January 24, 2020 | 11:00 am
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Robin Dewey, Program Coordinator, Labor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley

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Career technical education is often the hook that reengages at-promise students.  Such programs offer the opportunity to develop essential occupational safety and health skills that have a powerful impact on a student’s future.  These skills provide students not only with employability skills, but can infuse critical leadership skills as well.  Join Robin Dewey, of UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program, for an exploration of available UC Berkeley-developed curriculum and participatory learning activities that can empower and change the trajectory of your students in career technical education pathways.

Learn about available curriculum, teaching materials, and classroom videos designed to meet existing work-based learning program requirements for teaching health and safety principles.  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has developed free and engaging curriculum that helps teachers and community-based job placement staff educate students about the basics of job safety and health.  The curriculum presents essential information and career-readiness skills through a focus on eight core competencies.  The transferable skills gained will empower students with leadership and self-advocacy skills that will be relevant throughout their careers.

Join RAPSA and Robin Dewey in an exploration of how career ready health and safety skills provide enhanced leadership skills so that students learn to:

• Think critically and problem solve;
• Communicate and collaborate;
• Be creative and innovative; and
• Understand the development of public policy.

RAPSA is proud to get begin it’s 2020 Reaching At Promise Students webinar series with this January 24^th, Empowering At-Promise Students webinar at 11 am Pacific.  Sign up now to be part of the conversation!

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Save the Date for RAPSA’s February 28^th Webinar with Dr. Victor Rios, Associate Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.   He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley in 2005.  Using his personal experience of dropping out of school and being incarcerated as a juvenile—along with his research findings— Professor Rios works with schools to promote emotional support, anti-racism, and social justice literacy among educators.   Join Dr. Rios for insights on developing  interventions for marginalized students that promote personal transformation and civic engagement.  He has recently published his sixth book, My Teacher Believes in Me: The Educator’s Guide to At-Promise Students.