2006 Spring Meeting

Resources, Reports and Presentations

Below are the available presentations from speakers, as well as additional resources distributed at the NASDCTEc Spring Meeting held April 8-12, 2006 in Washington, DC.

This year we continue to recognize those partners who have generously contributed to the success of the meeting, especially the All-Stars sponsors who have demonstrated longstanding and/or substantial support for NASDCTEc. This year, they include: Career Communications, Inc./American Careers Education Program, Cisco Systems, National Career Assessment Services Inc./The Kuder People, National Occupational Competency Testing Institute (NOCTI), National Restaurant Association Education Foundation, Oracle Academy, and VTECS.

Resources

• Meeting Evaluation Form

  (MSWord,37Kb): If you haven't done so already, please complete the spring meeting evaluation form. Thank you!

• Career Clusters: A Plan of Education for a Global Economy

  (PDF,259Kb)

• 2006 Spring 2-Minute Roundups

  (PDF,242Kb): a brief summary of the status of CTE within each state.

Presentations

• Mrs. Elin Miller

  (PowerPoint,1.80Mb), President & CEO, Arysta LifeScience North America.

• Mrs. Kimberly Green

  (PowerPoint,24.21Mb), Executive Director, National Association of Career Technical Education Consortium

• Mr. Michael Cohen

  (PowerPoint,2.22Mb), President, Achieve

• Dr. Joanna Kister

  (PowerPoint,175Kb), Educational Consultant

• Dr. Terese Rainwater

  (PowerPoint,6.00Mb), Program Director, State Scholars Initiative, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education

• Dr. Ann Benson, Educational Consultant: Handout #1(MSWord,81Kb) and Handout #2 (MSWord,79Kb)

• Mr. Richard Blais

  (PowerPoint,296Kb), Executive Director, Project Lead the Way

• Dr. Larry Case

  (PowerPoint,1.68Mb), CEO, National FFA Organization

• Mr. David Shreve

  (PowerPoint,360Kb), Senior Committee Director, National Conference of State Legislatures

• Ms. Jan Bray

  (PowerPoint,179Kb), Executive Director, Association for Career Technical Education

• Dr. Margaret Ellibee

  (PowerPoint,123Kb), Director, Secondary Career and Technical Education, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

• Ms. Jean Stevens

  (PowerPoint,241Kb), Interim Deputy Commissioner, Office of Curriculum & Instructional Support, New York State Education Department

• Dr. Melinda Merchur Karp

  (PowerPoint,574Kb), Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Ms. Gisela Harkin

  (PowerPoint,41Kb), Career Development Program Officer, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education.

• Mr. Jayson Chung

  (PDF,3.78Mb), Associate Vice President, Wisconsin Technical College System

• Mrs. Patricia Merrick

  (PowerPoint,8.05Mb), Section Administrator, Secondary Career and Technical Education, Louisiana Department of Education

• Mr. Jay Savage

  (PowerPoint,74Kb), Regional Accountability Specialist, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education

• Dr. James R. Stone, III

  (PowerPoint,606Kb), Director, National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

• Dr. Cynthia Pellock

  (PowerPoint,537Kb), Assistant Professor, Workforce Education & Development Program, Pennsylvania State University.

• Career and Technical Education Occupational Skill Assessment Practices and Support for a National Skills Assessment System: A Survey of the States, 2005 Executive Summary

  (MSWord,37Kb)