CPE News

Educators left our Future Ready Partnerships Conference earlier this month with leads on opportunities for their schools and new contacts to help put them in place. Just the number of businesses and organizations willing to work with schools surprised Daniel Pounds, a Personalized Learning Coach in Burrell School District.  “It just blew my mind that […]

In the past year, the Consortium has offered two new resources that educators might want to check out if they haven’t already. One is a new blog about Equity & Engagement in Education. The other is a new video series called I Reach, I Teach: Conversations with Educators of Color. A recent blog post combining […]

As part of our Future Ready Leaders (FRL) initiative, Montour Area School District’s team offered a career fair for peers featuring businesses, post-secondary programs, and volunteer opportunities.  South Allegheny School District’s team is offering a discussion series about scholarship opportunities, choosing core classes and electives, and other topics to support peers in planning for the […]

Career & Technology Centers (CTCs) emerged as one of two big themes at our first Future Ready Partnerships Conferences this spring, sharing the spotlight with the main event, school-business partnerships. A second Conference is slated for April. The focus on Career & Technology Centers came during a panel discussion as well as in the questions […]

With new state-mandated science standards scheduled for implementation beginning in 2025, Fox Chapel Area School District wanted to ensure that its educators had tools for translating them into classroom lessons and knew other districts would be looking for support as well. It won a PAsmart Advancing Grant to launch the STEM ACES initiative in collaboration […]

Our Professional Development Team is already booking customized training sessions and consulting work for 2023-2024. We’re making our full menu of options available now for districts or schools that want to incorporate professional development or future readiness support in grant applications.  Our menu of offerings ranges from tools for improving classroom and community engagement, to […]

With many school counselors seeing their duties expand into the realm of ensuring students’ future readiness, the Consortium brought more than 75 counselors together to see where it might provide support. “Our goal is finding out where regionally there are common needs that we might be able to address with a program in the next […]

At a time when many school counselors are experiencing expansion in their professional roles, the Consortium plans to convene a group of them on Tuesday, March 14 with a view toward identifying areas involving students’ future readiness that might call for additional support. “We want to see whether there might be a program we could […]

Mascaro Construction Co. President John Mascaro, Jr. and Community College of Beaveer County President Roger Davis, Ed.D, will kick off the first of two Future Ready Partnerships Conferences this year with a keynote conversation about how they’ve collaborated to introduce students to construction industry careers beginning in high school. Also on the agenda will be […]

Three words have so long defined our work that we turned them into our tagline a decade ago. For the same reason, we’re now putting them into service as the title of our new blog: Equity & Engagement in Education.  We hope everyone with an interest in exploring these topics will follow the writings and […]