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With employers in some sectors again facing workforce shortages and many graduating seniors searching for jobs, the Consortium is piloting approaches to bring them together. Most recently, we worked with UPMC and UPMC Insurance Services to present a two-part webinar on healthcare careers for more than 30 interested students from a dozen high schools. Like [...]

Because Human-Centered Design (HCD) offers techniques for problem-solving that are useful in every administrator’s and teacher’s toolkit, we’ll again be offering HCD training sessions in the fall. Educators interested in these professional development opportunities can sign up now to receive notifications when sessions are being scheduled. To schedule customized trainings for groups, contact our Chief [...]

The school year is winding down, but like districts looking into next fall for Professional Development opportunities, we’re already booking them! Throughout the 2021-2022 school year, the Consortium again will be offering trainings in Project-Based Learning (PBL), a teaching method recommended for increasing student engagement, and Human-Centered Design (HCD), an approach to problem-solving that focuses [...]

One of the best kept secrets in higher education has been our country’s Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs). Consortium Program Associate Frank Kamara is an HBCU alum, and he is working to raise awareness of these institutions among students from the high schools participating in our EdLeaders Pittsburgh program. Since April, we’ve been facilitating [...]

A year after its launch, our Career Journeys video series is still gaining followers, inspiring a variety of classroom uses, and even drawing emulators as school districts across the region incorporate it into their career learning programs. Altogether, the 100+ interviews with professionals spanning 16 different career clusters have racked up more than 12,000 YouTube [...]

An Elsie Honors Scholar from the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute of Politics finished up an internship with the Consortium this month, saying the experience illuminated career options for her and is helping her consider one in particular. Interested in equity issues when she joined us, Kayla Henderson says she now also feels drawn toward working [...]

Participants in our Future Ready Alliance held two cross-district conversations this spring, one to share ideas for documenting students’ career learning milestones and another to discuss ways of advancing equity.

The Consortium plans to offer separate half-hour training webinars for educators and employers interested in providing small group career mentoring for students in a virtual or hybrid environment. The Pennsylvania Department of Education approved our model for small group mentoring as a substitute for the individual career mentoring qualified as an option for meeting state [...]

Our Project-Based Learning (PBL) team will offer a virtual opportunity to learn the basics of PBL beginning Tuesday, April 20th and continuing for half days on Tuesdays through May 11th. The program will focus on the 10 design elements of PBL, with a goal of giving participants the baseline understanding needed to take the methodology […]