NEW ORLEANS – One-hundred educators from the United States and Europe in attendance at the Association of Career and Technical Education (ACTE) National Conference held in New Orleans, Thursday, November 19 through Sunday, November 22, 2015, will visit three Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) schools on Thursday, November 19, from 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Tour participants will observe OPSB’s pathways program that provides the latest development in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education fields to students in grades 7th through 12th, as well as in higher education.
Tours will be held at Warren Easton Charter High School, 3019 Canal St., to review its STEM Lab and McDonogh 35 Senior High School’s pre-engineering industrial processes and STEM National Academy Foundation curriculum, at 4000 Cadillac St., as well as Nunez Community College, 3710 Paris Rd. in Chalmette, LA, where students are enrolled in an associate’s degree program in applied science.
OPSB, Nunez Community College and the New Orleans Saints have provided items for ACTE National Conference attendees to keep the New Orleans spirit alive nationwide.
