David Miyashiro desires to offer again to Pittsburgh — despite the fact that he is by no means lived right here. As superintendent of the Cajon Valley Union Faculty District close to San Diego, California, and in his earlier positions as an educator and faculty chief, he has modified the best way training is practiced — and he believes Pittsburgh is main the best way.
So when the Pittsburgh Expertise Council invited him to ship the keynote handle on the Three Rivers Academic Expertise Convention (referred to as by most TRETC and pronounced TRET-see) on Monday, January 16, Miyashiro jumped on the likelihood to fly to Pittsburgh for convention.
“Pittsburgh college districts have been a part of the inspiration for our ideas,” says Miyashiro. “We now have been working with the Council and the Grable Basis since 2016, once we visited three of the districts in Pittsburgh. [South Fayette, Avonworth and Elizabeth Forward] within the League of Modern Faculties to Rethink Scholar Success.”
He additionally credit Pittsburgh’s Remake Studying for permitting him to be taught “from their playbook.”
Miyashiro seeks to alter public training coverage, an idea he calls “The World of Work.” In World of Work, he’s altering the objectives of training outcomes. Quite than dwelling on check scores, Miyashiro believes the aim needs to be to introduce college students early to ideas that lead to gainful employment and happiness.
In neighborhoods that embrace World of Work ideas, like his in El Cajon, kindergartners are exploring careers; by eighth grade, they have been uncovered to 60 completely different profession choices.
“Youngsters cannot aspire to careers they do not even know exist, like life sciences, civil engineering and public service. The standard Okay-12 system stigmatizes expert labor, army service, public service — something that does not align with a university diploma. We’re attempting to indicate Okay-12 that we have to assume otherwise about success and readiness.”
TRETC is about sharing and studying with pioneers and innovators, which appeals to Miyashiro a lot that he determined to deliver 12 colleagues from California to be taught and share on the occasion.
Based on Marie Pelloni, who organizes the occasion for the Pittsburgh Expertise Council, this 12 months’s TRETC contains greater than 300 educators from 51 completely different college districts in Allegheny and 13 surrounding counties.
Two years in the past, TRETC was deliberately digital attributable to Covid, and final 12 months a giant winter storm satisfied it to go digital once more on the final minute. So that is TRETC’s first face-to-face assembly in three years.
The convention contains 31 classes, seven 90-minute workshops, a scholar presentation competitors, and awards for an educator, an training chief, and a non-profit buddy of training—along with alternatives for educators to community, to to share concepts and be taught from one another.
It’s becoming that TRETC 2023 takes place on the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. Within the phrases of Dr. King, “If you cannot fly, then run, if you cannot run then stroll, if you cannot stroll, crawl, however no matter do, you need to hold transferring ahead.”