Prerequisite: None

Students build life skills focusing on establishing positive relationships, balancing work and family life, investigating careers, making responsible consumer choices, applying nutrition and wellness knowledge, studying child development and parenting, and money management.

Prerequisite: None

Life Planning equips students with advanced life skills, including creating and maintaining healthy relationships, practicing personal nutrition, health, wellness, and developing a life management plan.

Prerequisite: None

Students enrolled in Nutrition and Wellness learn aspects of healthy living and eating. Units include understanding wellness, investigating principles of nutrition, ensuring food safety, and planning menu and preparing food.

Prerequisite: None

The Intro to Culinary Arts curriculum provides students with opportunities to explore career options and entrepreneurial opportunities within the food service history. Units include investigating food safety and sanitation, exploring culinary preparation foundations, practicing basic culinary skills, and exploring diverse cuisines and services styles.

Prerequisite: None

Students in Fashion Careers focus on identifying and exploring individual careers within the apparel, accessory, and textile design, manufacturing, and merchandising industry. Students will learn basic hand sewing and machine sewing skills and implement elements and principles of design into fashion and fabric construction.

Prerequisite: None

Students will focus on all aspects of pre and postnatal care and development from newborn to age 5. Students will also experience careers in child care. Units include balancing work and family, analyzing parenting roles and responsibilities, ensuring a healthy start for mother and child, evaluating support systems that provide services for parents, and evaluating parenting practices that maximize human growth and development.

Prerequisite: None

Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow (VTfT) fosters student interest, understanding, and appreciation of the teaching profession and allows secondary students to explore careers in education. Students build a foundation for teaching; learn the history, structure, and governance of teaching; apply professional teaching techniques in the VTfT classroom and reflect on their teaching experiences. Additional educational leadership opportunities are offered through the student organization, Future Educators Association.

Prerequisite: None

Students continue to explore careers in the Education and Training Cluster and pathways. This course provides the opportunity for students to prepare for careers in education as they research post-secondary options, learn about the process of teacher certification in Virginia, and participate in a practicum experience.