (National Recognition)[3] |
Average ACT scores | 23 (2009–2010)[4] |
Website | toledotechnologyacademy.org |
Background
Toledo Technology Academy is a public high school located in Toledo, Ohio. It is part of the Toledo Public Schools. It is located in the former DeVilbiss High School. Many students from surrounding suburban school districts, as well as private schools attend TTA. On November 27, 2013, TTA announced that they will accept applications from 7th and 8th grade in the next school year of 2014.[5] Toledo Technology Academy students study manufacturing engineering technology integrated with an academic environment. TTA is a magnet school focusing on a manufacturing engineering technology curriculum with academics integrated with technical classes preparing students for a rewarding, lifelong career in manufacturing technologies. TTA offers an academic foundation, four years of science, mathematics, language arts, and three years of social studies education.
TTA facts
- No Child Left Behind "Blue Ribbon Award" winner 2004.[6]
- Rated "Excellent" for Ohio Graduation Tests standards 2004-05, 2005–06 and 2006-07. Consistently meets and exceeds Annual Yearly Progress benchmarks. 2005/06 -- #2 State of Ohio, #1 Northwest Ohio.
- Designated a "Model School" by the International Center for Leadership in Education.[7]
- Ohio Superintendent "School of Promise" two years running.[8]
- National Robotics Champions 2006/07.[8]
- 4-year integrated academic and technical program in manufacturing technologies.[9]
- Nationally recognized and award winning curriculum.[10]
- Incorporates teamwork and hands-on training.
- Committed partnerships with businesses, unions, colleges, and industry.
- 70% of the students come from the TPS school district with the remaining 30% coming from outlying suburban schools. 42% +/- of the student population comes from economically disadvantaged families. 100% of the students graduate and finish their career technical competencies. 95% of the graduates (last two school years) are involved in post-secondary education.
As innovators, designers, researchers, planners, teachers, and managers, engineers work in a variety of professional fields. TTA provides students with a diverse and extensive hands-on training in plastics technologies, automated systems, manufacturing operations, computer-automated design, electronics and other manufacturing technologies.[11]
Students learn in an interactive atmosphere of teamwork, curiosity, and excellence, with industrial involvement and support. This school prepares students for high-paying technical careers, two and four-year college degrees, scholarships, internships, specific industrial certifications, honors and post secondary programs offered, and articulation agreements with area universities for advanced credit.[11]
Track record
TTA began as a two-year program within a traditional high school. In 1997, a collaborative partnership was formed with the school system, teaching and administrative unions, area businesses and the United Auto Workers, and a four-year high school was opened. What was found at that time continues to be true today. Technology, manufacturing, and engineering continue to be one of Toledo's largest opportunities for growth.[12] Our small and large manufacturers continually express an ongoing need for well-trained, high-quality, entry-level employees in trade, technical and engineering positions. Increasingly, these entry-level workers need more advanced high tech skills in addition to higher-level thinking/reasoning skills and teamwork experiences. Currently, 75% of the persons applying and/or interviewed for these positions are not qualified. Nationally and regionally schools are preparing only about 30% of this needed workforce. This information was gathered at the National Skill Standards Board meetings and continues to be true.
The mission of the original project was as follows: To support a four-year high school technical program related to Manufacturing Engineering Technology within Toledo Public School Systems known as the Toledo Technology Academy (TTA). TTA's instructional system uses project-based learning, allowing the students to have maximum decision-making responsibility. Skills are taught to support this process and technology is used to support all instruction. TTA provides a complete academic complement of courses for graduation and college entry. Weekly common planning meetings are held to incorporate and integrate instruction. Where appropriate, the academic course content is related to the manufacturing curriculum and vice versa.
Tech Fusion Team 279
Team Fusion Team 279 is the FIRST Robotics team located at Toledo Technology Academy.[13][14] It is open to all Toledo Public Schools students. The team is sponsored by Dana Holding Corporation in Maumee, Ohio.[15] Team 279 had accomplished major achievements in the 21st century:[16]
- 2001
- Won the National Competition with their alliance.
- 2003
- Won the General Motors Industrial Design Award.
- 2004
- Won the Great Lakes Regional.
- Awarded the Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Technology Award at the Buckeye Regional at the CSU Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Finished 4th in the National Competition.
- Finished 2nd in the Division.
- Received the Curie Division Finalist Award.
- 2005
- Received the Xerox Creativity Award at Great Lakes Regional and Nationals.
- Won the Safety Award at Great Lakes Regional and Buckeye Regional.
- Won the General Motors Industrial Design Award at Buckeye Regional.
- Won the Buckeye Regional.
- 2006
- Awarded the Underwriters Laboratory Safety Award at the Great Lakes Regional.
- Awarded the Safety Star of the Day Award at Nationals.
- 2008
- Awarded the Underwriters Laboratory Industrial Safety Award at Great Lakes Regional.
- 2009
- Selected for the Final Competition at the Buckeye Regional.
- 2011
- Won the Gracious Professionalism Award offered by Johnson and Johnson.
- Won the Innovation in Control Award from Rockwell Automation.
- 2012
- Received a Regional Finalist Award for being selected in the Championship Playoff in the Pittsburgh Regional.
- 2013
- Finished second in qualifications at the Cincinnati Regional.
References
- ↑ "Toledo Technology Academy Ranking". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- ↑ "Toledo Technology Academy Ranking". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- ↑ "Toledo Technology Academy Ranking". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- ↑ Rosenkrans, Nolan (5 September 2011). "ACT test scores vary at Toledo's public schools". Toledo Blade. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- ↑ "WTOL 11 NEWS: Toledo Technology Academy expanding to include 7th and 8th graders". Toledo Technology Academy expanding to include 7th and 8th graders. Raycom Media. 27 November 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- ↑ "2004 No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Schools Award" (PDF). Toledo Technology Academy – 2004 No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon School Application (PDF). U.S. Department of Education. September 2003. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- ↑ "TTA Model School". Toledo academy offers rich school-to-career lessons | American Federation of Teachers. AFT-CIO. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
- 1 2 "Toledo Blade: Audit Report for TPS Schools" (PDF). Full-audit-report-presented-April-3.pdf. Toledo Blade, Evergreen Solutions, LLC. 3 April 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
- ↑ Holst, Lindsay (29 July 2014). "Government Secretaries Study TTA". A Day in Ohio: Secretaries Perez and Duncan Go to Toledo. USA.gov. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
- ↑ "TTA: Recognition and Curriculum" (PDF). 2014.pdf. Toledo Blade, Toledo Public Schools. 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
- 1 2 "About TTA". The Toledo Technology Academy is. Toledo Technology Academy. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
- ↑ "GTAC-ATD Tour of TTA". GTAC-ATD tour of Toledo Technology Academy >> Toledo Tech Events: The Toledo Region's Tech Calendar. GTAC-ATD. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- ↑ Techfusion website
- ↑ FIRST
- ↑ Dana Corp.
- ↑ "Team 279 Achievements". About Team 279 - FIRST Robotics Team 279 - Tech Fusion. First Team 279. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.