Fall 2007 Meeting Agenda

Tuesday September 11
8:00 AM—12:00 PM NCTEF Board Meeting
12:00 PM—4:00 PM New State Directors' Meeting
Wednesday September 12
8:00 AM—10:00 AM NASDCTEc Board Meeting
10:15 AM—11:45 AM Career Clusters Committee
10:15 AM—11:45 AM Awards Committee
11:45 AM—12:30 PM Lunch on Your Own
12:45 PM—2:15 PM Legislative Committee
2:30 PM—4:00 PM Accountability Committee
4:15 PM—6:15 PM NASDCTEc Board Meeting
6:00 PM—8:00 PM Welcome Reception

Being hosted by Melior, Inc. and Brustein and Manasevit
Thursday September 13
8:00 AM—9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM—1:00 PM Registration
8:30 AM—10:15 AM Opening General Session:
  • President's Welcome
  • Welcome to North Carolina
  • Singing of the National Anthem
  • Roll Call of States
  • Swearing in of 2007-08 Officers

Keynote Presentation by Dr. June Atkinson, North Carolina's State Superintendent of Public Instruction

Topic: What in the World is Going On?

10:15 AM—11:15 AM North Carolina's CTE System: Highlights from Our Host State

  • Sheryl Nixon, College Tech Prep Coordinator,Lincoln County Schools
  • Kimberly Wyont, Director, Educational Partnership Gaston College
11:20 AM—12:15 PM What is Happening with Technical Assessments?
  • Mr. Milt Ericksen, Arizona Department of Education
  • Dr. Karla Jones, University of Hawaii
  • Ms. Rebecca Payne, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
  • Ms. Elizabeth Russell, Virginia Department of Education
  • Dr. Kathy Shibley, Ohio Department of Education
12:15 PM—1:30 PM Luncheon Speaker: Mr. Gene Causby

Former Executive Director of the North Carolina School Boards Association and Former Assistant Superintendent North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

Topic: Characteristics of Successful People
1:45 PM—5:00 PM Innovation and Resource Roundtables

Topics include:
  • CIP-Cluster Crosswalks: Getting Us All on the Same Page
  • Using the Local Consortia Option in Perkins IV
  • Strategies for Academic Integration
  • Career Information Delivery Systems
  • California's State CTE Standards
  • Q & A with OVAE
  • Integrating Strategic Planning with Perkins IV
  • Secondary-Postsecondary Collaboration Options in Perkins IV
  • Strategies to Improve Performance on the Non-Trad Indicators
5:30 PM—9:00 PM Evening activity sponsored by North Carolina - Dinner at Johnson and Wales University
Friday September 14
8:00 AM—9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM—10:15 AM Business Meeting Breakfast

An important interactive session to gain input from the NASDCTEc membership on a new strategic plan, governance and the committee structure.
10:30 AM—11:30 AM Career Pathways: What is Happening at the Postsecondary and Adult Levels?

  • Dr. Larry Warford, College and Career Transitions Initiatives, League for Innovation

  • Dr. Debra Mills, Vice President of Partnerships, CORD
11:30 AM—12:15 PM Bronze, Silver and Gold: OVAE's Guidance on Programs of Study

  • Mr. Scott Hess, U.S. Department of Education
12:15 PM—1:30 PM Lunch Speaker: Dr. Tony Zeiss, President of Central Piedmont Community College

Topic: "Get'em While They are Hot!"
2:00 PM—2:45 PM Start Something: Entrepreneurship and Perkins IV

  • Mr. Horace C. Robertson, CPM, The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education
3:00 PM—5:15 PM Concurrent Breakout Sessions:


(1) Tech Prep: To Merge or Not To Merge
  • Ralph Barnett, Tennessee Department of Education
  • Arlene Parisot, Montana Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education
  • Karen Batchelor, Texas Education Agency

(2) Update on the Revision of the Cluster Knowledge and Skills Statements
  • Seth Derner, Vivayic
  • Doug Kueker, Vivayic

(3) Perkins IV Plan Innovations: An Open Forum for Sharing of Ideas
    Facilitators:
  • Jean Stevens, New York
  • Elizabeth Brown, North Carolina
Saturday September 15
8:00 AM—9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM—10:15 AM Navigating the Sea of Workplace Readiness Options

  • Mr. Terry Ausman, ACT
  • Dr. John Foster, NOCTI
  • Mr. Tom Holdsworth, SkillsUSA
  • Mr. Joe Mizereck, National Work Readiness Council (invited)
10:30 AM—11:30 AM Closing Speakers:

  • Jeanie Moore, Vice President of Continuing Education Programs
    Rowan-Cabarrus Community College


  • Dr. Kathleen Kennedy
    Vice President, Education and Training Program
    North Carolina Biotechnology Center

    • Topic: It Is a Biotechnology World!
11:30 AM—12:00 PM Closing Remarks: NASDCTEc President Rich Katt