Toledo Technology Academy

Toledo Technology Academy High School
Address
3301 Upton Avenue
Toledo, Ohio, (Lucas County) 43613
United States
Coordinates 41°40′56″N 83°35′27″W / 41.68222°N 83.59083°W / 41.68222; -83.59083Coordinates: 41°40′56″N 83°35′27″W / 41.68222°N 83.59083°W / 41.68222; -83.59083
Information
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)

Dark Green & Orange

         
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

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]

References

  1. ↑ "Toledo Technology Academy Ranking". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "Toledo Technology Academy Ranking". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Toledo Technology Academy Ranking". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Rosenkrans, Nolan (5 September 2011). "ACT test scores vary at Toledo's public schools". Toledo Blade. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  5. ↑ "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.
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. ↑ "TTA Model School". Toledo academy offers rich school-to-career lessons | American Federation of Teachers. AFT-CIO. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  8. 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.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ "TTA: Recognition and Curriculum" (PDF). 2014.pdf. Toledo Blade, Toledo Public Schools. 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  11. 1 2 "About TTA". The Toledo Technology Academy is. Toledo Technology Academy. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  12. ↑ "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.
  13. ↑ Techfusion website
  14. ↑ FIRST
  15. ↑ Dana Corp.
  16. ↑ "Team 279 Achievements". About Team 279 - FIRST Robotics Team 279 - Tech Fusion. First Team 279. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
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