CRTC Compass Magazine

  CRTC Recruitment: Reinventing The Way We Connect to Students and Families, With Your Help We’re currently on a mission to recruit 450 freshman and sophomore students into one of the CRTC’s 11 Career Pathway programs and we need some help. During a traditional recruitment season, we reach out to students from our nine sending high schools through large assemblies, classroom visitations and open house nights. COVID restrictions, however, have boxed us into a remote environment, limiting our outreach and restricting our ability to give students an up-close look at the college and career development advantages we offer.  Over the decade from 2009-2019 our enrollment jumped 36% (while regional high school enrollment decreased by 17%), so experience tells us that there is a large pool of students out there who crave the kind of career-focused education we provide - our problem is reaching them with our message. And here’s where you can help. As part of our recruitment process, we select s

  CRTC Health Science Students Begin LNA and EMT Training CRTC Health Science students have begun training that will prepare them to join the front lines of NH’s fight against the COVID outbreak. Forty-nine students are working toward License Nursing Assistant (LNA) and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) certification, which would make them available to help fill the gap left by the 1,000 LNA positions lost over the past two years, according to NH Board of Nursing data. Last week Governor Sununu issued an emergency order permitting EMTs, military members with medical training, and others with healthcare training to apply for temporary licenses to assist in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities in the state. “New Hampshire has declared that EMTs and LNAs are essential jobs, as the state is in need of trained healthcare professionals,” said CRTC Director Steve Rothenberg. “This certification training allows students to complete the classroom hours and training required to sit

  From the Director’s Desk “ When I started high school I was scared about what I was going to do with my life, and now here I am applying to colleges, making connections and stepping into my future. Coming to the CRTC was the best decision I’ve made in high school .” Concord High School senior Olivia Anderson recently made those remarks when talking about her CRTC Emergency Services program experience. Her comment is typical of many I hear from students who have connected to their career interests and ambitions through the CRTC. Due to the current COVID restrictions, however, connecting to a new crop of freshman and sophomore students from our nine sending high schools has proven to be a challenging task, and one that we’re hoping you can help us with. This is the time of year when we typically hold large CRTC recruitment assemblies and arrange for program tours and classroom visits. Our goal each year is to recruit about 450 students to apply to one of our 11 Career Pathway programs.

  Meet Our Teachers:  Gail Beaudoin, Criminal Justice CRTC programs are a blend of rigorous academics and applied learning that provide students with the opportunity to explore their interests, talents and career ambitions. The lynchpin in these programs is the unique character of the CRTC teacher, who typically has years of industry experience before making the transition to the classroom.  The CRTC Criminal Justice teacher, Gail Beaudoin, has over three decades of law enforcement experience, including 11 years as a Criminal Bureau detective, and was the first female in the Chelmsford, MA, Police Department to attain the rank of Lieutenant. She holds a master’s degree in Criminal Justice from UMass, and spent 15 years as an adjunct professor in Criminal Justice at UMass, Lowell. Learn a little more about our Criminal Justice teacher by reading this month’s CRTC Teacher Q & A . How long have you been a Career and Technical Education teacher? I’ve been teaching Criminal Justice at t

  CRTC Snapshots: Harbor Freight Tools Donates Tool Kits To Auto Program CRTC Automotive Technology Year II students are able to engage in hands-on lessons in Ohm’s Law from home thanks to the generous donation of electrical boards and toolkits from Harbor Freight Tools. Auto Tech teacher Scott Mayotte, who is a Harbor Freight advisor teacher, said that the toolkits allowed students to continue with experiential learning while the CRTC went fully remote for the first two weeks of January. “Thank you so much for the wonderful gift,” said Lisa English, who’s son, Alden, is a senior in the Automotive program. “It helps to make their virtual lessons truly hands on!” Click Here to learn more about the CRTC Automotive Technology program.  Classroom Technology Upgrades Improve Remote Learning Experience Construction Trades teacher John Hubbard is one of the CRTC teachers testing out a new remote learning camera and audio set up called Aver 520C Pro, which helps to provide increased functional

  Meeting the COVID Challenge: Education & Behavioral Science Students Find New Opportunities in Remote ELOs COVID-19 has impacted many classroom protocols and procedures, making this both an unusual and unpredictable school year for students and teachers alike. While the CRTC has remained open for on-site learning throughout most of the first half of the school year, program teachers have been challenged to find ways to provide students with career-focused, extended learning opportunities (ELOs) that safely connect them with industry professionals and workplaces. Val Koch has been teaching the CRTC Education and Behavioral Science program (formerly Teacher Preparation) for 20 years. EBS students typically spend much of their program time working in the CRTC pre-school lab classroom or as student interns in elementary, middle or high school classrooms under the guidance of teacher mentors. For most students, these experiences are the highlight of their EBS program. “One of the bigg

  For These Three Students, CRTC is a Family Affair Jack, Tommy and Peter Sargent have three things in common: they are brothers, they’re each enrolled in the CRTC Emergency Services program, and they all share the same birth date. “We grew up listening to stories about our grandfather’s and great-grandfather’s experiences in the New York City Fire Department,” said Peter Sargent, who is three minutes younger than brother Jack and two minutes younger than Tommy. “Those stories got me interested in this career field, but once I got into the CRTC Emergency Services program and hit those ride-alongs, it really became infectious.” All three brothers are Concord High School seniors, and all are members of the CHS wrestling and football teams (Jack and Peter are co-captains of the wrestling team). Peter has completed Year II of the Emergency Services program, and currently is participating in the CRTC+ program, where he’ll be entering the NH Fire Academy to earn his Firefighter I Certificate