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American Association of Community Colleges Academic Senate for California Community Colleges: Vocational Leadership Institute Keep America Working General Session – Friday, Jan 28, 2011 CTE Faculty Rock! Maureen White, EdD., CTE, Chancellor’s Office mwhite@cccco.edu
CTE Faculty Rock! • “cautiously optimistic” • “Let’s get California working again.” Governor Jerry Brown • Jobs R Us • Navigate in era of deficits • More budget cuts
CTE Faculty Rock! • Practitoner professors navigating or making sense of Perkins and state funding • Those who can, do • Those who can do, teach • CTE Faculty teach what they can do! • You are the CTE leaders • CTE Faculty Rock!
CTE Faculty Rock! • “Are we going off a cliff, or into greener pastures?” Wheeler North • Greener pastures = metaphor: green, emerging, vocational, career technical, sustainable careers • Learning Objectives: navigate and explore • Be a boundary spanner: go beyond • “perfect storm” for CTE across the nation • Conne to connect the dots of possibilities
CTE Faculty Rock! • From Resolutions to Perkinsolutions • Program improvement = compliance • It’s the economy, [stupid] • K.I.S.S. keep it simple, scholar • Mixed messages = opportunities
CTE Faculty Rock! • Macro view and goals: • 7 billion people in 2011 • $28 billion deficit in California • 8 million graduates by 2020 (Obama) • CTE = higher salaries • “refudiating” Recession? Recovery? • Recuperation? Reflection. • Reinvention. Repercussions. Ramifications?
CTE Faculty Rock! • We can accurately predict that we do not know for sure yet what 2011 will bring • “It depends” • Republican legislature in D.C. • Democratic majority in California • Speculations? • Less government; less spending • Taxes?
CTE Faculty Rock! • OVAE – Office of Vocational & Adult Education • Accountability for 50 states • No one definition of CTE • Educators question methodology, quality & accuracy of vocational data • Sector disconnects • Cannot access data or too cumbersome • FERPA changes advocated = track students wi without personal identity; limited • disclosure for longitudinal data
CTE Faculty Rock! • OVAE – cont’d • Strengthen connections: workforce dev & education • Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. • Contradictory needs of diverse sectors: government, education, employers • Agree on need for common, clear, consistent education data standards (CEDS)
CTE Faculty Rock! • SB 1440 • FDRG – Faculty Discipline Review Groups • No more than 60 transferable units • No more than 18 units in a major • TMC – Transfer Model Curriculum • Go to www.c-id.net • Go to www.cccco.edu for FAQS • Per Academic Affairs Dean Stephanie Low
CTE Faculty Rock! • EDGAR – Education Dept General Administration Regulations • Michael Brustein, Perkins guru • Perkins may be cut 5% in 2011-2012 • Perkins can hire faculty for new program dev • Perkins funding for equipment is only for “sequence of courses” • Tech Prep may become part of Perkins I-C
CTE Faculty Rock! • Micro view: California • “fasten your seat belts…[educators]” • Mid-year cuts; good, bad, ugly • California State Plan for Career Technical Education 2008-2012 • “creative within compliance” • Funding: completion, not access • Perkins: flexibility for POS • Perkins: inter-disciplinary, industry standards not “teaching to test”
CTE Faculty Rock! • Per Ron Selge, CTE Dean, CCCCO • Changes in classrooms • Programs transportability across districts • Tech Prep – cuts to secondary • “Undeclared” = recruitment opportunity • Apprenticeships = CTE opportunity for (RSI): related and supplemental instruction • Reach out to employers - prescriptive
CTE Faculty Rock! • Governor’s 2005 Initiative on Pathways (SB70) • $48 million for middle schools (Scott & Arnold) • Improving & Strengthening CTE • Partnership: CDE & CCCCO (2+2+2+2) • Seamless, integrated multiple pathways = retention • Employers love SB70 • Who Do U Want 2B? Strategic partnerships with community, employers = 15 career pathways • Ad campaign: careers that pay well & in demand
CTE Faculty Rock! • SB 70 cont’d • Academic Senate managing campaign, leading nation • “we have the engines; this money is the gasoline” • Comprehensive career exploration & experiences • Developing innovative program models that support diverse student needs & learning styles • Since 2005: total students served: 342,957; total staff served: 16,806; total partnerships: 5,134
CTE Faculty Rock! • Homework: • Perkinsolutions Leadership Tips for New Year’s Inspirations • Think like a dean – how to be a better bean counter (rock the data) • Think like a student – how to get a job • Think like an employer • Think like Governor Brown (“era of limits”) • Get
CTE Faculty Rock! • Be “creative within compliance” • Contextualize your curriculum • Get conversant with SB 70 • Get active in professional associations • Get to know your Student Services colleagues • Grants. Grants. Grants. • Create Advisory Committees with EWD & WIBs • Integrate Career Planning into CTE courses
CTE Faculty Rock! • Homework: Perkins Leadership Tips cont’d • Partner with career dev professionals • Partner with secondary faculty & counselors • Get your students internships • Partner with employers & chambers • Conduct a SWOT Analysis for each TOP & POS: strengths, weakness, opportunities, trends • Partner with EWD: Economic & Workforce Dev
CTE Faculty Rock! • Required Reading List • American Assoc. of Community Colleges • California State Plan for CTE 2008-2012 • Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative www.cccco.edu • http://www.whodouwant2b?.com/student/pathways
CTE Faculty Rock! • Required Reading List • Chancellor’s website: www.cccco.edu • Community College League of California • 2010: Year In Review – www.cccco.edu • www.CACareerCafe.com • CTE Resource Guide http://www.cccco.edu/Portals/4/EWD/CTE/CTE_Resource_Guide-October_2010.pdf
California Community Colleges, Economic and Workforce Development Program Peter Davis Statewide Director of the Advanced Transportation and Energy Initiative 619-473-0090 or email: outrchpd@me.com
How can the EDWP reach out and help You? • Offer regular Staff Development on Emerging Technologies? • Send Emails of IDRC, RTF Grants / Special Events? • Place Training and Special Events on a Single Calendar? • Offer PODCASTS or an EWDP newsletter? • How about linking EWD website to your website?
What can You do to become more connected to EWDP? • Become an active Partner of an Initiative? • Apply for EWDP short term grants or become an Initiative Center? • Partner with an Initiative to create and deliver training? • Call an Initiative Director and state your interest? • Call EWDP Staff for assistance or suggestions for help? • Call the EWDP Dean and ask to get involved with a Initiative focus?
http://www.cccewd.net/Initiative Directors Contact information Jose Anaya – Statewide CACT Director Phone: (310) 973-3165 Fax: (310) 973-3132 Email: janaya@elcamino.edu Web: www.makingitincalifornia.com Linda Zorn - Statewide Director Health Workforce Phone: (530) 879-9069 Email: lzorn@cccewd.net Web: www.ca-hwi.org Jeffrey Williamson - Statewide CITD Director Phone: (951) 571-6458 Email: jwilliamson@cccewd.net Web: www.citd.org Peter Davis - Statewide ATTE Director Phone: (619) 473-0090 Email: pdavis@cccewd.net ATTE Website: www.attecolleges.org 4Energy Website: www.fourenergy.org Stephen Wright - Statewide MEI Director Phone: (805) 496-8583 Email: swright@cccewd.net Web: www.nmeiewd.net Jeffery O' Neal – Statewide Biotech Director Phone: (916) 484-8052 Email: onealj@cccewd.net Web: www.cccbiotech.org Bruce Whistler - Statewide WpLRC Director Phone: (650) 641-0161 Email: bwhistler@cccewd.net Web: www.wplrc.org Elaine Gaertner - Statewide Director COE Phone: (408) 288-8611 Fax: (408) 288-8606 Email: elaineg@cccewd.net Web: www.coeccc.net Catherine Swenson, Director Training and Development Email: cswenson@cccewd.net Phone: (916) 452-5668 Richard Della Valle - Statewide ETC Director Phone: (925) 672-2209 Email: rdellavalle@cccewd.net Web: http://www.envtraining.org Michael Roessler -Statewide Director, Business & Entrepreneurship Center Program Phone: (916) 361-2964 Fax: (916) 361-3381 Email: mroessler@cccewd.net