Tell City-Troy Township Schools Celebrate CTE Month, Highlight Programs
Tell City-Troy Township posted on Feb. 16 declaring February CTE Month, listing 15 career pathways at TCJSHS and thanking CTE educators for building real-world skills.
“🎉 February is CTE Month — and we want to celebrate our incredible Career & Technical Education teachers! 🎉” reads the Tell City-Troy Township School Corporation news item posted Feb. 16, 2026 and authored by Chris Hollinden on the district website. The post announced the district’s CTE observance during February and served as the center of mid-February outreach from local schools.
The district post spelled out why the celebration matters in concrete terms: “Our CTE teachers provide an invaluable service to our students by helping them build real-world skills, explore career interests, and prepare for success in the workplace and beyond. Through hands-on learning, industry experience, and daily encouragement, they help our students discover passions and pathways for the future.” The news item closed with a direct thank-you: “Thank you to all of our CTE educators for the time, expertise, and dedication you invest in our students every day. We appreciate you! 👏”
Tell City’s Feb. 16 post also cataloged the breadth of programs available to students at “TCJSHS,” listing 15 career pathways by name: Marketing and Sales, Culinary Arts, Automotive Services, Ag Mechanical & Engineering, Healthcare Specialist, Television Broadcasting, Civic Arts, Education Careers, Industrial Technology Maintenance - Electrical, Social and Community Services, Welding Technology, Aviation Management, Criminal Justice, Physical Therapy, and Computer Science. The pathway list anchors the district’s claim of offering hands-on and industry-linked opportunities inside Perry County schools.
The local emphasis on CTE was echoed by neighboring Troy School District media: a YouTube episode titled “CTE Opportunities - The Best Is Yet To Come” posted Feb. 20, 2026 on the Troy School District channel, which the snapshot shows has 2,600 subscribers. The video had 111 views and 1 like at the time of capture and, per its description, featured Superintendent Dr. Rich Machesky alongside “CTE Supervisor Mike Munaco and Athens teacher Adam Burns.” A segment of the episode transcript opens with Dr. Machesky saying, “Hello and welcome to the Best Is Yet to Come podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Rich Machesky. This is a February episode and February is Career Technical Education Month, also known as CTE. With me to delve further into exactly what CTE is and what it looks like across the Troy School District is Mike Monaco. Mike Monaco serves as a supervisor for career readiness and CTE. Thanks for joining me, Mike. I appreciate it.” The district materials include both spellings — Munaco in the video description and Monaco in the transcript — for the CTE supervisor; both forms are preserved in district postings.
The Tell City news page includes district contact and navigation text captured on the post: “Return to Home” and “Find Us” appear in the page UI, and the contact block is shown exactly as captured: Tell City-Troy Township School Corp837 17th StreetTell City, IN 47586Phone (812) 547-3300 547-3300) . The page snapshot also contains a corrupted “Stay Connected” artifact as recorded: App'%3e%3cpath%20d='M10.436%206.67302C10.145%206.98102%209.97302%207.45902%209.97302%208.07802V30.194C9.97302%2030.814%2010.145%2031.291%2010.436%2031.599L10.51%2031.671L22.899%2019.282V19.136V18.99L10.51%206.60002L10.436%206.67302Z'%20fill='url(%23paint0_linear)'/%3e%3cpath%20d='M27.028%2023.413L22.899%2019.282V19.136V18.99L27.029%2014.86L27.122%2014.913L32.015%2017.693C33.412%2018.487%2033.412%2019.786%2032.015%2020.581L27.122%2023.361L27.028%2023.413Z'%20fill='url(%23paint1_linear)'/%3e%3cg%20filter='url(%23filter1_i)'%3e%3cpath%20d='M27.122%2023.36L22.898%2019.136L10.436%2031.599C10.896%2032.087%2011.657%2032.147%2012.514%2031.661L27.122%2023.36Z'%20fill='url(%23paint2_linear)'/%3e%3c/g%3e%3cpath%20d='M27.122%2014.912L12.514%206.61202C11.657%206.12502%2010.896%206.18602%2010.436%206.
Taken together, the Feb. 16 Tell City post and the Feb. 20 Troy School District episode frame local CTE outreach in mid-February as a coordinated push to spotlight career pathways and career-readiness staff in Perry County. As the Troy video description states, “Career and Technical Education classes are highly valuable opportunities for students to gain career readiness skills. These programs are spotlighted nationally every February to promote how work-based learning experiences in school lead to future careers,” reflecting the districts’ shared messaging about preparing students for the workplace and beyond.
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