Agenda Overview

Agenda at-a-Glance

Date	Event - Session
Sunday, June 17	Registration/Help Desk Open 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
	Pre Sessions 11:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. (pre-registration required)
Monday, June 18	Registration/Help Desk Open 7 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
	Pre Sessions 8 a.m. - Noon (pre-registration required)
	Opening General Session 1 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
	Breakout Session A: 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
	Breakout Session B: 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
	Breakout Session C: 4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
	Evening Reception (light hors d'oeuvres) 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Tuesday, June 19	Registration/Help Desk Open 7 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.
	Continental Breakfast 7 a.m. - 8 a.m.
	General Session 8 a.m. - 9 a.m.
	Breakout Session D: 9:15 a.m. - 1 a.m.
	Breakout Session E: 10:15 a.m. - 11 a.m.
	Breakout Session F: 11:15 a.m. - Noon
	Luncheon with Special Program Noon - 1:15 p.m.
	Breakout Session G: 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
	Breakout Session H: 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
	Breakout Session I: 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Wednesday, June 20	Registration/Help Desk Open 7 a.m. - Noon
	Continental Breakfast 7 a.m. - 8 a.m.
	Working Sessions for State Directors on Wednesday (closed session)
	Breakout Session J: 8 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
	Breakout Session K: 9:45 a.m. - 11 a.m.
	Closing General Session 11:10 a.m. - Noon

Opening General Session Monday, June 18: Transformation through Innovation: What Can We Learn from Global Trends

This “Meet the Press” style panel discussion will inform the audience on global trends that are driving innovation in teaching and learning. We’ll explore questions such as:
•How is technology is influencing the content and delivery of education?
•How are global economic demands influencing America’s educational priorities?
•Describe the learning environment that best engages and motivates students.
•How does one teach innovation? Creativity?
•What are the essential things all students must know to be successful?
•What can we learn from the educational approaches of our competitors?
•What data should be driving educational leadership decisions?
•Other countries, like China, are looking at the US’s work around Career Clusters as a model to emulate. Reactions to this trend?
•What role and responsibility should business/industry/labor have with the American education system?

Panelists: Dr. Brenda Dann-Messier, Assistant Secretary, Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE), U.S. Department of Education; Dr. Timothy D. Hodges, Research Director, Gallup Consulting; Dr. William C. Symonds, Director, Pathways to Prosperity Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Governor Bob Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education (former Governor of West Virginia);
Don Henderson, Senior Manager, Creative Expression, Apple, Inc.

This dynamic panel, representing diverse perspectives, will dive into topics that will have you challenging your assumptions and leave you with the knowledge that all educators should have to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s workplace.

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Tuesday, June 19 General Session: Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) - The Future of Career Technical Education Standards

As a result of the principles set forth in the 2010 CTE Vision: Reflect, Transform, Lead, a visionary effort was launched to create a set of common state standards for CTE, the Common Career Technical Core.

This general session will unveil the recently-developed CCTC, which represents the most comprehensive, high-quality benchmark to date in the United States for what CTE students should learn and know. The effort is the culmination of a two-year initiative that included comprehensive research, analysis and input from more than 2,000 individuals representing business and industry, education, workforce and community leaders from across the country.

Dr. Patrick Ainsworth, President of the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium (NASDCTEc) and State CTE Director for the California Department of Education, will lead the session.

Dr. Dean Folkers, Deputy Executive Director of NASDCTEc will provide a glimpse into how the CCTC evolved and what it means for the future of CTE.

Join us for this session and be among the first in the nation to see the groundbreaking standards that are sure to change the future of CTE.

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Closing Keynote Session Wednesday, June 20

We are pleased to announce that Rehema Ellis of NBC News, will provide thought-provoking, inspirational remarks to our group.

With a 25 percent dropout rate nationwide and a rising number of students needing remedial education once they get to college, many would refer to this as a crisis. No longer are poor scores in reading, writing and mathematics the problem of one school or division. Academic success means economic success and the more educated the people are, the more prepared the country will be to compete globally.

How does Career Technical Education, with the Career Clusters™ framework as an essential tool, add to this success? Across the United States and abroad, Ms. Ellis will share what she views as “working” in the education system.

Rehema Ellis joined NBC News in 1994, as a general assignment correspondent. In 2010, she was named Chief Education Correspondent and was an integral part of NBC’s first annual Education Nation summit that focused on the strengths and weaknesses of America’s education system. Her reports appear on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, The Today Show, and MSNBC. She was part of the NBC Emmy award-winning coverage of the plane crash in the Hudson River, Miracle on the Hudson. She also won an Emmy for her reporting on the 2008 Presidential Election of Barack Obama and his historic inauguration. She has been part of other headliner stories including the attacks on the World Trade Center. She was the first person to identify the attack on the air as “Nine-Eleven.” Ms. Ellis has reported on Hurricane Katrina, the death of Michael Jackson, and the Haiti earthquake. As a correspondent for NBC, she traveled to Zaire to report on the mass killings that left an estimated one million people dead in Rwanda. She has distinguished herself as a lead correspondent and received numerous awards including local and national Emmys, Edward R. Murrow Awards, Associated Press awards, and awards from the National Association of Black Journalists. She's also a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Journalism.

Born in North Carolina, and raised in Boston, she graduated from Simmons College in Boston and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York.

Ellis currently lives in New York City with her young son.

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Ms. Ellis' presentation is in partnership with NBC LEARN.