KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – It won’t open until 2025, but the search has begun and may soon end, to find teaching staff for Kalamazoo’s new Career Connect Center, being built at Sprinkle Road and I-94.
The new facility is set to open one year from this month, if all goes as planned.
Assistant Superintendent Eric Stewart says they are seeking professionals who are looking for a change.
He says a state teaching certificate is not necessarily a requirement.
He says they are looking all over the Midwest for the most qualified in their fields, and he thinks the new facility, and their new curriculum will draw the best here.
They are looking for professionals who can teach tomorrow’s computer programmers and techs, chefs, electricians, auto mechanics, plumbers, HVAC installers/machine tool operators, welders and pharmacy techs.
The deadline for applications is Friday, May 24th, tomorrow.
Interested applicants can go to KRESA’s website to get started.
Stewart says he hopes to have them onboard this summer. This fall they will teach in the current facilities scattered around the county before moving into the new center.
Jakki Bungart-Bibb, Director at Michigan Works says they hope to make the best use of the new facility by scheduling vocational training for others, after the high schoolers go home, and by providing a link between educators and employers.
Members of the multiple local advisory panels who have been helping prepare curriculum gathered downtown this week for the final session of this school year, to receive an update.
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