N.J.’s Vocational-Technical Graduates Step Onto Front Lines of COVID-19 Battle (ROI-NJ: Career Classroom)

by Career Tech | May 28, 2020 | Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools

Read this article as it initially appeared on May 26, 2020 on ROI-NJ. For the last two months, the graduates of New Jersey’s vocational and technical high schools have been on the front lines in the battle against COVID-19, saluted by their communities as health care...

Getting creative — forced to teach from home, vocational-technical instructors adapt (ROI-NJ: Career Classroom)

by Career Tech | May 11, 2020 | Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools

Read this article as it originally appeared May 11, 2020 on ROI-NJ.com. When the state ordered schools to close in March in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, teachers across New Jersey quickly made the transition to remote instruction. But for...

Doing their part — Vocational schools’ teachers, students use skills, equipment, supplies to help in fight against COVID-19 (ROI-NJ)

by Career Tech | Apr 3, 2020 | Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools

Read this article as it originally appeared in ROI-NJ. New Jersey’s county technical-vocational schools are contributing to the effort to ensure those on the front lines battling COVID-19 have the protective equipment they need. Vocational schools in nearly every...

Morris County partnership lets high school students experience vast array of health care careers (ROI-NJ)

by Career Tech | Mar 20, 2020 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools

Read this article as it originally appeared March 6, 2020 on ROI-NJ. By middle school, Ferouz Albukhari knew she wanted a career in the medical field. As an eighth grader, she applied to the Academy for Health Care Sciences run by the Morris County Vocational School...

Accelerating education: Middlesex vo-tech student jump-starts career with Jaguar Land Rover (ROI-NJ)

by Career Tech | Jan 28, 2020 | Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools

Read this article as it originally appeared Jan. 21, 2020 on ROI-NJ. After Rafael Miranda graduated from the auto program at Middlesex County Vocational Technical School in Perth Amboy, he landed a job working at an independent repair shop. Not long after, he got a...

Local 825’s Lalevee says automation isn’t killing union jobs, it’s changing them (ROI-NJ)

by Career Tech | Jan 17, 2020 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement

Read this article as it originally appeared Jan. 16, 2020 on ROI-NJ. Training the Next Generation: Vo-Tech’s Evolution as Your Workforce Solution Greg Lalevee remembers the silence. Yes, he remembers the reaction he got when he would tell members of the International...