Friends of Vocational Technical Education,
We are pleased to announce that the recent outstanding webinar, “Vocational Technical Schools and Urban Education Reform” is available for viewing at your convenience!!
It features outstanding dialog from Heidi Riccio, Kevin McCaskill, and Warley Williams. They offer remarkable insights on urban education based upon personal experience.
Hope you take the time to view this piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aANWPGte0j0
We have also included below opening remarks, from Jamie Gass at Pioneer Institute, where he states:
“In medicine, doctors and nurses alike take the Hippocratic Oath. Its message is known to everyone: “First, do no harm.”
“Politicians and other critics of our voc-tech schools – trying to tinker with the admissions policies and undermine successful school-based autonomies – should remember this ancient wisdom when prescribing ill-considered policy remedies.”
We ask that you consider sharing this with your faculty.
David
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Voc-Tech Schools & Urban Education Reform
Pioneer’s book Hands-On Achievement: Massachusetts’s National Model Vocational-Technical Schools demonstrated that our Commonwealth is the nation’s leader in vocational-technical schooling. And yet, the state’s urban high schools continue to have deep pockets of chronic underperformance among poor and minority students. We invite you to join Pioneer and the Massachusetts Association of Vocational Administrators (MAVA) for a webinar Thursday, February 8th from 2-3PM on the nexus between the Bay State’s excellent voc-tech schools, urban education, and the recent policy debates about voc-tech admissions policies.
Join an expert panel including Warley Williams, Heidi Riccio, & Kevin McCaskill!
AGENDA:
· Introductory Remarks by Jamie Gass (5 minutes)
· Moderated panel by MAVA’s David Ferreira with (40 minutes) panelists:
Warley Williams, Principal at Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical and extensive administrative experience in middle and high school urban education in the New Bedford Public School System.
Dr. Heidi Riccio, Superintendent-Director of Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical School and former Principal/ Director of Career and Technical Education at Medford Vocational-Technical High School.
Kevin McCaskill, former Executive Director of Madison Park Technical Vocational High School (Boston), Putnam Vocational High School (Springfield), and current Principal at Brockton High School.
During the Q&A, audience members will submit their questions via the chat box on Zoom.
· Closing Remarks by Jamie Gass (1-2 minutes)
David J. Ferreira
MAVA Communications Coordinator
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