Building Partnerships to Benefit Communities

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Building Partnerships to Benefit Communities

• Melinda Barnett CTE Program Coordinator
• Region 5 Education Service Center
• Jim Griffith Maintenance Director
• Valero Oil Refinery

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Why Partner?

• Partnerships are formed to complement one or more
  parties for mutual benefit.
• All parties have something to offer and something
  to gain.

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Why Partner?

• New Identity Community and the students
• Most Important Reason We are falling
  desperately behind the need we must work
  together to attract the students to these
  curricula.

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What Do We Mean By Partnerships?

• Industry/Business (Local Regional)
• Post-Secondary Institutions
• Education Service Centers
• Other School Districts

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What Do We Mean By Partnerships?

• Economic Development Corporations
• Chambers of Commerce
• ABC Construction, Trade Unions, etc.

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WHAT DOES A PARTNERSHIP LOOK LIKE?

• Phone calls
• Community Advisory
• Panel
• Subcommittee with key
• supporters from
• employers

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WHAT DOES A PARTNERSHIP LOOK LIKE?

• Dual credit and articulation agreements with
  post-secondary institutions
• Union training centers or association classes for
  secondary students

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IDENTIFY YOUR NEED

• High Demand for Current
• Job Market?
• Creating a Potential
• Workforce?
• Attracting New Business?
• Resources to Bring CTE
• Programs up to Industry
• Standards?

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IDENTIFY YOUR NEED

• Reducing the Drop-out Rate?
• Drug Abuse?
• Greater Community
• Parent Involvement?

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KEY TO SUCCESS

• COMMUNITY ADVISORY PANEL
• Business or Industry Representatives
• Trade or Career Path Representative
• Teacher
• Student
• Parent
• Counselor
• Administrator
• Post Secondary Rep or Alumni
• CTE Coordinator
• Minority or LEP Representative

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WHO ARE ALL THE PLAYERS?

• Students
• Teachers
• School System
• Parents
• Employers industry, commercial, and public
  domains
• Business, Employer, and employee associations
• School Administrators
• Community

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CTE PROGRAM RESOURCES

• ABC Construction
• NCCER
• Trade Unions
• 2-YR or Community Colleges
• Industry/Company Specific Training Programs

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SUGGESTIONS FOR PARTNER INVOLVEMENT

• Mock Interviews
• Donations for needed resources
• Exposing students to real life experiences
• Ag to Industry
• Athletes to Industry
• Field Trips sponsored in part or whole by
  industry

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MORE SUGGESTIONS

• Spot Lectures
• Safety talks to CTE
• programs
• Recruitment for CTE
• programs
• The hiring process
• New trends in industry
• Available new careers
• Training opportunities

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HOW DOES CTE HELP STUDENTS?

• In Dropping Out of High School and the Place of
  Career and Technical Education, Plank, DeLuca,
  and Estacion (2005) reported that the risk of
  dropping out for students who entered high school
  at a normal or younger age decreased as they
  added CTE courses to their curriculum until they
  reached a ratio of taking one CTE course for
  every two academic courses.

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REAL-WORLD APPLICATION

• Many students lose interest and motivation in
  education because the curriculum does not seem to
  have a real-world application. Academics are
  often presented in isolation, instead of in a way
  that spotlights how the subject is applicable in
  the real world.
• DeWitt, S. (April, 2008). Principal Leadership,
  Blurring the Lines.

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REDUCING THE NUMBER OF DROP-OUTS

• Another study, conducted in 1998 by the
  University of Michigan, found that high-risk
  students are 8 to 10 times less likely to drop
  out in the 11th and 12th grades if they enroll in
  a CTE program instead of a general education
  program. The same study also reported that a
  quality CTE program can reduce a schools
  drop-out rate by as much as 6 and that CTE
  students are less likely than general education
  students to fail a course or to be absent
• Kulik, J. (1998). Curriculum tracks and high
  school vocational studies.

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CONSIDERATIONS

• Student Interest - Generate if none is there
• High Demand by Industry
• High Quality Program
• Flexible Schedules
• Timing is Crucial!
• - Before Pre-Registration for the next school
  year course selections
• - Early fall for graduating seniors seeking
  career opportunities

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ITS TIME TO SHARE

• Students, future employees, future
• Training facilitiespublic school, trade school,
  tech college, etc.
• Knowledge, school curriculum, industry training
  programs
• Experience, visual, anecdotalguest speakers from
  the field

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SHARING MORE

• Resources, material, consumables, guest
  lecturers, demonstrations
• Access to special tools, processes, skills,
  material, support, field trips
• Real life examples and exposure for students
• Work? What is it?

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SUPPORT IS ESSENTIAL!

• School administrators must understand value,
  need, requirements, and inclusion in school
  community.
• Regularly held meetings involving all
  stakeholders is non-negotiable.

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CTE POSITIVE FOR ALL STUDENTS

• The 2004 National Assessment of Vocational
  Education Final Report to Congress (U.S.
  Department of Education) reported that
  occupational concentrators increased their 12th
  grade test scores on the National Assessment of
  Educational Progress (NAEP) by about 8 scale
  points in reading and 11 points in math, but
  students who took few or no CTE courses increased
  their reading on NAEP by only 4 points and showed
  no improvement in math achievement.

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Thank you!
Melinda Barnett melinda_at_esc5.net Jim Griffith
Jim.Griffith_at_valero.com