Conference highlighted models for collaboration between employers and schools Calling them “a wasted resource,” PNC Financial Group’s top executive said our region’s high schools and their students must figure prominently in our region’s employment picture to avoid the kind of talent drain his own company began heading off nearly two decades ago. “If the region’s […]
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Future Ready Partnerships Conference set for April 2
Exploring opportunities for school-business collaboration Our upcoming Future Ready Partnerships Conference will feature two of the region’s foremost proponents of collaboration between businesses and schools. Also on the agenda are speakers who already have engaged in the kinds of school-business partnerships that are helping better prepare students, while strengthening the region’s workforce. PNC Financial Services […]
TFIM to host 19th annual Student Leadership Conference
TFIM Conference features new site hosts and workshops Some 300 students will converge Downtown when our career exploration program, The Future Is Mine, holds its annual two-day Student Leadership Conference April 10th-11th. The Conference, themed “Cheers to 19 Years” in celebration of TFIM’s 19th anniversary, gets underway as it traditionally does with career explorations hosted […]
Special tributes to be made at Champions of Learning Awards celebration
TFIM’s 19th annual Student Leadership Conference coming up in April
TFIM Conference features new site hosts, innovative workshops Some 350 students will converge Downtown when our career exploration program, The Future Is Mine, holds its annual two-day Student Leadership Conference April 10th-11th. Themed “Cheers to 19 Years” in celebration of TFIM’s 19th anniversary, the Conference gets underway as it traditionally does with career explorations hosted […]
Educator in the Workforce participants made site visits to two employers in March
Employers give insights on skills students need Learning about career paths available at ALCOSAN was “eye opening” for Clairton City School District’s Tom McCloskey, as were visits a week earlier to PNC Financial Corp. and several others last year that he made through Educator in the Workforce. As Principal of the district’s Cyber School. “All […]
REL workshop gives insights on career planning for students
Self-exploration is critical to student career planning Now that Pennsylvania public schools are tasked with helping all students create career plans, they need to go a step further—have them create three. While they’re at it, schools also should make sure that kids don’t begin career planning without having first explored their interests and assessed their […]
Alliance hosts CMU professor for session on social and emotional learning
Alliance presentation sheds light on teen behavior Remember the billion-dollar, 1970s advertising campaign warning young people about the dangers of drugs—how they’d fry your brain like an egg, among other things? It had no effect. Drug use didn’t decline at all. Despite reaching millions of people, the campaign likely failed its intended purpose because of […]
A chance for elementary kids to learn coding
Rand seeks elementary schools for coding study March 1 is the deadline for applying to participate in the Rand Corp.’s codeSpark pilot. Using codeSpark’s “Learn to Code” platform kids will learn coding and computational thinking using puzzles and games. RAND Corporation is seeking southwestern Pennsylvania elementary schools to participate in a pilot test of codeSPARK’s […]
UPMC again provides sponsorships
UPMC renews support UPMC has again become a sponsor both for the Consortium’s annual Student Leadership Conference for The Future Is Mine (TFIM), our career exploration program for high school students and for our Champions of Learning Awards celebration. “We’re very grateful to UPMC,” said the Consortium’s Executive Director Mary Kay Babyak. “The health system […]