CPE News

New Board member is TFIM alumnus  Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald’s top aide has joined the Consortium’s Board. Austin Davis, who serves as Fitzgerald’s Executive Assistant, comes to the Consortium with a background in government and administration as well as personal experience in one of our flagship programs. In his current post, Mr. Davis monitors […]

PBL vets bring insights to training session Teachers experienced in Project-Based Learning (PBL) shared insights with old-hands and novices alike this month when some 20 educators gathered at the Consortium for training or a refresher on PBL basics. Recalling his own plunge into the method, Blackhawk High School environmental science teacher Rob Puskas told attendees, […]

Meet our new intern! Frank Kamara, an Associate from Public Allies Pittsburgh has joined the Consortium as an intern. He began this month and will work until June on the Refugee Youth Employment Project , which we offer in collaboration with Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Pittsburgh, and on Be A Middle School Mentor, which we’re rolling […]

Three district partners to work with CMU’s BrainHub Students from three of our partnering districts visited one of Carnegie Mellon University’s BrainHub laboratories in early October in anticipation of analyzing data that scientists there are generating to show how experience changes the brain. They’ll be trying to form conclusions and hypotheses by looking at data being […]

Nominate someone today for our annual Champions of Learning Awards    If you know individuals, organizations or businesses creating or supporting outstanding learning opportunities for students in western Pennsylvania, we want to hear from you! We’re now accepting nominations for our 2018 Champions of Learning Awards celebration. We’re looking for candidates in six categories: Arts, […]

Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory at Mathematica Policy Research kicks off Career Readiness initiative It’s always exciting to kick off a new school year, but even more so when you’re heading into it with a great new collaborator like the Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory at Mathematica Policy Research. Under a five-year federal contract, Mathematica Policy Research [...]

Be a middle school mentor in the mon valley There are more than a thousand kids in our region looking for mentors. Mentoring can change lives, so helping any one of them is a way you can make a difference! Please consider volunteering as little as an hour of your time each week during the […]

ECET2 draws nearly 100 educators Fox Chapel High School teacher Ryan Devlin told educators at the weekend Western Pennsylvania ECET2 (Elevating and Celebrating Effective Teaching and Teachers) event that his career course was set from the day he stepped foot in his first-grade classroom. The way she radiated warmth, the patience she showed giving lessons […]

Mon Valley partners join in Remake Learning Days   Eight Mon Valley partners are hosting hands-on learning demonstrations during Remake Learning Days, a regional event from May 15 through May 26 to showcase innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Hosting activities that anyone in the region can attend are Baldwin Borough Library, Allegheny Intermediate Unit, […]

Conference gives kids firsthand look at career options A visit to Dollar Bank during the annual student Leadership Conference for The Future Is Mine (TFIM) helped Amani, a McKeesport Area High School senior realize she might find her niche in financial services, even though her love is foreign languages. “I could go into international banking,” […]