Dress to impress

CABAM involves giving students industry certifications, as well as teaching business skills.

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Empowering success early in lives can have a big effect on the future. Being in a school with a Center for Wellness and Medical Professions program, an International Baccalaureate program, and Center of Academics for Business Administration and Management program can be crazy at times. Some students are not as familiar with the school’s new  business program, even though it is enrolling more classes each year.

“I’d like us to become a magnet or application program to attract more students who are serious about this content. I do like the selection of classes we offer for the students, but I really wish that we could offer more: Business Law, Management and HR. We are looking to add an additional program next year; not sure what it will be yet,” teacher Kevin Schachter said.

Taught by Tamisan Latherow and Kevin Schachter, there are several classes to choose from. Digital Information Technology, or taught at some middle schools as Computing for College and Careers, is the entry course for the program. After that course is completed, students can choose from the core classes Accounting Applications I, Legal Aspects of Business, Business & Entrepreneurial Principles, and Management and Human Resources.

“I enjoy teaching web design because it allows the most flexibility for students to tailor their interest level to the program. I also see the greatest quantity of growth in the students because many come in with no knowledge at all, so it’s all brand new and fresh,” Mrs. Latherow said.

If you are planning on going into a business field after high school, you can take one of the business major classes. Those options include Accounting Associate, Administrative Assistant, Business Supervision & Management, Digital Design, Legal Administrative Assistant, Medical Administrative Assistant, and Web Design. No matter which course you are taking, there are job shadowing days, professional dress days, college fairs, industry certifications, and several other activities you can be involved in to help prepare you for the future.

“It has taught me how paying for college works, how to sign up for college, and also how to get scholarships. It really has given me all the information I need for after high school,” Jazmyn Snow (’17) said.

Overall, the program teaches students how to prepare for their future, and to get ready for what is next.