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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 [...]

Are you a passionate professional looking to make a difference in the lives of families and children? We're looking to hire two Early Head Start Home Visitors to join our team.  Home Visitors for the Early Head Start Program are critical in promoting early childhood education and building secure attachments between the infant/toddler and family [...]

A longstanding partner of the Consortium, The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern PA, is widely recognized for The Magic of Mentoring – an event held every other year to celebrate the power of mentoring that honors people, organizations, and programs that power those influential relationships.  Among other amazing organizations, the Consortium was recognized as the Program [...]

With a room filled with over 700 school educators from six school districts, PA Secretary of Education Dr. Khalid Mumin took the stage to offer his encouraging and fortifying keynote address. The high-impact, multi-district professional development day focused on Building a Positive School Culture. With a palpable sense of camaraderie, educators heard takeaways from Secretary [...]

They’re just beginning school and they seem so little it’s difficult to imagine that elementary students already need help becoming future ready. But research suggests they’re at the perfect age to begin.  With a greater focus on elementary future readiness, the Consortium recently gave a webinar for members of the Pennsylvania School Counselors Association (PSCA) on […]

With their passion for supporting students who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community, Dr. Christy Kuehn and Sarah Brooks were invited to give a presentation at Intermediate Unit 1’s common professional development day. Their goal was to provide educators with additional resources for serving this population of students, ranging from specific strategies to broad […]