by newseditor on 05/10/2012
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.
by newseditor on 05/03/2012
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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
Download the five-page PDF for printing.
by newseditor on 05/03/2012
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.
