Participants (from left) Alison Richardson of the Graduate Center, CUNY; Amanda Paul of Francis Lewis HS in Queens; Natalie McPherson of Urban Assembly School for Collaborative Healthcare in Brooklyn; and Stephen Faucette, an ATR currently at City As School in Manhattan, work on a problem in the workshop titled What Does a 21st Century CTE Sequence Look Like?

UFT Vice President for Career and Technical Education High Schools Sterling Roberson (second from right) speaks with members (from left) Arlene Ramos of the HS for Health Professions in Manhattan, Maria Annabella Espinosa of the HS of Enterprise, Business and Technology in Brooklyn, Assistant Principal Carolyn Peterson of Coop Tech in Manhattan and Dr. Bruce Levinson, the work-based learning coordinator at the HS of Health Professions and Human Services in Manhattan.

John Tebbett (right), a Cisco networking teacher at Chelsea CTE HS, works with John Rullan, the assistant principal at Coop Tech, during the Integrating Employability Skills workshop.

Discussing matters in the Right Mix for the Future workshop are Brett McCall (right), a digital media teacher at Maxwell CTE HS in Brooklyn; Brian Stefanelli (left), who teaches Web design at New Dorp HS on Staten Island; and Anthony Passalacqua, a video production teacher at New Dorp.

In the Integrating Employability Skills workshop, Isabella Nieznalski, a graphic design teacher at Chelsea CTE HS, talks with Junior Manon of the Department of Education’s Career Counseling Initiative.

UFT members (from left) Amrita Durga, Karissa Ramsawak and Melissa Kalloo at the conference.

Staff from the School of Visual Arts take a moment to look at some new technology via the cell phone.

The smiles indicate these members liked what they received from the conference.