DENVER — The Southern Aroostook Vocational Educators (SAVE) Association President Robert “Bo” Zabierek attended his second Career and Technical Education (CTE) Caucus at the National Education Association (NEA) Representative Assembly (RA) in Denver, Colo. the entire first week of July.
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ATTENDS CAUCUS — Robert “Bo” Zabierek, right, attended the Career and Technical Education Caucus at the National Education Association Representative Assembly the first week of July. With Zabierek are, Dennis Walters, outgoing CTE Caucus president; and Alexis Holmes.
He was a first-time delegate to the National Representative Assembly last year in Atlanta as well as serving as a state delegate at the Maine Education Association’s (MEA) Representative Assembly, in Portland, for the past five years.
“I got settled in to a routine of caucusing with the CTE Instructors before the daily Representative Assembly and at lunch breaks during the Assembly,“ said Zabierek, Aroostook County – MEA District A Board member for the 2013-14 school year. On July 4, the CTE Caucus meeting featured Alexis Holmes, the NEA’s Senior Policy Analyst for the Education Policy and Practice (EPP) Center for Great Public Schools, which oversees CTE for the NEA in Washington, D.C.”
While in Denver, Zabierek attended a dinner sponsored by the Horace Mann Insurance Company, held at local Denver favorite, Mallory’s Restaurant. “I was also fortunate to locate an authentic Polish Restaurant near the state house, The Belvedere, which served food like my Grandmother used to make!”
Zabierek was elected an at-large delegate in a statewide election for the two-year seat on the National Assembly.
“I will be running for re-election state-wide to serve again next July and will continue to work with the CTE Caucus throughout the year”, where he will serve as the liaison between the Caucus and the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE). HE is President-Elect of the newly formed ACTE-ME chapter to help bring CTE issues to the forefront of Education locally, statewide, and nationally.
He can be contacted at bozabierek@gmail.com.
