Building Capacity: Integrating CTE Programs for Career Pathways

1. Strengthening Big Sky Pathways RetreatDay 2 Debra Mills, Director National Career Pathways Network

2. What’s Around the Corner?

3. Perkins & the Blueprint

4. “the blueprint”

6. Bottom line . . . Building capacity to integrate CTE Programs of Study (POS) into the broader career pathways system

7. With Perkins, the race for the $$$$$$ begins . . .

8. With Perkins, the race for the $$$$$$ begins . . . Accountability: Funding shift to competitive allocations Innovation: Not “gonna” but “done did it”

9. Zeroing IN: Secondary to Postsecondary

10. How can we make a smooth transition?

11. Bridging the Gap • Curriculum • Staff Development • Sharing Resources • Connections with Business/Industry • Sharing Data

12. Report Outs

13. Lunch

14. Zeroing In: Employers & Advisory Committees

15. Resource

16. Advisory committees are a quality control function of your program and are a tool for administration and faculty to “talk to the customer”

17. Role of Advisory Committees • Provide specifications for your program • Ensure the quality of your graduates • Define the exit points

18. ADM & Faculty Role: • Share information • Learn from B/I/L • Respond to Recommendations

19. Joint Advisory Committees • Separate advisory committees support the individual programs at each institution • Joint advisory committees support the pathway that overlays two or more institutions.

22. Rural Areas

24. Committees can look for ways to expand & enhance involvement of small businesses by having them leverage their connections with • Subcontractors • Suppliers • Other business contacts. • Work through local chamber. Be sure to give small businesses plenty of recognition as many of them have lived in the community for years.

25. Motivation for Members • One of the best rewards for advisory committees is to ask for advice and then to respond to it.

26. E E E B E E E E B Typical Advisory Committee Meeting E B = Educator = Business

27. Effective A.C. Meeting B E B B E E B B E

28. REVIVE Existing Advisory Committees • Give them a task to help you with your program • Have AC give you a data-driven report on how our graduates are doing as employees. • Give AC a data-driven report on how YOUR students are doing in Math. • What % of recent HS graduates does your program capture? GPA? Remediation rate? Retention?

29. Revive AC: • ED to B/I • Academic & Technical Teams • 9-14 Counselors/Advisors • Staff Development LED by B/I • Math applications in CTE • Real world applications for academic instructors • Open industry-based training to instructors

30. Strategies from across the country • Cluster (like industries) approach from the EDC • Pathway Partners (Chamber M adopt instructor) • Staff Dev delivered by B/I • Joint Advisory Committees (sec & ps) • Thinking outside the box (13-month Mfg program) • Digital Communication • B/I Tours for ALL faculty in a program (including gen ed)

31. Advice for New Beginnings • Business must provide leadership • Relationships need to be built at ALL levels • Think in SYSTEM terms • Academic & technical skills • Secondary & Postsecondary • Connect to existing entities (Chamber, EDC) • Educate your community (gold-collar worker) • Always focus on your mission (economic dev)

32. ASSIGNMENTS

33. Assignments • Partnering Inventory • Pathway Coordinator Contact • OPI Specialist Contact • School Sites Visits • Business/Industry Partnering • Community-based • School Site Teams (Strengthen) • Advisory Committees (Connect)