Webinars
Webinars: Focusing on CTE
NASDCTEc hosts webinars on a variety of topics and pressing issues of interest to the CTE community and others. These webinars bring NASDCTEc staff together with leading experts from across the nation to share their expertise on issues including policy, research and best practices. Participants can take full advantage of these opportunities by asking questions during the live session, or you can follow up with comments and questions afterward.
All NASDCTEc webinars are recorded and archived online for convenient access and reference. We encourage you to browse previous topics below—and listen to any you might have missed.
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Common Career Technical Core Initiative
When: Friday, April 27, 2012
The National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium (NASDCTEc) is coordinating the state-led effort, which will complement and support comprehensive college and career ready standards, such as the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSI) in English Language Arts and Mathematics. The CCTC will build a common connection among states to help prepare CTE students for College and Career.
Forty-three states (including the District of Columbia and a Territory) have signed a declaration of support for the CCTC initiative, pledging their involvement in the development stage. Hear about the purpose, process, the progress to date, and information on how to get involved during the upcoming public comment period.
Presenter: Dean Folkers, Deputy Executive Director, NASDCTEc
E-mail: dfolkers@careertech.org.
RECORDING Link
PowerPoint in PDF version
Webinar: Achieve and State CTE Directors: Integrating the Common Core State Standards and Career Technical Education
As states and districts begin to implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), teachers may need to redesign their lessons and classroom activities to ensure that course content is rigorous and aligned to the CCSS. To help teachers and education leaders address this challenge, Achieve and NASDCTEc have joined to pilot a process in which secondary and postsecondary educators develop and evaluate instructional tasks that demonstrate how for high school mathematics expectations can be applied using Career Technical Education (CTE) content. Hear about the process, pilot results, and the plans for the future related to using the protocol.
Dean Folkers, Deputy Executive Director of NASDCTEc/NCTEF, and Teresa Matthews from Achieve will discuss the implementation and outcomes of the initiative.
Mark Williams, CTE State Director in Illinois, will describe his state’s role in the pilot project.
Title: Achieve and State CTE Directors: Integrating the Common Core State Standards and Career Technical Education
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Time: 2 – 3 p.m. EST
Webinar recording HERE
PowerPoint Presentation in PDF Format
Accompanying Brief
This brief describes a pilot project to help educators integrate the Common Core standards and Career Technical Education (CTE). Achieve and NASDCTEc jointly created the project to guide educators as they develop instructional tasks that integrate CTE-focused standards, the National Career ClustersTM Knowledge and Skills Statements, into their lessons.
Legislative Update: Policy, Funding and the Year Ahead
Join Nancy Conneely, NASDCTEc's Public Policy Manager, as she walks you through all the policy happenings in Washington. The last few years have seen cuts to Perkins funding and a stalemate in Congress over the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Workforce Investment Act, while Perkins is due to be reauthorized next year. During this webinar you will hear about the President's State of the Union Address and his proposed FY13 budget, as well as Congressional plans for funding and education legislation.
When: Wednesday February 22, 2012 at 2 p.m. EST
Slides in PDF format PowerPoint
If you have any questions, please contact Nancy Conneely at nconneely@careertech.org.
NASDCTEc Webinar – CTE: Keeping Adult Learners Competitive for High-Demand Jobs
In today’s turbulent economy, how can adult workers best position themselves to succeed in rewarding careers in high-demand fields? Further, how can employers aid in up-skilling current employees to meet increasingly complex job demands?
Our recent webinar, “CTE: Keeping Adult Learners Competitive for High-Demand Jobs,” was on Thursday, December 8th from 3 p.m. – 4 p.m., when experts from the field helped us answer these questions by describing how their programs directly and indirectly keep adult learners competitive for high-demand jobs.
Dr. Ron Duggins, Director of the Center for Business Development at Oklahoma’s Meridian Technology Center, discussed Meridian’s Business Incubator program and how it helps adult entrepreneurs to launch successful businesses.
Mr. Harry Snyder, Adult Workforce Development Supervisor at Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development in Ohio, described how Great Oaks’ Aviation Maintenance – Power Plant Technician class is preparing adults for high-demand jobs and meeting the needs of area businesses.
PowerPoint Presentation in PDF format
Click here for recording for “CTE: Keeping Adult Learners Competitive for High-Demand Jobs.”
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NSDI Up to Speed Webinar Oct 6 2011
Title of webinar: Bringing New State Directors and Leaders Up to Speed on what’s on NASDCTEc’s Radar, Thursday, October 6, 2011 3 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time
Description: There are many new changes in the air for NASDCTEc. As new State Directors and Leaders, NASDCTEc staff want to ‘bring you up to speed’ on all the new happenings going on in your new organization. Speakers Dean Folkers, Erin Uy and Ramona Schescke will share key activities, programs, and projects, and put you ‘in the know’ so when you attend the upcoming Fall Meeting you will be as informed as your peers.
Speakers:
• Dean Folkers, Deputy Executive Director, NASDCTEc
• Erin Uy, Communications and Marketing Manager, NASDCTEc
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Investment in Career Technical Education: Linkages to Greater Earnings, Higher Employability, and Positive Benefit-Cost Ratio - September 27
Policy makers today must direct scarce funds toward education programs that produce maximum results, and reduce or even eliminate funds for programs that do not measure up. States and programs that demonstrate the positive impact of Career Technical Education (CTE) through return on investment (ROI) analyses can provide compelling reasons for policy makers to support CTE. Unfortunately, diminishing resources and unavailability of longitudinal data limit many states and CTE programs from carrying out ROI studies.
NASDCTEc’s Education Policy Analyst, Kara Herbertson, frames the conversation by highlighting state and organization cost-benefit examples that aim to show the value of CTE and education to the community and the economy. We are also pleased to have Kevin Hollenbeck, Vice President and Senior Economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, join us for this discussion.
NASDCTEc’s latest issue brief on the same topic, the last in our series of vision papers, will be available on the day of the webinar.
Tuesday, September 27th from 2:00 to 2:45 pm ET.
Recording Link and PowerPoint Resource
For more information, please contact Kara Herbertson at kherbertson@careertech.org.
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Green Education Foundation Pilot Curriculum Project - September 27
Victoria Waters, GEF President, introduced two new GEF pilot offerings for CTE schools including their Green Building Course which is a one semester, environmental science elective that educates 11th and 12th grade students on green building attributes and benefits, and provides them with the educational resources necessary to understand, identify, and improve environmental inefficiencies within their own school buildings. Topics covered included: sustainable sites, energy sources and conservation, water efficiency and indoor environmental quality as related to building construction, operation and maintenance. The course utilizes a digital resource.
GEF also showcased its brand new professional development course for K-12 faculty entitled Sustainability Education Concepts and Teaching Methods.
For more information about the webinar content, please contact Dean Folkers at dfolkers@careertech.org.
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The Ins and Outs of Advocating - September 14
Recent cuts to the Perkins Act and the threat of further cuts to all discretionary programs reinforces the need to let Congress know that CTE programs are vitally important to preparing individuals for careers and turning around the economy.
Join NASDCTEc’s Public Policy Manager, Nancy Conneely, as she walks you through how to be an effective advocate for Perkins and CTE. While many use the terms “lobbying” and “advocating” interchangeably, there is a difference. So, even if your state prohibits you from lobbying, there are still things you can do to bring attention to the importance of CTE at a time when it is needed more than ever.
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For NASDCTEc Members only: The Common Career Technical Core – An Update - August 25
The Webinar will discuss the progress of updating the Career Clusters™ Knowledge and Skill Statements and the creation of the Common Career Technical Core Standards. Specifically, learn about the timeline, emerging communication strategies that engage state in participating, reviewing, and embracing the concept and resources, and the opportunities associated with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
Presenter: Dean FolkersMembers, you may access the recording link after logging in with your username and password.
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State Directors Only: How to Use the new Adobe Acrobat Pro X Software State Directors Received at the Spring Meeting - August 23
Adobe Education and NASDCTEc Career and Technical Education administrators and educators in districts of all sizes are continually challenged to do more with less. Sharing research and best practices, collaborating with colleagues and improving communication can be difficult in an environment where federal funding has remained flat for almost eight years.
Working with NASDCTEc to provide solutions to meet these challenges, Adobe Education provided Acrobat Pro X software to State Directors of Career and Technical Education at the NASDCTEc Spring Meeting. Directors will more easily than ever be able to collect and share research, white papers, presentations and electronic forms in a secure and collaborative way. This single license (Windows or Mac) donation from Adobe represents an Estimated Street Price (ESP) of $159.
Adobe Education is now inviting State Directors to a virtual orientation using Adobe Connect 8. Attendees will have a chance to ask questions and discuss possibilities with Acrobat Pro and Connect specialists.State Directors, if you did not receive your Adobe Acrobat Pro X Software at the Spring Meeting, please contact Paul Faust at pfaust@adobe.com. If you have staff members who would benefit from this training, please have them register along with you
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MEMBERS-ONLY Webinaron CTE: Learning that Works for America ™ National Initiative - July 12
NASDCTEc has launched a national initiative focused on garnering awareness of and support for CTE. The CTE: Learning that Works for America ™ campaign calls on the entire CTE community to participate and do their part in delivering a clear and unified message about the value of quality CTE. NASDCTEc is providing the CTE community with a range of resources from talking points, posters, brochures and PowerPoints to enable them and help boost the campaign.
Panelists will provide an overview of the campaign, provide insight on how to best use the campaign resources, and provide examples of how other organizations can do their part in supporting the campaign.Speakers include Dave Buchholz, Dave & Associates, Principal
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Tom Holdsworth, SkillsUSA, Associate Executive Director and Director Office of Communications & Government Relations
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Building Comprehensive Programs of Study through Progressive State Career Technical Education Legislation, June 30, 2011
Building Comprehensive Programs of Study through Progressive State Career Technical Education Legislation
A major catalyst in the systemic transition from vocational education to more comprehensive, seamless CTE has been the implementation of programs of study (POS) within the Career Clusters Framework. Join us for a webinar featuring Jan Brite of the Arizona Department of Education and a representative from the Georgia Department of Education as they discuss their states’ efforts to connect students with POS and the resulting outcomes. Learn about the role that current state CTE legislation plays in promoting POS, and how POS serve as an effective delivery model for education.
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Career Technical Education and College and Career Ready Standards: Preparing Students for Further Education and Careers - May 9, 2011
Join us as we discuss NASDCTEc's third vision paper on supporting students' acquisition of college and career ready standards. Kansas and Cisco will highlight efforts on this panel webinar.
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Career Clusters and Programs of Study: State of the States Webinar - April 11, 2011
Hear about the states' overall progress and trends in program of study implementation. Lee Burket of the PA Dept. of Ed. and Scott Stump of the CO CCS will discuss successful strategies used and challenges faced in implementing programs of study.
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States Lead Development of Statewide POS - March 8, 2011
Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio and Oregon will illuminate the statewide POS development process by sharing how OVAE’s 10-component framework informed their work and by giving a behind-the-scenes look at one of their milestone achievements.
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Washington Update: State of the Union, Funding and the New Congress - February 23, 2011
Join Nancy Conneely, NASDCTEc's Public Policy Manager, as she walks you through all that's happening in Washington. You will hear about the President's State of the Union Address and his proposed budget, Congressional plans for funding and more.
