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

Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, From the Milford Daily News. David Vocational school leaders push back against calls for lottery-based admissions Tom Benoit The Milford Daily News Published 6:05 a.m. ET Jan. 24, 2024 Local technical and vocational school administrators are pushing back against accusations that their admissions policies are discriminatory, and that … Read more

Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, I trust you recall that on January 14th a small-plane crash occurred in western Massachusetts resulting in the death of all three aboard. The death of Fredrika Ballard, who served on the Aviation Advisory Board at Westfield Technical Academy, had a profound impact on the staff and students … Read more

JUST A QUICK REMINDER Registration Open for Spring Courses Colleagues, We are most pleased to share this email from Mario Sousa MAVA’s OSHA/Safety Coordinator. Please share this with all of your vocational technical & agricultural instructors!!! David To: All CTE Educators From: MAVA Safety Office Subject: OSHA Course Registration Registration NOW open for Spring Courses … Read more

Colleagues, We are excited to share this news from Northeast Metro Tech in Wakefield. A 2003 graduate of the school, who now works in Facilities Management and Operations at Boston University, won first place in both plumbing and heating/ventilation/air conditioning at the Elites Trade Championship Series held in Tampa, Florida. Craig Childress won $50,000 in … Read more

Colleagues, From this morning’s Boston Globe. We thank Jamie Gass for bringing this to our attention. David Debate swirls on Beacon Hill over proposal to admit students to vocational schools by lottery By James Vaznis Globe Staff,Updated January 22, 2024, 46 minutes ago 9 Freshman Luke Miarecki of Upton, center, gets advice from junior Ella … Read more

MAVA members, We are pleased to share this update from Brian Cummings, Executive Director of MassCTE. Please share this letter with your instructors. This newsletter includes: Ad Book Cover Design Contest "Best In Show" Contest ‘Most Creative’ Award 2024 MassCTE Annual Conference being held April 5th & 6th, 2024, at the Renaissance Hotel, Patriot Place, … Read more

Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, From this morning’s Boston Globe. David OPINION Admissions lotteries would harm vocational-technical schools Expanding the number of seats must be done in a way that promotes equity without endangering the academic and occupational excellence that drives burgeoning demand for these schools. By Charles Chieppo and Jamie Gass. The … Read more

Oct Colleagues, We are always excited to share interesting ideas and activities that have proven successful in one or more of our MAVA schools. Today we are pleased to share an idea from our colleagues at Bristol-Plymouth Regional Tech in Taunton. Last month first-year students participated in the 16th Annual Career Showcase to learn more … Read more

Colleagues, In honor of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday on Monday, January 15th, Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech released a remarkable podcast created by one of its Media Technology students, Ryan Wilder. It is truly extremely well done, and we encourage you to listen to the work of Ryan and some of his classmates. … Read more

Colleagues, We are pleased to share this good news from Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical School in Franklin!! We thank Ross Blacker, Public Relations and Events Coordinator for sharing this with us. David Congressman and State Representative Pay a Visit to Tri-County Recntly, Congressman Jake Auchincloss and State Representative Jeff Roy paid a visit to Tri-County … Read more

Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, A student at Nashoba Valley Technical High School, where she’s taken part in the school’s Health Assisting program, put a life-saving lesson to good use when she stepped in to aid a person choking. We are most proud and thankful to Emily Durkin. David Teen snaps into action, … Read more

Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education, From this morning’s Boston Globe. One-size-fits-all admissions lottery is not the answer We were deeply disappointed to read your editorial supporting a lottery for vocational school admissions, and we take issue with your argument. We are proud that student enrollment in Massachusetts’ vocational-technical schools mirrors the demographics of … Read more