CPE News

LCTE stages mock interviews At the latest session of Leadership in Career & Technical Education, kids enthusiastically held up “Stop” signs during mock job interviews, calling out behaviors and answers that might give employers pause—from slouching in chairs to looking at text alerts. They also practiced introducing themselves with the kind of elevator speech needed […]

Expert challenges educators to rethink goals for classroom learning  Nationally known educator and author Jay McTighe told southwestern Pennsylvania educators and business representatives in April that schools need to clarify their missions and better align curricula and assessment with what students need to “be able to do.” McTighe was the keynote speaker at a conference […]

TFIM Conference offers career insights from 16 different employers For Jayda, a Brownsville Area High School student planning a college minor in film, visiting Steeltown Entertainment was eye-opening. She said she found there was a lot more to making a movie than meets than meets the eye and a lot more to using a video […]

Alliance teams offer snapshots of their community partnerships Teams participating in our Future Ready Alliance gathered in April to discuss partnerships aimed at helping students explore and prepare for post-secondary education and careers. Their meeting also provided opportunities for interested schools and districts to meet with representatives of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory to assess […]

And the winners are… Winners in five categories took center stage on Saturday, April 7, 2018 when the Consortium for Public Education hosted its annual Champions of Learning Awards celebration and presented a Special Tribute to Sarah Tambucci, Ph.D, recently retired Director of the Arts Education Collaborative. Don Marinelli, Director of Innovation at 535 Media/Inven […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 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 […]