February Newsletter
EmPower Women's Leadership Conference
Celebrating International Women's Week!
EmPower Women’s Leadership Conference brings together women in trades careers to celebrate their success as leaders, inspire other women to find and embrace their inner leader, and showcase the possibilities when women succeed in breaking barriers. Hear from industry leaders, current apprentices.
A Free Virtual Event! (with Registration)
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Celebrate CTE Month with a Virtual Event!
Use the FREE Future Skills Toolkit to promote CTE and Career Clusters
In early February, students choose which programs they want to take for the following year. We are providing a FREE virtual event toolkit, called Future Skills to provide you with high-impact media and tools to celebrate #CTEMonth and encourage students to enroll in CTE programs.
CONSTRUCTION EDUCATORS WORKSHOP
March 29, 2022 8:00-2:00pm
Discuss and Review Practices of Engineering · Design, Delivery and Installation · Changing and New Construction Technologies · Interactive Projects to bring back to your class The world of construction is constantly evolving.
Women in Construction
Top U.S. cities for women in construction
A recent breakdown of census data shows the areas with the highest share of women construction workers and their annual salaries.
Greater Seattle area is listed as #2 in the nation.
The construction industry's off-putting treatment of women is making its labor shortage worse.
Kelly Kupcak, Oregon Tradeswomen's executive director, pointed out that women are more likely to be in poverty, citing 2019 data from the National Women's Law Center. "If we don't provide not only career opportunities for women to work in high-wage jobs – many of which are blue collar — but necessary supports," she told Insider, "we will continue to see women segregated into 'pink collar' jobs that perpetuate a cycle of marginalization and economic
Certificate: eLearning Design and Development
Starts Jan. 19, 2022
Empowering faculty with updated strategies and tools to meet the needs of our diverse learners.
Revised and updated to support teaching in the Pandemic: Four focused online courses that include COVID considerations and equity concerns.
Contact coordinator Liz Falconer Ph.D., lfalconer@rtc.edu
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