Thank you for visiting the Design Arts CTE Pathway website!
What is a CTE Pathway?
A CTE (Career Technical Education) pathway is a sequence of two or more CTE courses within a student’s area of career interest. Pathways are designed to connect high school classes to college, industry certifications, and/or a career. Franklin's Design Arts Pathway is articulated with Sacramento City College so students in this pathway also have the opportunity to earn up to six units of college credit (for free)! Students also use industry standard Adobe Creative Cloud software to learn how to design and illustrate. These courses fulfill the VAPA graduation requirement as well.
Design Arts Pathway Sequence
- Digital Art & Graphic Design I (Introductory Course)
- Digital Art & Graphic Design II (Concentrator Course)
- Advanced Graphics Communication (Capstone Course)
The Design Arts Pathway is also a part of STEAM
By adding a fourth course, students can earn up to nine units of college credit and a cord at graduation. Click here to download the STEAM flyer for more information.
Graphic Design
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. ~ Albert Einstein
Graphic Design Student Projects
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~ Will Rogers
Create Day
What is Design Arts' Create Day? Watch this....
The goal of the Design Arts Pathway is to not only teach design and technical skills, but also to teach students HOW to collaborate. Using the philosophy of the book, "Collaborative Intelligence" and combining it with Design Thinking strategies, student have soared (and had a lot of fun, too)!
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” ~ Henry Ford
Lorna Miller
Design Arts Pathway Coordinator
Design Arts Pathway Coordinator and Instructor, Lorna Miller, brings over 20 years of design and teaching experience to this program. She has taught all levels of graphic design and traditional Art and continues to pursue learning the trade herself. Adobe Certified in Photoshop and Illustrator, she loves that no matter how much she knows about design, students are always teaching her as well. It's a subject you can never stop learning! Mrs. Miller LOVES creating, LOVES teaching at Franklin, and LOVES helping her students see that graphic design skills can be useful in ANY career.
“I’m not sayin’ I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will.” ~ Tupac Shakur
Want to learn more?
Please e-mail lkmiller@egusd.net if you'd like to know more about this fun and exciting CTE Pathway. You can also find us on Instagram @frhsinthegrid.
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The Elk Grove Unified School District welcomes those with disabilities to participate fully in the programs, services, and activities offered to students, parents, guardians and members of the public. If you need a disability-related modification or accommodation, including auxiliary aids or services, to participate in any program, service or activity offered to you, please contact the Career Technical Education Department at 916-686-7709 at least 48 hours before the scheduled event so that we may make every reasonable effort to accommodate you. Government Code: Section 54953.2; Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Section 202 (42 U.S.C. Section 12132.)