Woodwork and auto-shop classes waned in popularity when most millennials were in high school, but shop class isn’t dead in San Francisco public schools. Take John O’Connell Technical High School, for example.
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A school district pioneered a partnership with Climate Action Pathways for Schools, where students educate fellow students on climate change and green jobs, help manage routes for the school's electric buses, and work with farmers to bring local food to cafeterias. They also train for internships and earn California's minimum wage. An amazing example of #realworldlearning and #careerconnectedlearning: "CAPS is part of a growing trend. Like similar programs in Missouri, Illinois, Maine, Mississippi, and New York City, CAPS is using the career-technical education, or CTE, model to prepare young people for the green jobs of the future before they get out of high school." https://lnkd.in/g2d2Xqfi
This California high school includes sustainability and green jobs in its curriculume
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This renewed trend is so good to see and much-needed. It just goes to show that cultural movements we might have considered dead and buried long ago have a way of returning, new and improved again! Over in our neck of the woods, Tina Zwolinski and her company skillsgapp are creating mobile gaming apps that help students and others discover skills-based careers at an earlier age and transform skills development. “I think the cat’s out of the bag a little bit on traditional college,” says Western Welding Academy CEO Tyler Sasse who dropped out of high school at 16 years old to become a welder. He says during his best year, he made $350,000 in 10 months. “A lot of people are waking up to the fact that the trades are huge and they’ve been huge,” he adds. The trade worker shortage Despite CTE’s recent comeback, the lack of emphasis on it in high schools from the late 1980s to early 2010s has created a gap in skilled workers for industrial trades, according to some industry experts. “What we have in the workforce is a pretty big hole where we didn’t do that training,” says Ed Castile, who runs Alabama Industrial Development Training. “We’re scrambling to get people skilled up in the areas that we need. So every year that we graduate more career-tech-ed students, the better we are.” From April to May, job openings increased in the construction industry, along with the trade, transportation and utilities sectors, even while the overall number of job openings declined, according to the most recent JOLTS report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. To spread the message about the skills gap, Sasse has gone on the road to advertise Western Welding Academy and help strengthen high school CTE programs. He speaks at high schools all over the country to make students aware that four-year colleges are not the only path forward and sometimes donates equipment to high schools rebuilding their CTE curricula. Sasse says that when he first started doing this national tour, about a third of the high schools he visited had some sort of CTE. Now, he says that at least half of the high schools he visits have “a really strong CTE program.” #industrialtrades #manufacturingjobs #talentsearch #careerexploration #techeducation
High school shop class is back—and it's showing students alternatives to 'traditional college'
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Thirty years ago, high school shop class seemed on track for extinction. As school funding became a matter of standardized test scores in reading and math, the budget tightened for classes that taught woodworking and printmaking. From the 1990s to the early 2010s, students took fewer credits in shop class — or as it is now called, Career Tech Education — according to data from the National Center of Education Statistics. Instead, the priority turned toward securing students spots in four-year degree programs. But with more job openings in the trades and more questions around the value of a four-year college degree, high schools are turning their attention back to equipping the next generation with hands-on technical skills.
High school shop class is back—and it's showing students alternatives to 'traditional college'
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I recently wrote about Minuteman High School - an amazing #careerteched #highschool in Lexington, MA - that serves multiple towns in our region. CTE now addresses many career aspirations while still being a crucial source for the trades. In a cruel case of #massachusetts cutting off its nose to spite its face, a planned rebuild of Haverhill, MA-based Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School was voted down this week due to cost concerns. At twice Minuteman's enrollment capacity, Whittier benefited from some economy of scale. Despite that, the estimated Whittier building cost per student is about 55% greater than Minuteman's was just five years ago. Meanwhile, unfilled construction jobs remain near an all-time high. Will the market naturally address the supply-demand cost issue or must something else be done? And, when you compare the communities that Minuteman serves to Whittier's, the #inequity alarm is triggered. And we know the market won't address that. This is a complex problem. We need more CTE seats, experiences, internships, and apprenticeships for students in both CTE and traditional schools - which will also reduce absence rates. Please share some creative solutions. https://lnkd.in/e5XwuZHb #CTE #vocationaleducation
Career Technical Education in high demand
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Repost credit: Construction Executive National Signing Day is when high-school athletes from across the country celebrate their next step in life by signing an official letter of intent to compete in their sport at their dream college or university. This annual tradition is a single day anticipated by thousands of students and their families. Many schools similarly encourage graduating seniors to share what colleges they’ll be studying at in the fall on social media. But what about those students who don’t play sports? What about the ones who aren’t going to college? Over the last few years, high schools and businesses have begun hosting career signing days for students who are pursuing careers in the trades. During these public events, high-school seniors sign an offer letter of employment to work for a construction company right after graduation. To go from simple student to full-time employee takes more than the swoop of a pen, though; it’s a year-long process. #Support #educate #promote #ulanetwork #unionstrong #1u #repost #tradeschool #careersinthetrades
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