Marshall Pre-K became a part of the Private Industry Council’s PA Pre-K Counts family in 2017. Marshall Pre-K is located at Marshall Elementary in the Laurel Highlands School District which is located in Uniontown, Fayette County. In 2021, a second Pre-K classroom was...
Our staff would like to invite everyone to a very exciting event that will be happening at our local PA CareerLink® locations to celebrate National Workforce Development Month. All three sites will be hosting the 3rd Annual Awareness Day event to celebrate what the...
This year we had a safari theme titled “Wild About MMM.” It was a great success with all the families that attended. The day consisted of stations for art and craft activities, movement activities, and eating. Local community representatives were also stationed...
My original intent for this article was to provide parents with information on how to prepare their preschool children for school. You know, practices like establish routines, talk with your children about what the day will look like, and validate their feelings and...
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Head Start / Early Head Start FAQs The Private Industry Council discusses frequently asked questions for Head Start and Early Head Start students. Private Industry Council operates the Head Start / Early Head Start program for Beaver and Fayette Counties in the...
The one true maxim in education is that the profession is always changing. With change come challenges but also the opportunity for great accomplishment. As K-12 educators prepare for the implementation of the Common Core Standards, Adult Education is being introduced to a portion of the standards that the Federal Department of Education thinks are most beneficial to Adult Education learners. This set of standards is known as the College and Career Readiness Standards, or CCRS. The CCRS is going to have a great amount of influence on all Adult Education programs across the nation.
These standards will focus on the skills and content that employers and post-secondary institutions have identified as critical to a person’s future success. As Adult Education providers, PIC will be held accountable by the state to make sure that these new standards are being implemented throughout our classes. The skills that have been identified as the greatest need for adult education are: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language, and Mathematics (Numbers and Operations, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Geometry, and Measurement and Data). These sets of standards are going to bring a level of content consistency to all of our classrooms, plus provide rigor that will translate into better results for all of our adult learners. Our program is excited to begin the process of “unpacking” these standards and creating fun, informative, and challenging classroom activities to coincide with these standards.
The changes that are coming to Adult Education will allow us as instructors and administrators the chance to have ownership over what we teach and how we choose to teach content in our classrooms. Benefits will include:
We look forward to what this process will mean to our profession, but most importantly our students.
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