Workforce Opportunity Services (WOS), a non-profit based in Manhattan, hosted another Brown Bag Lunch with a CTE school this week. Sophomores from the Business of Sports School attended a one-hour lunch session where they spoke with WOS staff about their career goals and plans, and also heard about the career paths taken by the WOS and Business of Sports School staff. Students were able to ask the panelists questions about how they arrived at their current positions and also offered suggestions on what they would like to see in career exploration field trips. WOS is very excited about hosting Brown Bag Lunches for CTE students and interested CTE school personnel should email Cecelia Towns  or phone 917-243-8582 if they would like to have a Brown Bag Lunch for their students.

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David Fischer, the Senior Director of CTE at the NYC Department of Education, has launched a new monthly publication about career and technical education in New York City:

The New York City Department of Education’s  Office of Postsecondary Readiness (OPSR) has launched CTE Spotlight as part of its ongoing effort to create a new, shared space for the CTE community in New York City. Each month, it will feature enlightening stories and commentaries on the Department’s most successful CTE academies, schools and programs.

Our goal is for this periodical to stand as a mantle for our successes and a platform for the key issues facing our field. Additionally, it will serve as an information resource for deadlines, new opportunities for funding and programs, and emerging structures within our field.

April headlines include:

Competition Corner on the Virtual Enterprises International Competition

NYC All Star Legal Team Wins First High School International Moot Court

In Their Own Words: Guiding the Student Advisory Council

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Teacher Phil Gazard and scenes from the Gompers CTE High School model house. (Photo: DNAinfo/Patrick Wall)

Students at the Samuel Gompers CTE High School in the South Bronx build a 200-square-foot model house every year as part of their construction trades curriculum. Teacher Phil Gazard provides some of the raw materials himself, and the school administration and industry partner Marjam Supply help out. An article in DNAinfo by Patrick Wall tells the story:

Gazard teaches electro-mechanical installation and repair to juniors and seniors during the day; three evenings a week, he offers a similar course through the school’s adult education program. Most of his high school students have learning or other disabilities…

Gazard, who has worked as a plumber, pipefitter, electrician and machine repairman, has also taught at a school run by the electrical workers union since 1988, and has wielded that connection to land his students — and a few of their parents — union jobs.

A list stapled to a bulletin board in the back of the room names over 100 former students who now do high-paying union work. Next to the list hangs a photocopied note from one of Gazard’s old charges who thanked his former teacher for the “great foundation” he laid.

Read the whole story and see the slide show at DNAinfo.com.

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Obama Administration Releases a Blueprint for CTE

04.23.2012

As part of the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, the primary federal law covering CTE, the U.S. Department of Education proposes a$1 billion investment in the FY 2013 budget for a blueprint covering four key areas: Alignment: Ensuring that the skills taught in CTE programs reflect the actual needs of [...]

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This Weekend, Cheer C-CAP Grad Lester Walker on Food Network TV

04.12.2012

Lester Walker, a Park West High School graduate of C-CAP, the Careers Through Culinary Arts Program, will compete for the $10,000 top prize on the Food Network’s Chopped program: Chopped is a cooking competition show that’s all about skill, speed and ingenuity where four up-and-coming chefs compete before a panel of three expert judges and [...]

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IAM Students Featured at TEDxHarlem March 27 at the Apollo

03.20.2012

Students from the High School for Innovation in Advertising and Media (IAM) in Brooklyn will present their advertising work during the TEDxHarlem Conference on March 27th at the world renowned Apollo Theater. The 4A’s and the Advertising Club of New York partnered with the LivingLabs Foundation to create the opportunity for IAM students to develop an integrated advertising [...]

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Register for Summer 2012 Courses for CTE Work-Based Learning Program Coordinator Certification

02.29.2012

New York City College of Technology is offering two summer courses during the summer of 2012 for CTE teachers who want to be certified as Coordinator of Work-based Learning (WBL) Programs: 1st Summer Session (Summer 1S) May 31 – June 26, 2012 EDU 4580/0154 – Coordination of Diversified Work-based Learning Programs I – Organization (3 [...]

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ABC-7 Covers the High School Automotive Competition

02.21.2012

Twelve teams of New York automotive students competed in the recent regional preliminaries leading up to the National Automotive Technology Competition. The Automotive Finals take place at the New York International Automobile Show April 10 and 11. ABC’s Art McFarland visited the action, described the prizes and scholarships and interviewed the winning students. Click to [...]

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