TUSD CTE Pilot Program — Executive Summary

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Prepared for Chuck McCollum
CTE Coordinator, Tucson Unified
June 12, 2026

A turnkey, gamified workforce-development program for TUSD CTE — three connected career lanes, a student-built Showcase Magazine (mixed-media flip book + printed issue), and an inter-school Reality Health Games™ competition that culminates in a championship event TUSD hosts. The whole experience lives in one role-based platform: students choose a lane, learn in regional virtual classrooms, and turn health ideas into measurable community impact — culminating in a year-end showcase event the students produce. The ask is intentionally open: start with the schools and scope where you'll see value first, then expand.

Three Workforce Lanes — mapped to TUSD's CTE programs

🩺 Healthcare Pre-ApprenticeBioscience, Sports Med, Medical/Dental/Pharmacy, Home Health — hosted by Dr. Rob.

🚀 STEM & STEAM · MarstronautEngineering, CS, cyber, manufacturing & the trades — plus the creative media that powers the magazine.

💡 Business · My Healthy IDEASFinance, marketing, media & entrepreneurship — hosted by Coach Lucy.

What's included

Regional Virtual Campus — 5 TUSD regions (Arcadia, Silverbell, Arroyo Chico, Santa Cruz, Pantano), each with its medallion branding and home schools.
Role-based dashboards — CTE Administrator (Coach Chuck), District Director, Instructor & Student.
Game Mode + gamified Gradebook with Learn·Live·Share coins, badges & leaderboards.
PHIT & IDEAS Scorecards — county workforce gaps + quantified community impact.
Showcase Magazine — flip book + printed issue delivered to families; every CTE program contributes.
Owned newsfeed, calendar, resource directory & Listening Lab — a real channel beyond Facebook/Instagram.
Target-conversion model — every school in each region is an outreach target your leadership students convert.

Proof of impact — sample IDEAS Scorecard

52 pints

3 blood drives · up to 156 lives

$4,000

200 hrs to Habitat for Humanity

1 life saved

"Get Your Butt Checked" caught Stage 1 cancer

~1,350 hrs

total impact ≈ $27,000 community value

5 STEAM

teams roll up to school & region

$100→10×

garden harvesting; scaling tenfold

150×

Ripple Factor — 42 student leaders → ~6,300 people reached across school, feeder MS/EL, families & community. We manage, watch & quantify every ripple back to its own community.

Partners & Compliance

Pipeline ConnectsBanner Health AZ Healthcare Workforce Action NetworkChamber of Southern Arizona (soon)

FERPA-first by design: district keeps control of education records; COPPA-aligned for under-13; HIPAA-aware (aggregate PHIT data); strict role-based access; ad-free, never sold. A Data Privacy Agreement governs the pilot.

THE ASK — open & value-first

Start where you want to see value, then expand — no fixed package required.

Starting point: $2,500 / high school + $10,000 white-label platform set-up.
Optional add-ons: certified FFH Coach · Earned-It rewards · printed Showcase Magazine.
Culminates in: a student-produced year-end showcase event.

Co-funding angles: Perkins V · AZ STO tax-credit · CTSO (HOSA · FFA · FCCLA).

Coach Lucy Howell · CEO, The Force for Health Network · lucy@theforceforhealth.com