UXBRIDGE — Superintendent Michael Baldassarre and Principal Dr. Michael Rubin are pleased to share that Uxbridge High School has been named a spring 2024 Innovation Career Pathways designee by the Healey-Driscoll Administration.
The new Innovation Pathway, in Healthcare and Social Assistance, is Uxbridge High School’s fifth Innovation Pathway designation. The school currently offers the Manufacturing, Information Technology, Biomedical Science, and Business & Finance pathways.
The Healthcare and Social Assistance pathway will involve connections between courses in psychology, child development and educational methods, the national Educators Rising “Grow Your Own” program, and the Taft Early Learning Center and Whitin Intermediate School.
Through the pathway, students will be prepared to complete in-class teaching experiences, receive teaching assistant credentials, and understand how to support students with a variety of learning profiles and needs.
In 2018, UHS was one of the first four schools to earn an Innovation Career Pathway designation. Most of the Massachusetts school districts that have earned the designation since worked closely with UHS, visited the school or participated in workshops that have furthered the growth of these programs across the state.
“We are proud to be a leader in the Innovation Career Pathway work in Massachusetts as one of the first four schools to ever earn the designation,” Principal Dr. Rubin said. “The new Healthcare and Social Assistance pathway will provide additional unique opportunities for our students to enhance their skills and pursue their interests.”
Innovation Career Pathways provide students with applied learning experience in high-demand industries such as Advanced Manufacturing, Information Technology, Environmental and Life Sciences, Health Care and Social Assistance, Business and Finance, and Clean Energy. Providing these pathways enables students to explore high-demand careers they may want to pursue at no cost while strengthening workforce pipelines to meet the needs of employers in those industries.
Thirty-six high schools statewide were awarded designations by the Healey-Driscoll Administration on April 3 at Carver Middle School. Each awarded school offers education in one or more Innovation Career Pathways. With these new designations, the Healey-Driscoll Administration reports that approximately 8,000 students will be enrolled in one or more of the 226 Innovation Career Pathways.
For the full list of designated schools and more information about Innovation Career Pathways, visit mass.gov.
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