CPE News

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,” […]

  Thanks to site hosts and sponsors, TFIM’s annual two-day Student Leadership Conference kicks off April 20 Our annual two-day Student Leadership Conference for The Future Is Mine (TFIM) kicks off Thursday morning with site visits to 16 different employers and support from dozens of others. Please join us in shout out to the companies […]

First Energy hosts project presentations  Students from Blackhawk High School presented findings this week to engineers at First Energy who visited the informal displays showing how they’d approach challenges related to nuclear energy. The students embarked on the projects as participants in our Student Powered Solutions program. The challenges ranged from aesthetic to scientific, with […]

Consortium taps six winners at Champions of Learning Awards celebration and makes special tribute Winners in six categories took center stage Saturday, April 1, 2017 when the Consortium for Public Education presented its annual Champions of Learning Awards. Don Marinelli, Director of Innovation at 535 Media/Inven Global, emceed the event at the Pittsburgh Marriott City […]

CCK hosted college and apprenticeship visits in March Our College & Career Knowledge (CCK) program has had a busy month in March, with visits to Penn State Greater Allegheny and two apprenticeship training centers. Groups of students from Clairton, McKeesport Area and Steel Valley High Schools spent a half at Penn State Greater Allegheny touring […]

Students recommend remedies for stormwater runoff  Teams from Penn Hills and South Fayette school districts presented findings and recommendations last week after ALCOSAN  (Allegheny County Sanitary Authority) tasked them with identifying ways to reduce storm water runoff on the campuses of their respective schools. They took up the challenge as part of our Student Powered […]

Human-centered design principles lay foundation for partnership discussions Districts involved in the Consortium’s Career Ready initiative convened this week with representatives from business and higher education to develop models for partnerships. Using human-centered design principles at a March 15 meeting, they worked in groups to flesh out “personas” of students in several age groups and […]