Mid-Summer Update
August 4th
Letter From The Principal
Dear Parents and Guardians of Cape Cod Tech Students,
In about a month Cape Cod Tech will welcome back your student to what will hopefully be a "normal" year. The last 18 months have been anything but normal. We are preparing for the new school year, as the finishing touches on the new building are being applied. Much of the grounds still needs some work, but we believe our students will be able to experience the complete vision of this building and how it would transcend technical education into the 21st century.
Our 2021-22 Calendar is now available below and here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wflaNVGJthG4I7T1EkxCK_fdTbPs9nuy/view?usp=sharing
Parents, the calendar is not the only way we need to prepare. The vision of the new building and school community focuses on developing collaborative and relevant small learning communities with integrated technical and academic subjects. The new facility invites teachers to collaborate on a more global scale where their instruction will consistently engage your student to achieve at a high level. We developed our instructional model to position your students to learn 21st-century skills, especially the “four C’s”, collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking, while simultaneously meeting standard curriculum goals. In other words, we want to prepare your student for their future.
This vision is not something that is easily accomplished just by moving into a new facility, as we learned last year. As I shared in August of 2019 with our parents of juniors and seniors, our staff will need to learn to collaborate and integrate their curriculums, as well as find the best entry points to do so in the future. We began this work during the 2019-20 school year, but COVID shut is down in February of 2020. Due to social distancing and limited capability for our teachers to collaborate, the work was incomplete. Therefore, we are re-emphasizing continuous professional development to ensure that we cultivate this collaborative learning environment. As you will see, we will re-instate our once-a-month Monday 2-hour early dismissals (Green Days) as we did since the fall of 2016. Furthermore, we will re-introduce the 1-hour early dismissal on designated Wednesdays (Blue Days) during the course of the year. This time for collaboration will allow faculty and staff to foster and implement new learning opportunities for your child.
We have been receiving questions about the upcoming year and what it would look like for students while inside the building. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released their guidance for school districts late last week. We are reviewing it and deciding how to effectively implement their suggestions to best meet our school community. Here is a link if you would like to review it: https://www.doe.mass.edu/covid19/on-desktop/2021-0730fall-2021-covid19-guidance.pdf
This is an exciting time for our community. Your students will be experiencing the benefits of collaborative interdisciplinary academic and technical learning. This will lead them to successful careers, continuing education, and beyond. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at (508)432-4500 ext 2000.
William Terranova
Principal