Today Andy Ferrell speaks with Nancy Finegood, executive director of the Michigan Historic Preservation Network. NCPTT recently published online a guide titled “Introducing Preservation Trades to High School Students” which grew out of via work with Detroit’s Randolph’s Career and Technical Center.
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A fast, easy and low-cost approach for high school instructors, preservation trade practitioners and preservation organizations to introduce preservation trades in technical high schools.
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The Michigan Historic Preservation Network and the Heritage Education Program at NCPTT have developed a formal working relationship to create Vocational Preservation Trades curriculum for high school students.
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The overall goal is to develop a model secondary school curriculum dedicated to the training of skilled preservation artisans that will include an academic component and an industry/government sponsored field internship component. Upon graduation the students will have earned both a New York State Regents diploma and the equivalent of a one-year internship in their chosen restoration building trade.
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