October Administrator Highlight

Tom Safranek-Flagstaff Unified School District, Director of College and Career Development

For the month of October, ACOVA is happy to highlight Tom Safranek, Director of College and Career Development in the Flagstaff Unified School District.

Nominated by, Lance Huffman, Ed.L.D-FUSD Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction

Mr. Safranek has made a powerful impact on the CTE programs during his tenure at Flagstaff Unified School District. In his role of Director of Career Development, he leads professional developments, coordinates collaborations, and other efforts to support all the CTE teachers in the district. In addition to those responsibilities, he has also helped to strengthen and expand the offerings to students across the district. Mr. Safranek believes deeply in the opportunities that CTE provides to students, and that deep belief drives his work to continually improve our offerings. Mr. Safranek continues to advocate for his programs, his teachers, and his students by looking for ways to provide more opportunities, more pathways, and more course offerings. In the last few years, the CTE programs have expanded to include engineering, law enforcement, and agricultural science. All of this has been done under his leadership.

Another celebration is that Mr. Safranek recently partnered with Moonshot, an entrepreneur-training program, to offer business training to some of their automotive students. Early successes suggest this could be an expanded offering in future years.

Congratulations to Mr. Tom Safranek for being recognized as the ACOVA October Administrator Highlight!

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