SPS teams presented ideas for marketing Remake Learning Days When Remake Learning Days kick off this year, you just might learn about them during a basketball game at your school. Marketing at sporting events was an idea that came out of a Student Powered Solutions project earlier this month when teams from McKeesport Area and […]
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Catching up on the Future Ready Alliance
Future Ready Alliance offered training in Project-Based Learning Members of our Future Ready Alliance who wanted a better understanding of Project-Based Learning (PBL) came together in late February for a targeted training session. The session also gave participants training in classroom use of Socratic Seminars and Design Thinking. “It was the best professional development I’ve […]
Honors for two Consortium Board members
Two Consortium Board members honored Two Consortium Board members are being honored this year for professional accomplishments. Yough School District Superintendent Janet Sardon, Ed.D. has been chosen to receive the Tri-State Area School Study Council’s Distinguished Female Educator award April 4 at this year’s Dr. Jean E, Winsand Workshop for Women in Educational Leadership. Melissa Swauger, […]
Generation Stoneworks President joins Consortium Board
Consortium adds new Board member Joseph C. Castagnola, President of McKeesport-based Generation Stoneworks , joined the Consortium’s Board in March. Before becoming its president, he began working at the company his father founded under the name Prada in 2004, learning all aspects of the business before taking the helm in 2016. Begun in 1988, the family-run business […]
CCK helps students explore apprenticeships
CCK helps Brashear and Perry students check out trade apprenticeships A junior at Pittsburgh Brashear High School, Dashawn has thought for a while he’d take up carpentry when he graduates, but he didn’t know there was a local apprenticeship training center where he could learn the craft. Before he visited the Carpenters Training Center run […]
SPS puts kids in the driver’s seat at Covestro
Students help Covestro forecast features of autonomous vehicles Company managers and engineers recently had a chance to learn how today’s students would steer product development for tomorrow’s autonomous vehicles if they were in the driver’s seat at Covestro. Kids from a South Fayette High School science class gave recommendations on automotive features their generation would […]
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AEO Foundation renews support for TFIM
Consortium expresses thanks for grant from AEO Foundation American Eagle Outfitters Foundation is again helping support The Future Is Mine (TFIM) and its annual Student Leadership Conference. “We very grateful for companies like American Eagle and the philanthropies they create to help kids and others in our community,” said the Consortium’s Executive Director Mary Kay Babyak. […]
Site hosts lined up for TFIM Student Leadership Conference
“Putting the Pieces Together” at TFIM Student Leadership Conference Businesses and organizations hosting explorations this year during our annual Student Leadership Conference for The Future Is Mine (TFIM) will give kids opportunities to look at careers in fields ranging from healthcare and government to financial services and video game design. “We’ll have 16 different employers […]
Connecting classrooms to careers
South Allegheny event features business breakouts Some 21 businesses hosted workshops as part of a professional learning session that South Allegheny School District organized on Connecting Classrooms to Careers. Interest in the event proved strong, with roughly 130 educators attending, including a fifth from other districts. Organizers could sense they’d tapped into a vein. “We […]