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Essex Tech Receives $8,500 in Grants to Hold First Credit for Life Fair

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Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical School
Dr. Heidi T. Riccio, Superintendent
565 Maple Street
Hathorne, MA 01937

For Immediate Release

Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019

Contact: Kelsey Bode
Phone: 617-993-0003
Email: [email protected]

Essex Tech Receives $8,500 in Grants to Hold First Credit for Life Fair

DANVERS — Superintendent Heidi Riccio is pleased to share that Essex Tech has been awarded $8,500 to support financial literacy education programming for students.

Essex Tech has been awarded $5,000 in Financial Education Innovation funding from the state and $3,500 from the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation to hold the school’s first Credit for Life Fair this April. The two grants will fully fund the event.

Essex Tech is among 46 schools throughout the Commonwealth that have been awarded Financial Education Innovation funding from the state this school year. 

Credit for Life Fairs task students with building a hypothetical budget. Students are first assigned a monthly income, and then visit tables overseen by local banks and businesses, as well as community volunteers, and make financial decisions based on their income regarding topics including insurance, transportation, savings and retirement, career counseling, luxuries, cell phone plans and education. By walking through the process of building a realistic budget, students develop a better understanding of healthy spending choices, the importance of budgeting and how to make complex financial decisions.

“Credit For Life Fairs are a really effective way to help students understand budgeting and financial literacy, and we’re incredibly thankful to the state and the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation for awarding us this funding to give our students this opportunity,” Superintendent Riccio said. “It’s critical that students develop an understanding of finances to prepare for success.”

In addition to the Credit for Life Fair this spring, Essex Tech currently offers a financial literacy elective to students, and aims to eventually expand its financial awareness program as well.

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Essex Tech Receives $750 Grant from Foundation Trust

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Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical School
Dr. Heidi T. Riccio, Superintendent
565 Maple Street
Hathorne, MA 01937

For Immediate Release

Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019

Contact: Kelsey Bode
Phone: 617-993-0003
Email: [email protected]

Essex Tech Receives $750 Grant from Foundation Trust

DANVERS — Superintendent Heidi Riccio is pleased to announce that Essex Tech has been awarded a $750 grant from the Foundation Trust to support efforts to increase diversity awareness.

The $750 grant will support the school’s Cultural Awareness Collective, a group of students at Essex Tech who work to educate faculty, staff and students to respect the differences between various cultures and promote acceptance and inclusion. Approximately 40 students are involved in the club, with 15 students actively attending each weekly meeting.

“We’re thrilled to have been awarded this funding from the Foundation Trust, which will support the vision and work of our Cultural Awareness Collective,” Superintendent Riccio said. “Cultivating a school community that recognizes and celebrates diversity and is sensitive to multicultural concerns is critical for supporting all of our students and preparing them to be thoughtful, considerate and informed citizens.”

A small group of students came together to form the Cultural Awareness Collective approximately two years ago, and since then have worked together to educate Essex Tech staff and students about diversity and sensitivity. Members of the group have provided professional development to faculty during in-service days to raise awareness of cultural sensitivity and proficiency. The students are also working to grow the Cultural Awareness Collective, and continue to welcome new members to their organization.

Thanks to the grant funding, the group will be working together to develop a service project that benefits the community at large.

“The Cultural Awareness Collective is undertaking important work to foster an inclusive atmosphere at ENSATS. The Foundation Trust is proud to support their efforts to advance kindness and understanding,” said Lauren Liecau, Manager of Outreach and Development at the Foundation Trust.

The Foundation Trust 

The Foundation Trust is a private philanthropic foundation serving Greater Boston. In supporting the important work of small to medium-sized nonprofit organizations, the Foundation Trust strives to enhance individual well-being and community development.  Learn more at www.FoundationTrust.org

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Greater Lawrence Technical School Receives $100,000 Grant to Grow Career and Technical Education Partnership Programs

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Greater Lawrence Technical School
Superintendent John Lavoie
57 River Rd, Andover,
MA 01810

For Immediate Release

Friday, Oct. 25, 2019

Contact: Kelsey Bode
Phone: 617-993-0003
Email: [email protected]

Greater Lawrence Technical School Receives $100,000 Grant to Grow Career and Technical Education Partnership Programs

LAWRENCE — Greater Lawrence Technical School was the first in the state to offer “after dark” programs to address the growing demand for Career and Technical Education (CTE) among students, and has just been awarded $100,000 from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to expand that initiative.

GLTS launched its “after dark” CTE partnership program with Lawrence High School during the 2018-2019 school year, allowing 21 juniors to take their core academic courses at Lawrence High from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. before traveling to GLTS to study Machine Tool/Technology/Advanced Manufacturing from 2:30-5:30. This school year, those students have continued their studies through the program, and GLTS launched a second, two year program in HVAC for Lawrence High students this fall as well.

The two-year “after dark” programs at GLTS allow students in their junior and senior years to earn a certificate in Advanced Manufacturing or HVAC.

“Unfortunately, every year we receive more applications than we have space for,” Superintendent John Lavoie said. “That’s a reality that technical and vocational schools throughout our state face. These career fields are booming and have a wealth of employment opportunities, and we’re thrilled to open up our programming to more students.”

Approximately 1,000 students apply to GLTS annually, with about 400 being accepted.

As a result of the success of GLTS’s program, DESE awarded $500,000 to six schools, including GLTS, throughout the Commonwealth this October to support the development and expansion of additional CTE Partnership programs. The $100,000 grant will support the new HVAC program at GLTS as well as the second cohort of students entering the Machine Tool/Technology/Advanced Manufacturing program.

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Greater Lawrence Tech Receives $80,000 School Safety Grant

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Greater Lawrence Technical School
Superintendent John Lavoie
57 River Rd, Andover,
MA 01810

For Immediate Release

Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019

Contact: Kelsey Bode
Phone: 617-993-0003
Email: [email protected]

Greater Lawrence Tech Receives $80,000 School Safety Grant

LAWRENCE — Students, staff and faculty will soon benefit from new security equipment at Greater Lawrence Tech, thanks to a grant from the Baker-Polito administration.

Greater Lawrence Tech is among fourteen regional vocational technical, agricultural and independent schools who were allocated funding, receiving $80,000 from the state. The Baker-Polito Administration awarded $7.2 million in grants to more than 140 Massachusetts schools this October in an effort to support school security initiatives.

“Security is of the utmost importance to all of us here at GLTS, and we’re incredibly thankful the Baker-Polito Administration recognized our need for this funding,” Superintendent John Lavoie said. “As new best practices, equipment, procedures and mechanisms are continually developed to bolster school security, we are always working to revise and improve upon the safety protocol and systems we have in place.”

The funding at Greater Lawrence Tech will allow the school to purchase and install electronic safety systems for all outside doors this school year, as well as an outdoor Public Address (PA) system that will facilitate communication between school officials inside the facility and people on the fields of the campus. The school will additionally install external network cameras as a result of the award.

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