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Consortium and Heinz Endowments launching Future Readiness Lab As Senior Program Director for Education at The Heinz Endowments, Stan Thompson, EdD, sees grant applications peppered with the words “college and career ready.” “Here’s the problem,” he said in a video overview, “Not nearly all students ever experience the promise of this phrase.” To find ways […]

Consortium to provide PBL training as partner in Remake Tomorrow As one of 17 grantees partnering with The Grable Foundation on a $1.4 million initiative aimed at learning innovation, the Consortium for Public Education will launch a training program to support early-career teachers in using Project-Based Learning (PBL). “Our goal as part of this initiative, […]

Paving the way to partner amid pandemic The Consortium is rolling out a menu of virtual options this week for employers and post-secondary partners looking for ways to work with K-12 students and maintain visibility in public schools. Businesses or academic institutions can certainly execute most, if not all of these ideas, on their own, […]

Learn about our Career Journeys Student Video Contest! We’re asking educators to encourage students in grades 6-12 to enter our Career Journeys Student Video Contest. Just entering provides some useful experience and winners can look forward to even more! So please share our contest guidelines in your classes and give students links to our online […]

Human-Centered Design training can help districts be more agile and responsive At a time of unprecedented change, school systems need tools to ensure they’re agile and responsive. That’s why the Consortium will be offering customized Human-Centered Design (HCD) workshops to help districts and their educators address challenges while taking full stock of stakeholder needs. Education […]

Consortium trainings offer PBL strategies for both classroom and online learning Whether students are in classrooms or learning online, the training we offer in Project-Based Learning (PBL) can help teachers use PBL strategies to create engaging learning opportunities. The Consortium’s trainings this year will adopt a hybrid model, combining videos our PBL team has created […]

Career Journeys video series now spans 16 different career clusters Our library of Career Journeys videos now includes interviews with more than 50 professionals whose jobs span all 16 career clusters that the U.S. Department of Labor uses to track employment. That’s up from just a handful of interviews last spring when we launched the […]

CPE welcomes new Board member We’re pleased to welcome Don Martin, Ed.D., Executive Director of Intermediate Unit 1, to our Board of Directors. His appointment was approved in July. “We’ve always valued Don’s insight and we’ll certainly benefit from his extensive experience in education, both in the classroom and at the administrative level,” said The […]

Three different people, three different paths… In our latest Career Journeys videos, LaTrenda Sherrill, M.B.A., a business consultant,  talks about entrepreneurship. Omar Badran tells us about nursing and his work as a service Improvement Specialist for UPMC’s Intensive Care Units. And the Rev. Lee Scott shares the soul-nurturing satisfactions he finds tending his family’s farm […]