Link to Connecticut Technical High School System
Emmett O'Brien Technical High School 141 Prindle Avenue, Ansonia, CT 06401
 
Telephone: (203) 732-1800, FAX (203) 735-6236

Connecticut State Department of Education

 

Principal's Office

 

Lisa Hywla-Collandro - Principal of O'Brien Tech

Welcome to Emmett O'Brien Technical High School. Please take the time to carefully review the information outlined on our website. We encourage every student to reach his or her highest potential. Our faculty is dedicated to providing outstanding technical and academic instruction. Instruction is diversified in order to prepare students for the world beyond high school. It is our goal to give students the marketable skills that are necessary for post high school education and employment in a rapidly changing technological society. We offer ten occupation specific technologies in addition to our academic courses and adult education programs. Our curriculum is new, innovative, and will prepare our graduates for the challenges presented by post-high school academic study, and will provide them the problem-solving skills essential for success in a technological career. The curriculum is aligned with the Connecticut Frameworks and our students have advanced on challenging statewide assessments that gauge progress for The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The overall goal of NCLB is to have all students-100%-achieving at grade level in 2014.

O'Brien Technical High School completed the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) Evaluative Study in the March of 2004, and we have maintained our accreditation. The NEASC study noted signs of growth. We have enhanced and diversified our academic and technical curricula. In the future, students will choose from elective courses, and will participate in lessons that are presented through differentiated instruction. Our campus redecoration and renovation continues. We are adding language arts and mathematics learning labs, new technology, and redecorated classrooms. A sense of anticipation and excitement is clear. We are very pleased that we can be a part of it.

We welcome your inquiries. We believe that working in concert with our students, their parents/guardians, and the community provides them with greater opportunities to grow, learn, and appreciate our world.


Lisa Hylwa

Principal