About Us

Bond Wilson Technical Center is a bold, new district initiative to revamp the high school experience around students’ career interests and our local industry.  Innovative dual credit offerings combined with industry experiences will result in our students being ready to enter the workforce and the post-secondary setting. The objective of the center is to develop a new generation of globally competitive, skilled students that will support the evolving economic needs of the Navajo Nation and our surrounding communities.

BWTC offers students in the 10th through 12th grades, Six new guided post-secondary pathways in lieu of their traditional high school based elective offerings. Each pathway will result in the student attaining university credits and work-based learning opportunities. Students will complete all of their regular core classes at their home high school, and then attend Bond Wilson Technical Center for their higher education classes and coursework.

Any high school student (10th-12th) in Central Consolidated School District can participate in the early college initiatives hosted at Bond Wilson Technical Center. We are taking new students now! CCSD Students can apply now at this link. 

For more information please call us at 505-598-4580

Students from all four high schools within Central Consolidated School District can participate.   This includes Kirtland Central High School, Shiprock High School, Career Prep High School and Newcomb High School (@ NHS). Students must be in 10th, 11th, or 12th grade for the current school year. For additional requirements please see the application here.

We have had some interest from students and parents who reside outside of our school district.  If this is the case and you are interested in enrolling your student please contact us at 505-598-4580.

BWTC currently offers students in the 10th through 12th grades, six new guided post-secondary pathways in place of their traditional high school-based elective offerings. Each Pathway will result in the student attaining university credits and an industry credential. Students will complete all their core classes at their home high school and then travel to Bond Wilson Technical Center for higher education classes and coursework.

In collaboration with Navajo Technical University, San Juan College, and our local industry partners, Raytheon, Arizona Public Service, Navajo Transitional Energy Company, & North American Coal-Bisti Fuels, we have developed nine university pathways.

The pathways are Culinary Arts, Welding, Construction, Engineering/Energy Systems, Engineering Graphics, Early Childhood Education, Health Science (Pre-Nursing), and Information Technology, Entrepreneurship/Finance.

For more specific year-to-year offerings please see the PDF here.

Bond Wilson Technical Center is housed within the former Grace B. Wilson Elementary School. The name Bond Wilson came from former elementary schools Grace B. Wilson and Ruth N. Bond. When Judy Nelson Elementary School opened in 2017, Grace B. Wilson Elementary was slated to be torn down. Rather than lose the building, Central Consolidated School District  requested permission from the State of New Mexico to re-open the building as a center for early college academy initiatives. The State of New Mexico agreed, and Bond Wilson was born.

Industry-Based Education gets its name from the "Place Based" education movement. Like Placed Based Education, Industry Based Education is an approach to learning that takes advantage of "Place" to create authentic, meaningful and engaging personalized learning for students.  With the help of local industry we have developed immersive curriculum, new course offerings and career experiences that will make our students ready for work and college.

For more information about our this educational philosophy please see the video below:

To put it simply, a College Academy is a guided dual credit pathway for high school students. The College Academies at Bond Wilson Technical Center place our high school students in a work based learning pathway based on their career interests.  This model allows our students to still participate in activities and athletics at their local high school while providing them with additional opportunities for dual credit and skill attainment.

The College Academies at Bond Wilson Technical Center meets all requirements set by the New Mexico Public Educations Early College High School Initiative. BWTC has also received full designation status from the NMPED in 2018. For more information on our designation and to see other schools that have met this designation, please visit the NMPED ECHS website.

Bond Wilson Technical Center is little different than the traditional ECHS model and here's how: