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The inaugural session of our Act 45 course Using Human-Centered Design (HCD) to Support Student Growth & Achievement is getting excellent reviews as educators enter the home stretch of their work. Participants report both enjoying the course and also reaping benefits from learning among peers. New Kensington-Arnold School District Superintendent Chris Sefcheck, Ed.D., for example, […]

It was the third he’d attended, but Kris Hupp said he seems always to get something new out our annual Future Ready Partnerships Conference (FRPC). Among takeaways from this year’s, the Cornell School District Director of Technology & Instructional Innovation said he and two Cornell teachers who accompanied him got some ideas from the “hands […]

Teachers in K-12 schools have increasingly been expected to support students in career learning. But it can be a challenge for the many who have had little exposure to jobs or workplaces outside of education. That’s why Cornell School District decided to offer its teachers an Educator in the Workforce (EIW) experience from the Consortium’s […]

Teams participating in Future Ready Leaders (FRL) will come together again in March to share insights from their project implementations. The teams met in January to get feedback from peers on projects that ranged from designing a Google site that helps students align high school electives with college and career plans, to hosting guest speakers […]

Employers may think of career fairs strictly as events in which they’re invited to participate, whether by schools, trade associations or others who might organize them. As UPMC found last fall, however, an employer might have a better shot at recruiting if it instead serves as host. A career fair that the healthcare giant hosted […]

Some 40 administrators and others interested in school budgeting came together in January to get tips and tools to help focus the process on specific priorities and make it more transparent. During a January 9th webinar (recorded here), our Human-Centered Design (HCD) coaches helped attendees learn how HCD could help ensure that any changes they […]

Future Ready Leaders (FRL) kicked off its third year of programming in November by bringing together school teams from nine participating districts. In this program, district teams work together to cultivate student leadership in ways that support future readiness for all students in their schools. This network of teams, made up of students working alongside [...]

We hope to see you at one or more of these opportunities in early 2024!  Webinar: Strategies for Engaging Stakeholders in the Budgeting Process, January 9 at 11:30 am Act 45 Course: Using Human-Centered Design to Support Student Growth and Achievement  Spring Cohort Registration – Meeting dates: 2/8, 2/28, 3/26, 4/16, 5/8  Summer Cohort Registration […]

Project-based learning (PBL) + Sustainability + Community Partnerships. That's the formula for the Consortium’s new Student Sustainability Design Challenge (SSDC) that launched in October with 120 students from 15 schools across Western PA gathering at the Energy Innovation Center in downtown Pittsburgh.   The SSDC was developed with this driving question in mind: How might we inspire [...]

On October 25th, more than 120 student ambassadors from 15 school districts across Western Pennsylvania gathered at the Energy Innovation Center (EIC) in downtown Pittsburgh to learn from sustainability experts spanning industries, community organizations, and higher education.  As participants in the Consortium’s Student Sustainability Design Challenge (SSDC), these student ambassadors will channel what they’ve learned [...]