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Explore the progression of advocacy in CTE and FACS, learn how to take action, and discover resources for advancing public relations and image advocacy. Engage stakeholders and play a crucial role in shaping the future of Career and Technical Education in New York State.
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New York StateCareer and Technical EducationFamily & Consumer Sciences
Advocacy • Where we have been • Where we are going • Playing your part
Difficult to Separate • Advocacy • Public Relations • Image
Advocacy The active support of an idea or cause expressed through strategies and methods that influence the opinions and decisions of people and organizations Association for Progressive Communications www.apc.org
Public Relations • the professional maintenance of a favorable public image by a company or other organization or a famous person. • the state of the relationship between the public and a company or other organization or a famous person. • "companies justify the cost in terms of improved public relations"
Image • a representation of the external form of a person or thing in art
What are you Already Doing? • Share • Reproduce • Improve/tweak • Do one more thing
Where We Have Been? • 1980’s Home and Career Skills • 1990’s continued Home and Career Skills • 2006 FACS/FCCLA Strategic Plan • 2011 SED Advocacy Strategies • 2013 CTE FACS Strategic Plan • 2014 NYSACTE Advocacy Activities Peter Carr Barrett Associates • 2015 Career Pathways and Programs of Study: A Federal Perspective Sharon Miller, Director, Presentation at the NYS CTE TAC Annual Conference
Where Are We Going? • Career and Technical Education
What to advocate? • Career and Technical Education: Family and Consumer Sciences • YOUR PROGRAM!!!! • Say Yes to FACS • CTE Endorsed Program • Multiple pathways • Middle School • Mandate • Support High School • Accelerated credit • Food Science • Art credit • Parenting Requirement
Playing Your Part • What are you already doing • What can you do fast and easy • What you could do with a little/lot time/effort • What you can do with a partner or team
Advocate to who? • Students • Parents • Guidance • Administration • Other disciplines • Family • Neighbors/friends • Who else………………..
What can I do NOW? • Image • Self • Classroom • Teaching Strategies • Vocabulary • Career and Technical Education • Family and Consumer Sciences
What can I do NOW? • What am I good at? • Bulletin boards • Power points • Articles • Classroom Strategies • Public Presentation • Other ………….
What can I do NOW? • What is my specialty? • Introduction to Process Skills • Communication Skills • Leadership Skills • Management Skills • Thinking Skills • Introduction to Content Topics • Career Development • Clothing Management • Community Connections • Consumer Resource Management • Family/Parenting • Financial Management • Human Development • Interpersonal Relationships • Nutrition and Wellness
What can I do NOW? • Activities in/out of classroom • Meetings, • Committees • Professional Development • Project Based Learning • Service Learning • Student Leadership • Other…………..
Resources • NYSED • www.nysed.gov • NYS Board of Regents • https://www.regents.nysed.gov/ • New York State Assembly • http://assembly.state.ny.us/ • New York State Senate • http://www.nysenate.gov/
Best Practice Conference • November 7, 2015 Syracuse • Are you presenting? Attending?
Family, Career and Community Leaders of America • Professional Development Opportunity • Teachers, students, advisors • November 13-15, 2015 • Owego Treadway Inn Hotel and Conference Center, Owego, NY • State Advisor Karen Thomas: kthomas189@twcny.rr.com • www.nysfccla.com
CTE CONFERENCE 2016 • Tuesday, June 28th and Wednesday, June 29th,2016 • Desmond Hotel Albany • Are you presenting? Attending?
Thoughts/Questions • Consistency • Logo (tag line) • Message