MAVA Colleagues, As you are aware, registration is OPEN for the 2024 91st Annual MassCTE Conference, Leadership, & Awards Banquet, to be held at the Renaissance Boston Hotel at Patriot Place 28 Patriot Place – Foxborough, MA April 5th & April 6th, 2024!! <![if !vml]><![endif]>Last year nearly 40 vocational technical teachers were in attendance for … Read more

MAVA Colleagues, We are very pleased to share this wonderful news from Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical School. This grant is being used to provide “Math Acceleration” to Grades 9 and 10 students during the February & Spring vacation weeks. Superintendent-Director Heidi Riccio stated, “We continue to focus on deeper learning that involves student … Read more

Colleagues, For your reference, we are pleased to share results of a survey of 1,000 parents and 500 high school teachers and counselors during last summer. One of the finds was: " Eighty-seven percent of parents said they thought their children would have some interest in learning more about microcredentials, and they said the most … Read more

Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, Chapter 74 High Quality Vocational Technical students throughout the state are gearing up for a culinary arts competition that could land them scholarships and a chance to compete with other young chefs across the country!! Our terrific young chefs will come from the following schools: Blackstone Valley Regional … Read more

Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, We are truly excited to share some wonderful news from our friend and longtime colleague Fred Savoie. Many of you know that for a number of years Fred has been writing a book dedicated to the incredible history and success of vocational technical and agricultural education in the … Read more

Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, Over 600 people attended the 43rd annual Fitchburg East Rotary Club Big Game Brunch on the morning of Super Bowl Sunday to support their cause. Students from Fitchburg High School and Montachusett Regional Technical Vocational High School helped cook and serve the food alongside many Rotarians and other … Read more

MAVA Colleagues, The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education just released this press release. We thank Ernest F. Houle, Superintendent-Director at Assabet Valley for sharing this with us. David Commissioner Riley to Step Down in March A message from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education February 15, 2024 View this email in … Read more

Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, In the event you did not see this in today’s Boston Globe, below are three letters sent to the editorial board David LETTERS Lottery admissions would leave many voc-tech hopefuls in the cold Updated February 15, 2024, 2:30 a.m. 5Freshman Bryce Wheeler of Grafton worked on the roof … Read more

Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, Nashoba Tech has received a $48,500 grant from the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to facilitate a partnership among the language departments of six vocational-technical schools! Amy St. Arnaud, a Spanish teacher at Nashoba Tech, will lead the effort, which also includes Essex North Shore Agricultural … Read more

<![if !vml]><![endif]>Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, We are most excited to share with you a truly remarkable piece featured on Channel 5 ABC Boston today in celebration of Valentine’s Day! Serenity Jackson, a freshman at Worcester Technical High School majoring in Allied Health, Worcester’s Youth Poet Laureate, has composed a special love poem … Read more

Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, We are most excited to share this outstanding piece highlighting Somerville High School which offers 14 High Quality Chapter 74 programs career pathways within a comprehensive high school setting for students enrolled in their Career and Technical Education (CTE) program. Quoting Assistant Principal and Director of CTE James … Read more

Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, Very interesting piece from the Contrarian Boston yesterday. Please take a moment to read this piece written by David Mancuso, President of Mancuso Communication Strategies. “trade-based apprenticeships have standards for students like a command of math and reading skills, a commitment to attendance, and a positive discipline record … Read more

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 … Read more

Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, Interesting read…from “K-12 Dive”. Referred to as the “the exposure gap”!! If only there were hands-on opportunities for students to “explore” careers and then be immersed in a career pathway!!! Novel approach????? Sounds like the solution may be expanding access to and additional seats in High Quality Chapter … Read more

MAVA Colleagues, It is our pleasure to inform you that registration is open for the 91st Annual MassCTE Conference, Leadership, & Awards Banquet in Foxborough. We know many of you are planning to attend. Should be a wonderful event! The Saturday Evening Banquet is always a highlight of the conference, and we hope you will … Read more

Colleagues, Students in the Culinary Arts program at Blue Hills Regional Technical School won the 2024 Massachusetts SkillsUSA MRE Challenge! David Blue Hills Regional Technical School Culinary Program Wins First Place in SkillsUSA MRE Challenge February 7, 2024 Hannah Sammut Client News Students Ian Kreger, Ayianna Rosa and Nafisatu Apatira craft their dish at the … Read more

MAVA Colleagues, The 2024 MAVA Connecting for Success Conference Team has extended the deadline to Friday March 1, 2024 for proposals for professional development sessions. Please share this with your professional staff!! Share your expertise with the MAVA Community! David   Greetings Colleagues: We are 139 days away from the 2024 Connecting for Success Conference! … Read more

Friends of vocational technical & agricultural education, Please support the efforts of MAVA & the Pioneer Institute by registering for Thursday’s 2:00pm webinar. All of the details concerning the webinar are listed below. This is the simple registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Cyg2K0JRmy1ZUIOAOsYag#/registration Looking forward to having you with us. Any questions please reach me at davidferreira. David … Read more

, 2021 General Membership Meeting & Dinner “CTE where STEM Goes to Work” MAVA Colleagues, We are pleased to share this announcement that registration remains open for our Spring 2024 MAVA General Membership Meeting scheduled on Thursday, March 14, 2024, at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel, 181 Boston Post Road W, Marlborough, MA 01752. … Read more

Join us Thursday at 2:00pm for Pioneer & MAVA’s Webinar……. “Vocational Technical Schools and Urban Education Reform”!!! 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 … Read more

O Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, Vocational technical and agricultural administrators are pushing back against accusations that their admissions policies are discriminatory, and that they should instead be made lottery based. Vocational school administrators such as Essex Tech superintendent Dr. Heidi Riccio, say school resources would be better spent trying to find new … Read more

MAVA members, We are pleased to share this update from Brian Cummings, Executive Director of MassCTE. Please share this information with your faculty. Ad Book Cover Design Contest deadline for submissions has been extended through Friday, February 16th! The MassCTE Awards – All submissions are in the process of being reviewed and voting is underway. … Read more

MAVA Members, Please be reminded that the month of February is celebrated annually as CTE Month. Career and Technical Education Month® is a public awareness campaign, hosted by ACTE and sponsored by National Association of Home Builders, that takes place each February to celebrate CTE, the accomplishments of CTE programs and the importance of CTE … Read more

Oct Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, Vocational technical and agricultural administrators are pushing back against accusations that their admissions policies are discriminatory, and that they should instead be made lottery based. But school administrators say a lottery-based admissions system would take seats away from students who benefit most from vocational technical & agricultural … Read more

Colleagues, We are pleased to share this exciting collaboration between a vocational technical school’s Carpentry Department and Dartmouth’s Pathways Committee who oversaw the completion of the Heritage Trail. “The students from GNB Vocational Technical did a marvelous job building and installing these two new kiosks,” Andrew Langhauser, project manager with the Dartmouth Pathways Committee, said … Read more