The Family, Career and Technology Department includes courses from Business Education, Family and Consumer Sciences, and Technology Education. While each discipline maintains its specific focus, all are both academic and occupational in nature and have content in common.  Each discipline has a career focus, helping students explore and prepare for the world of work.  Each also has a focus on technology, helping students to understand and evaluate the many applications of technology in individual and family life, the business world, and in our global society. FCS focuses on how the individual and family consumer utilizes goods and services, while Business Education focuses on how to effectively provide those goods and services. Technology Education explores the role technology plays in everyday life including transportation, energy, communication, housing, and the production of goods. Together, the three disciplines have united to help Northwestern Lehigh students address the recurring, practical problems of individuals, families and business. The Career and Technology Department uses an integrative approach to help students identify, create, and evaluate goals and alternative solutions to significant problems of everyday life, and to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

Our Department Mission

We strive to help students identify, create, and evaluate goals and alternative solutions to significant problems of everyday life including those encountered in family and careers. We strive to help students learn to use technology as a tool to help solve those problems