Education Alliances

TEducation Alliances

Workforce Alliance partners with educators to assure that curricula match the needs of today’s employers. Many of the training programs that are accessed through the CTWorks Career Centers are offered by our education partners, especially Middlesex and Gateway Community Colleges. Customized training programs are specifically designed for industry sectors such as retail and healthcare.

Our work with the Regional Career & Tech Ed roundtable helps us reach middle and high school students throughout the region. This partnership allows us to reach into the schools with messages about skills and jobs, while also connecting the teachers with the front line of workforce development. Workforce Alliance works to increase the number of Career & Tech Ed teachers in the state through public policy initiatives.

STEM Skills

Workforce Alliance participated in a statewide pilot project aimed at increasing student, teacher and parent awareness of occupations that require STEM Skills. Ten teachers took part in the first round of STEM Experts in School, working at companies throughout Connecticut. Partners in the project include: Workforce Alliance, Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES)/Thomas Edison Middle School, New Haven Board of Education (NHBOE) CT Scholars Academy.

Planning is underway to expand the STEM Skills projects in coming years. CT Scholars has already developed enhancements that are in place for the fall semester.

Links

CT Department of Education http://www.state.ct.us/sde/

CT Department of Adult Education http://www.state.ct.us/sde/deps/Adult/index.htm

Public School Addresses www.csde.state.ct.us/public/csde/reports/reportsection.asp

School District Addresses www.csde.state.ct.us/public/csde/reports/reportsection.asp

Gateway Community College www.gwcc.commnet.edu

Middlesex Community College www.mxcc.commnet.edu

Housatonic Community College www.hcc.commnet.edu

Southern Connecticut State University www.southernct.edu

University of Connecticut at Storrs www.uconn.edu

Board of Governors for Higher Education/ Department of Higher Education www.ctdhe.org

Albertus Magnus College www.albertus.edu

Quinnipiac University www.quinnipiac.edu

University of New Haven www.newhaven.edu

Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu

Yale University www.yale.edu