Professional Development Webinar Series
Teaching to Diverse Learners
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February 7, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Diversity of Career College Students: Educating Different Types of Learners
Teachers today need to possess the skills necessary to provide a successful learning
environment to all students. In addition, teachers, as well as administration and staff, should promote an inclusive classroom. The goal of this will be to identify the diverse student population that makes up a class. Through this, teachers can determine appropriate ways to teach to the diverse-learner set, as well as properly utilize the student diversity to enhance the learning process.
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April 4, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Teaching to Different Learning Styles
Understanding how students learn is paramount to success as an educator and an institution. This can help support certain types of teaching strategies, as well as give an understanding of why some students struggle and others succeed, when being presented the same material in the same format. To understand this phenomenon we must differentiate between learning theories and learning preferences. Throughout this Webinar, we will explore the differences between learning theories and learner preferences and how to effectively incorporate concepts, from both of these, into the classroom to meet the needs of all learners.
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Continuing Education Certificate:
Attendees will receive a Continuing Education Certificate for each of the one-hour educational webinars.
Fees:
Members - $39.00 per webinar
Non Members - $79.00 per webinar
Registration:
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NEPCSA is Looking for Volunteers!
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NEPCSA is your link to the private career school industry in New England. You can get even more from your investment in NEPCSA if you volunteer to serve on a committee.
The NEPCSA Board is seeking volunteers to join the Education Committee to expand and improve the association's educational programs.
Education Committee
The NEPCSA Education Committee is responsible for determining the membership’s educational needs and implementing programs to meet those specific needs.
The Education Committee also plans the NEPCSA Annual Conference, which features numerous educational workshops and exhibits, as well as networking and constructive interaction with public officials, vendors, faculty, school owners and administrators.
Government Affairs Committee
The NEPCSA Government Affairs Committees are responsible for representing and protecting the private career school's legislative interests.
The NEPCSA Government Affairs Committees monitor the regulatory process, and acts on legislation that can impact the private career school sector. NEPCSA's goal is to create a legislative committee in each of the six New England states. Right now NEPCSA is soliciting volunteers for the Connecticut and Massachusetts Legislative Committees.
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You may volunteer to serve yourself, or you can nominate someone else to serve. Each committee determines how often and where they meet. The Committee Flyer outlines the duties and responsibilities for each committee.
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Massachusetts Department of Professional Licensure (DPL) Issues New Policies
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The Massachusetts Division of Professional Licensure has issued an updated policy on progress reports.
For more information, please contact:
Clinton Dick, Executive Director
Office of Private Occupational School Education
Division of Professional Licensure
1000 Washington Street, Suite 710
Boston, MA 02118-6100
617.727.5970 (phone)
617.727.9932 (fax)
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Career Education Colleges & Universities News (CECU)
December 1, 2017 – Arlington, Va. – Career Education Colleges and Universities (CECU) praised Chairwoman Virginia Foxx on the introduction of a proposal to reauthorize the Higher Education Act as a victory for students of all backgrounds by directly connecting the Act with jobs and career training.
“This proposal offers important reforms that emphasize good jobs and quality careers for our nation’s students,” said Steve Gunderson, president and CEO of CECU. “The Higher Education Act has become our nation’s workforce investment strategy. It is imperative to update in ways that produce future skilled workers enhancing U.S. competitiveness, and ultimately, our nation’s economy.”
By 2024, according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics
, the United States will need 46.5 million new workers to fill new jobs and replace scores of retirees. In this same time period, 65 percent of all replacement jobs and 85 percent of all new jobs will require some level of postsecondary education. Education that results in skilled workers leads to job growth. The debate between liberal and vocational education is a false choice. We need both, and this proposal seeks to achieve that goal.
CECU convened a task force of over 70 education leaders throughout postsecondary education, and earlier this year unveiled a set of over 40 recommendations to improve and modernize the HEA in the 115th Congress.
Massachusetts News
Student Tuition Recovery Fund
MASSACHUSETTS – S112 – An Act Establishing a Student Tuition Recovery Fund
Sponsor: Senator Eileen Donoghue (D)
MASSACHUSETTS – H627– An Act Establishing a Student Tuition Recovery Fund
Sponsor: Rep. Jennifer Benson (D)
Legislation has been filed in Massachusetts to create a Student Recovery Fund. This legislation would establish a student tuition recovery fund in Massachusetts. If passed, the legislation would:
- Require that private career schools make an initial payment of $2,500 into the fund;
- Pay 0.25 percent of the school’s gross tuition and fees received by the school during the prior year in the second year; and
- Pay an amount determined by the attorney general, not to exceed 0.5 percent of a school’s gross tuition and fees received by the school during the prior year.
If you are concerned or opposed to the creation of a Massachusetts Student Recovery Fund, please send a letter to your own legislators, and to the members of the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.
Click here
to view the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure contact list.
Click here
to view NEPCSA's testimony (this can be helpful when writing your own letter to your legislators).
Connecticut News
During 2017, H.B. No. 7120 passed and is now
Public Act No. 17-139
. This law changes the definition of a private occupational school, extends the financial reporting requirements for barbering and hairdressing schools, requires all schools to maintain duplicate academic transcripts files, and establishes a deadline for tuition refunds after a school closes.
Moving into 2018, NEPCSA will monitor legislative initiatives with the creation of a Connecticut Legislative Committee. If you are interested in protecting private career school interests in Connecticut, please contact
Cathy Flaherty
. We welcome and encourage your participation.
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New MaxKnowledge Course!
Teaching Students with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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This course covers what PTSD is and the characteristics that students with PTSD may display. In addition, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is discussed as many students enrolling in post-secondary settings have both PTSD and TBI. Instructional strategies to support the learning of students with PTSD and/or TBI will be discussed and examples given. Participants will also be given sources where they can gain additional insight into how to support the learning of students with PTSD and/or TBI.
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New England Tractor Trailer Training School of CT (Somers)
32 Field Road
Somers, CT 06071
Phone: (860) 749-0711
Fax: 860-749-4471
Carl Stebbins
New England Tractor Trailer Training School of CT (Bridgeport)
500 Barnum Ave
Bridgeport, CT 06608
Phone: (203) 368-9069
Matt Wrobel
Lincoln Technical Institute (RI)
622 George Washington Highway
Lincoln, RI 02865
Phone: (401) 334-2430
Marie Acker
Spa Tech Institute (Ipswich)
126 High Street
Ipswich, MA 01938
Phone: (978) 356-0414
Fax: (978) 356-8948
Gia Stillman
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Spa Tech Institute (Plymouth)
59 Industrial Park Road, Suite 2400
Plymouth, MA 02362
Phone: (508) 747-3130
Fax: (508) 747-2923
Jon Schmaling
Spa Tech Institute (Westbrook)
100 Larrabee Road
Westbrook, ME 04092
Phone: (207) 591-4141
Fax: (207) 591-4460
Peggy York
Spa Tech Institute (Westboro)
227 Turnpike Road., Suite 1
Westborough, MA 01581
Phone: (508) 366-8425
Fax: (508) 366-8425
Jon Schmaling
Universal Technical Institute
1 Upland Road Bld 200
Norwood, MA 02062
Phone: (781) 948-2000
Fax: (781) 948-2001
Shawn Alexander
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Welcome our Newest Board Member!
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Lincoln Technical Institute, Rhode Island
622 George Washington Highway
Lincoln, RI 02865
Phone: (401) 334-2430
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Marie G. Acker has been working in career and technical education for over 20 years. She has held senior leadership positions within a variety of different school groups which were all accredited through ACICS. She has managed her current institution for over 2 years and was directly involved with acquiring programmatic accreditation for the nursing program with Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) in the spring of 2016.
Her previous roles included corporate over-site of 11 locations within Lincoln Educational Services and 7 locations with other organizations. In addition to the corporate over-site she has managed single site and regional locations since 1995.
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NEPCSA Board of Directors
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Jim Bologa
NEPCSA President
Porter and Chester Institute (Rocky Hill)
30 Waterchase Drive
Rocky Hill, CT 06067
Phone: (860) 529-2519
Donald Lane
NEPCSA Vice President
NETTTS (Andover)
1600 Osgood Street
North Andover, MA 01845
Phone: (978) 965-2969
Linda Lord
NEPCSA Secretary/Treasurer
Bay State School Of Technology
225 Turnpike Street
Canton, MA 02021
Phone: (781) 828-3434
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Michelle McCarthy
Lincoln Technical Institute (Somerville)
5 Middlesex Ave.
Somerville, MA 02145
Phone: (617) 776-3500
James Reardon
The Peterson School (Woburn)
25 Montvale Avenue
Woburn, MA 01801
Phone: (781) 938-5656
Bo Sherman
Pearson
501 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: (800) 635-1579
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Join Us on Facebook!
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How to join the NEPCSA Facebook group:
- Sign into Facebook
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- Click "like" on the top left of the page.
You can also find our page by clicking
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NEPCSA
11 Robert Toner Blvd., # 234
North Attleboro, MA 02763
Phone: 508-695-3919
Fax: 508-232-6005
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