Ohio CTE Innovation and Impact Conference 2022

Today’s technological challenges shift almost day to day. Global competition for in-demand tech related careers is at an all-time high and will continue to increase as the world ideologies, environmental factors, and high-tech globalization flourishes. Students face challenging and life changing career decisions during formative years and once in secondary education, they are ready to begin mastering skills and earn credentials/certifications to enter the workforce and/or pursue higher education. Integrating rigorous CTE STEM curricula, Esports and academic curricula allows students to enjoy the benefit of graduating college, career, and military ready. Discover how to maximize your STEM and IT Pathways while garnering support from all stakeholders – business and industry, teachers, administrators, parents, and the community at large.

With a major shift in the American Education Policy, there's a need to restructure the ways in which we develop and scale work-based learning. While educators redefine readiness, it's crucial to track both CTE concentrators and state compliancy while putting student success at the forefront. We'll address ESSA, Perkins, and WIOA alignment along with the explosion of “choose your adventure” graduation requirements, and ever-changing legislation. We will foster open dialogue to discuss  what it means for a student to truly be career and life ready with specific examples of how districts and intermediaries are scaling WBL and career pathways.

This presentation will explore the many CTE Programming options available to students in grades 7-12, including Career Based Intervention, Job-Training Coordination, middle-school coursework and worforce development pathways. We will specifically discuss the importance of student goals, needed interventions and desired outcomes in determining the best placement for a student. Resources to be shared from multiple offices within the Ohio Department of Education.

An overview of DACC's research and work to grow the capacity of Employability Skills in today’s students.
During this session, you will learn about a collaborative process used to develop a systemic approach to employability skills instruction at the Delaware Area Career Center. Attendees will see how we used the feedback from instructors to synthesize a common approach to teaching employability skills consistently across all lab programs in our school. Additionally, copies of materials (including our employability skills rubric and electronic scoresheet) that can be modified and utilized at your own school will be shared at the end of the session.

The presentation will provide an overview of how the three career and technical education delivery systems recruit and retain students for their programs. During the presentation we will provide how recruiting efforts are both similar and different amongst the three delivery models and what we were able to learn from each other to bring back to each one of our school districts. 
*Shoemaker Leadership Institute Presenation