Oklahoma Tech Prep

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Oklahoma Tech Prep
FY2009 Tech Prep Grant Application Quarterly
Technical Assistance Meeting 1.8.2008
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Housekeeping

• Turn off Cell Phones
• Bathrooms
• Working Lunch
• OKTPA Update Sam
• Breaks

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Announcements

• Tech Innovation Conference
• January 23rd, Moore Norman South Penn
• Statewide Alliance Meeting
• February 20th, State Regents
• From the Field

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QTA Overview

• Working Meeting
• take something home
• Four Strategies
• career majors
• preparatory services
• professional development
• accountability
• RFP Overview

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Looking Back

• Transitional Grants Awarded
• new rules, new consortia
• Strategies for Improvement
• Summer Conference
• organized around key strategies
• Tech Prep Leadership Institute
• Tech Prep OnLine
• organized around key strategies

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Looking Forward

• Increased Expectations
• More Defined
• narrowed focus
• More Accountability
• tell the Tech Prep story

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Proposed Timeline

• FY 2009 Tech Prep Grant Application Available
• March 27, 2008
• CareerTech Board
• Application Due
• April 30, 2008
• Notification of Acceptance
• May 15, 2008
• Fiscal Year
• July 1, 2008 -June 30, 2009

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Discussion Process

• Key Strategy
• Strategies For Improvement
• Changes
• Work Time
• 30 minutes
• Report Out
• 15 minutes

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Goal

• Increase the number of Oklahoma CTE students who
  complete high school with college credit, pursue,
  and complete a postsecondary credential or an
  industry recognized certificate or degree, and
  are employed in the field in which they were
  prepared

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Focused Strategy

•   Implementation of high-tech, high-wage,
  high-demand career majors utilizing the career
  cluster framework, supporting local industry
  clusters in economic development and wealth
  generation, creating seamless fast-track
  transitions from 11th and 12th grade to associate
  and baccalaureate degrees

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Career Majors

• Strategies for Improvement
• prepare students to enter high-wage, high-demand
  and high-skill occupations
• incorporate more academic content into CTE
  courses
• strengthen academic course recommendations for
  CTE career majors
• ensure students transition from one level to the
  next
• increase document number students receiving
  transcripted college credit and complete 2 and 4
  year degrees

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Career Majors

• High-Demand, High-Skill, High-Wage
• must meet 2 of 3 criteria
• must cite data references
• State, Regional, Local

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Career Majors

• Student Performance
• compare Tech Prep students to non-Tech Prep
  students by career major
• explain differences

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Career Majors

• Work Time
• evaluate
• analyze data
• justify
• Report Out
• career major
• justification

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Focused Strategy

• Providing preparatory services that include
• comprehensive education and career planning
• awareness of student opportunities
• academic assessment
• career and technical assessment
• student transitions success

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Preparatory Services

• Strategies For Improvement
• begin a holistic review of student support
• look at the traditional role student services has
  played and innovate, expand, and/or strengthen
  that role to help students transition to the next
  level of education with appropriate
  support-career, academic and personal
• define and address special populations, dropout
  recovery and other obstacles to student success
• use the data that we collect to drive improvement
  of student services programs that leads to
  increased student support, achievement, and
  success

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Preparatory Services

• How will information be provided
• How will students be supported
• How will potential Tech Prep students be
  recruited
• What targeted recruitment strategies
• Assistance provided
• Dropout and Re-entry

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Preparatory Services

• Work Time
• evaluate
• analyze
• justify
• Report Out
• strategy

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Focused Strategy

• Providing targeted professional development for
• teachers, faculty and administrators
• counselors

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Professional Development

• Strategies for Improvement
• move past "update meetings" and provide high
  quality, intense, and targeted professional
  development
• research and justify a professional development
  activity
• determine the return on investment of
  professional development dollars
• provide targeted professional development for
  counselors

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Professional Development

• High Quality, Intensive
• teachers, faculty, and administrators
• counselors
• Innovation
• create a college going culture
• development of 21st century skills

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Professional Development

• Work Time
• evaluate
• analyze data
• justify
• Report Out
• activity
• justification

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Focused Strategy

• Identification of local data to meet
  accountability measures, benchmark progress, and
  implement needed change

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Accountability

• Strategies for Improvement
• get comfortable with using data
• choose what type of data to use
• get down to the raw data
• use the data to drive our decision making process

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Accountability

• How will you use data for change?

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Accountability

• Work Time
• evaluate
• analyze data
• Report Out
• strategies
• tell your story

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RFP Discussion
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PART II APPLICATION GUIDELINES

• Funding
• Definitions
• Accountability Measures

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Funding

• Funded on an annual basis
• Continuation of FY08 funding  
• Reserve Funds
• reserve funds may be used for improvement grants
• additional granting process

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Funding

• Consortia will negotiate performance levels for
  specific performance criteria with the ODCTE
• beginning this year
• Sanctions and termination of Tech Prep funding
  possible
• 60-day notice
• Other funding sources such may be used to
  implement Tech Prep strategies
• Carl Perkins Title 1-C and professional
  development funds

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Tech Prep Definitions

• Secondary Tech Prep Student a student who has
  enrolled in two courses in the secondary
  education component (designated and approved
  career major) of a tech prep program
• Postsecondary Tech Prep Student a student who
  has completed a secondary education component
  (designated and approved career major) of a tech
  prep program and has enrolled in the
  postsecondary education component of a tech prep
  program at an institution of higher education

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Accountability Measures

• Do not change
• Reported from ODCTE to Consortia
• Must have good input
• Will be used in evaluations

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PART III APPLICATION PACKET

• Signature Page
• Section A Analysis of Consortia Performance
• Section B Identification of Consortium
  Strategic Plan
• Section C- Consortium Advisory Committee
• Section D Consortium Educational Partners
• Sections E Career Majors

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III. Application Packet

• Section F Student Support
• Section G Professional Development
• Section H Accountability Measures
• Section I Coordination
• Section J Budget

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Signature Page

• Name of the Tech Prep Consortium that is applying
  for the funding
• technology center(s) and college(s) in the
  proposed consortium
• appropriate superintendent signature required
• Name and contact information of the person
  submitting the application on behalf of the
  consortium
• Name of the educational entity that will serve as
  fiscal agent, and the contact information for the
  person responsible for fiscal reimbursement
• Name and contact information of the person to
  whom questions concerning the application should
  be directed.

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Section A - Consortia Performance

• List Major Accomplishments for FY08
• Align to Key Strategies
• career majors, preparatory services, professional
  development, accountability, cooperative alliance

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Section B - Consortia Strategic Plan

• Indicate progress made from FY08
• Provide a list of Goals, Objectives, and
  Strategies
• aligned to key strategies and overarching goal
• Provide a list of Critical Success Factors
• must be measurable
• describe how you will measure them
• Include a timeline for completion

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Section C - Advisory Committee

• 51 Business Partners
• chaired by business partner
• Educational Partners
• Other Partners
• parents, students, organizations
• Planning Meeting
• Attachment A Strategic Planning Meeting Minutes

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Section D - Educational Partners

• Narrative Description
• Designate all Educational Partners
• primary partner must be informed
• primary may defer to secondary partner
• Attachment B - Letter of Support
• Alliance Partner(s)
• institutional head must sign the letter

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Section E - Career Majors

• List of proposed Career Clusters
• national Career Cluster designation
• Document all Tech Prep Career Majors
• Document the Rationale for Selection
• 2 of 3
• Performance Data
• compare Tech Prep students to non Tech Prep
  students within career major

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Section E - Career Majors

• Attachment C - Local Plan of Study
• one Tech Prep career major
• inclusive of secondary and postsecondary
  academic/technical courses
• identify those courses eligible for college
  credit.

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Section F - Preparatory Services

• Students will be identified
• Targeted recruitment strategies
• Supported to complete programs
• Supported in transition
• Supported to complete degrees

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Section F - Preparatory Services

• Assisted with required assessments, placement in
  postsecondary and/or employment, preparatory
  services
• Comprehensive career guidance and academic
  counseling will be provided to participating
  students, including issues of dropout prevention
  and reentry and the needs of special populations

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Section G.1 - Professional Development

• Teachers Faculty and Administrators
• high-quality intensive professional development
• Innovation
• creating a college-going culture
• development of 21st century skills
• creating a culture of high expectations

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Section G.2 - Professional Development

• Counselors
• high-quality intensive professional development
• Providing information to students regarding Tech
  Prep
• Support student progress in completing Tech Prep
  programs
• Providing information on related employment
  opportunities

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Section G.2 - Professional Development

• Ensuring that students are placed in appropriate
  employment or further postsecondary options
• Staying current with the needs, expectations, and
  methods of business and all aspects of industry
• Providing comprehensive career guidance and
  academic counseling to participating student,
  including special populations
• Promoting opportunities available to individuals
  participating in programs nontraditional for
  their gender

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Section H - Coordination

• Explain the coordination between your Tech Prep
  initiative and the strategies proposed with
• appropriate local Carl Perkins plans
• Alliance partnerships
• other school improvement initiatives
• How are you leveraging your Tech Prep dollars
  with other school improvement initiatives

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Section H - Accountability Measures

• Identify data to be collected
• Academic Outcomes Report
• Specific strategies to use the collected data to
  measure consortium performance
• how will you tell your story
• Strategies for how data will be used to push
  improvement
• how will your data impact activities in the key
  strategies

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Section I - Budget

• Narrative
• Detail activities, services, and properties that
  will be utilized
• Addendum B Budget Form
• all signatures

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IV - ADDENDUMS

• Baseline Data Worksheet
• Budget

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Baseline Data Worksheet

• English II
• American Indian, Asian, Black, Hispanic, White,
  Other, Economically Disadvantaged
• Algebra I
• American Indian, Asian, Black, Hispanic, White,
  Other, Economically Disadvantaged
• Student Graduation Rate

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Baseline Data Worksheet
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Questions

• When will it be online?
• after board approval
• What other resources do you need?

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