Deadline approaching for
Journey to Learn enrollment
Whether you’re looking for new approaches to convey math concepts, new techniques for teaching literature or even ways to combine the two, you’ll find them during The Consortium for Public Education’s annual Journey to Learn. This year’s Journey takes place Friday, October 22. The deadline for registration is September 13.
The region-wide professional development experience features nearly 130 different workshops hosted in 15 different districts. As always, workshop presenters will share their own best practices for teaching, counseling, administration and other topics of interest to educators.
For further details and a PDF containing descriptions and locations of available workshops, click here.
Registration cards can be obtained from district or building coordinators.
Consortium chosen to help launch pilot
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation and United Way of Allegheny County have tapped The Consortium for Public Education and three other community-based organizations to pilot an initiative to introduce high school freshmen to career paths in the region’s largest employment sector. To learn more, click here.
Consortium to test concepts for
pilot on personalized learning
Educators discuss ideas about personalized learning during a June focus group session
Based on continuing focus group feedback, The Consortium will move ahead to refine and test concepts for a pilot program that would support schools in introducing individual learning plans. For more details, click here.
Consortium’s early literacy challenge helps districts improve learning readiness
Steel Valley Literacy Fair helps parents build learning readiness
Four years ago, The Consortium for Public Education began working with a network of districts to improve learning readiness among pre-school students. Steel Valley School District is a shining example of how those districts are realizing measurable gains. To read more about it, click here.
Students and teachers learn tricks
of the digital storytelling trade
Stories that students wrote on paper bags are set to become part of a panorama created with Carnegie Mellon University’s Gigapan camera technology
The Consortium for Public Education’s latest Digital Storytelling seminar brought more than 120 students and teachers from across the region together to learn the techniques of creating narratives, whether on a page or on a stage. To read about what they learned from some leading Pittsburgh professionals, click here.
Conference gives TFIM teams a glimpse into the real world of work
Two students take a look at the applications Dollar Bank’s programmers are creating for i-Pad users.
Teams attending the 10th annual Student Leadership Conference hosted by The Consortium for Public Education’s career exploration program, The Future Is Mine (TFIM), looked at the world of work through the eyes of employees at 14 different Pittsburgh companies and organizations in April. For a full story on what they saw, click here.
CMU's CREATE Lab hosts site visit with TFIM team
Brownsville students huddle around a computer while working on a project at the CREATE Lab.
A team of students from Brownsville Area High School got a hands-on opportunity to learn about Gigapan photography during a visit this month to Carnegie Mellon University’s Community Robotics Education and Technology Empowerment (CREATE) Lab.
Their visit was just one of many on-site experiences students from high schools in 25 districts can receive each year as part of their participation in The Consortium for Public Education’s career exploration and student leadership program, The Future Is Mine (TFIM). To read more about what they learned and what other TFIM teams are doing, click here.
Evaluation gives high marks to Consortium's career exploration program
A survey and evaluation performed for The Consortium for Public Education's career exploration program, The Future Is Mine (TFIM), found TFIM meeting goals in all three of the areas in which it aims to support student participants. Click here for more details and executive summary.
