Transcript Cooperative Alliances 101

Tech Center Enrollment
Tech Center Budgets
Major Initiatives that have built
Career Tech
1988
• High Schools that Work
1990
• Tech Prep
1994
• School to Work
2007
• Career Cluster/Career Majors
2008
• Tech Centers that Work
2010-2011
• School Reform/Accountability
2011-2012
• Certifications
How Do Student Services Fit In?
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School of Choice
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School of different ages
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High School
Adult
Transition
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Students choose to come to us
What are we doing to individualize their experience
What are we doing to support the student
Employment
Education
Military
Student support/services is the key to all of it!
A Little Perspective….
Quote? – What Year?
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Frank Parsons, 1909
Yet, there is not part of life
where the need for
guidance is more emphatic
than in the transition from
school to work--the choice of
a career, adequate
preparation for it, and the
attainment of efficiency
and success.
We Have A Rich Tradition
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Excellence In Serving Oklahoma
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Changing To Meet Emerging Demand
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Career Guidance since the 1970’s
ODCTE Guidance since 1987
Continue to add, refine, refocus services such as academic
advisement, college readiness, integrated academics, job
placement
Provide products, professional
development, technical assistance, and
leadership for career and academic
development
The Year is 1963….
Average Cost of new
house $12,650.00
 Average Income per
year $5,807.00
 Gas per Gallon 29 cents
 Average Cost of a new
car $3,233.00
 Loaf of bread 22 cents
 Pass the Vocational Act
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Funded Director of
Guidance at SDE
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Provide technical
assistance to our newly
formed AVTS districts
$ used for development
of career educations
materials
Guidance in CTE
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In 1986, the SDE decided not to
replace the retiring Director of
Guidance
(1987) ODVTE held a strong
commitment for
guidance/counseling and chose
to create the Vocational
Guidance Coordinator position.
Have had Guidance ever since.
SDE did re-instate own
coordinator.
Presently, work in partnership
with SDE Counseling
Coordinator
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Counselors Only Conference
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2007: Guidance Division
changed name to Career and
Academic Connections to better
reflect diversity of targeted
audiences.
Currently, services cover
guidance and counseling, career
and academic advisement,
assessment, integrated
academics, services to students
with disabilities, career
development, OKCIS, workforce
development/job placement,
college readiness, etc.
Big Influence: Perkins Legislation
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Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act (1984Perkins I)
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology
Education Act Amendments of 1990 ( Perkins II)
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology
Education Act of 1998 ( Perkins III)
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education
Improvement Act (2006-Perkins IV)
Perkins I Guidance language (1984)
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for comprehensive programs, to meet
career development, vocational education,
and employment needs of students and
potential students, including assistance in:
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(1) self-assessment, career planning and decisionmaking, and
employability skills;
(2) transition and placement activities;
(3) maintaining themselves in established occupations;
(4) developing new skills in high-technology and skill-shortage
areas;
(5) developing midcareer job seeking skills clarifying career goals;
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(6) obtaining and using information on financial assistance for
postsecondary and vocational education and job training.
Perkins II Guidance Language (1990)
The term “career guidance and counseling” means
programs- (A) which pertain to the body of subject matter and
related techniques and methods organized for the
development in individuals of career awareness,
career planning, career decision making, placement
skills, and knowledge and understanding of local,
state, and national occupational, educational, and
labor market needs, trends, and opportunities; and
 (B) which assist such individuals in making and
implementing informed educational and
occupational choices.
Perkins III Guidance Legislation
(1998)
The term “career guidance and academic
counseling” means providing access to
information regarding career awareness
and planning with respect to an individual's
occupational and academic future that shall
involve guidance and counseling with
respect to career options, financial aid, and
postsecondary options.
Perkins IV Guidance Language2006
The term “career guidance and academic
counseling” means guidance and counseling
that:
 provides access for students (and parents, as
appropriate) to information regarding career
awareness and planning with respect to an
individual's occupational and academic future and
 Provides information with respect to career options,
financial aid, and postsecondary options, including
baccalaureate degree programs.
Progression of Development
Quality Indicators
Accreditation Standards
Guidance
Self Study
Student Services Model
Moving forward
Counselors provide career
planning/advisement
• Career and academic advisement /planning
with counselors, student services staff ,and
instructors working together
Recruitment/career
activities starting with
sophomore level
• Career exploration/career and academic
planning starting with middle school Level
Helping students
transition to employment
Limited Parental
Involvement
• Helping students transition to postsecondary
education and employment
• Seeking active parental involvement