Career and Technical Education

Is your Industrial Tech. program recognized by your district as meeting the VPAA High School Requirement?

Halyna Bialczyk — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:44:43 -0400

A large district in my region needs to know the name of districts recognizing Industrial Technology as meeting the Visual, Performaing, and Applied Arts (VPAA) High School Requirement?
Halyna Bialczyk, Ed.D.
Wayne RESA CTE Consultant
CEPD 42 CTE Regional Admin.
e-mail: bialczh@resa.net

Would you please share your district and/or building attendance policies? We are struggling!

Brooke — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:37:28 -0400

THANKS!

MASSP Programs

Trimesters for High School, Middle School, Alt. Ed. & CTE

Brooke — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:08:35 -0400

We are doing some preliminary investigating and I could use some information from any of you who have the experience in implementing trimesters. Questions:
How long have you had it in place?
Do you see a positive correlation to academic achievement?
Has it cost you ($$-wise)and if yes, when (what year) did the cost increase become most apparent?
Have any of you who have gone to trimesters then gone back to semesters?
How has the community "bought in"?
Your overall experience in implementing: positive or negative AND how long did it take you to implement?

THANK YOU!!!!!!
Brooke Ballee
bballee@vanburenschools.net

Teacher, Parent, and Public Relations

Online Options

cbunker — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:24:15 -0400

We are looking at online options for high school courses and credit recovery options. We are looking at Aventa and Michigan Virtual University. MVU has had some issues in the past. Does anyone have a recommendation or insight (positive or negative) on these or other online options?

Students

Does anyone have a job description for a high school Data Coordinator or Data Specialist?

John Kirk — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:19:40 -0400

I looking for a job description of a person on the high school or middle school staff that collects, disaggregates or aggregates, then gives or presents that data to Administration, teachers, school board, etc.

Administrators

Does anyone have some used lockers (150 +) that will be available for this fall?

sdupuis@oaisd org — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:12:27 -0400

Career and Technical Education

How can I win a $50 Gas card?

Donna Oser — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:04:33 -0400

Administrators

How do I vote in the MASSP Elections?

Donna Oser — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:40:55 -0400

Career and Technical Education

Is there any interest in the Teacher Cadet curriculum training to be hosted in Michigan?

cwildes@mcesa k12 mi us — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:31:31 -0400

Saginaw Valley State University holds the site licence to host the Teacher Cadet training for the South Carolina Teached Cadet curriculum. We are interested in starting a program and I am looking for other districts that might be interested in the training at SVSU. They would like around 28 participants to host a training. Please let me know if you are interested in the Teacher Cadet Training Program.

Cathy Wildes

MCESA

Career and Technical Education

I am looking for a Dance Curriculum for high school level to round out our Fine Arts program.

Brooke — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:04:24 -0400

Our high school is looking to implement a comprehensive dance program at the high school level starting with freshmen. Do any of you have a worthwhile program running currently or know of a curriculum that is already out there??? Any information would be appreciated! Thank you!

Brooke Ballee

bballee@vanburenschools.net

Students

Showcase Your Great CTE Program!

Donna Oser — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:54:36 -0500

Dear CTE Leader:

On April 23, 2008 the Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals will be hosting a very special event at the State Capitol in Lansing. Our goal is to impress upon our state legislators not only the importance of Career and Technical Education, but how Career and Technical Education can be the best avenue for some students to meet the increased academic requirements of the Michigan Merit Curriculum.

The purpose of this event is to showcase some of our CTE programs. We want to be able to show, explain and demonstrate to our legislators that academic content is inherent within CTE and that their recognition of this will go a long way in promoting the granting of academic credit towards graduation. We want the legislators to see what students are learning in these classes, and how the classes are teaching students not only technical skills, but the academic skills as well.

There is an enormous number of programs throughout the state that qualify for this opportunity. In order to choose just ten, we need any interested programs to complete the online application at http://tinyurl.com/2j7843 and return it to us by February 8, 2008. We will notify the ten schools who will be invited to the capitol by February 29, 2008.

We hope to receive an application back from your school’s programs, and if selected, the students in the program (a group of 4 or 5), the CTE teacher, the CTE director, and the high school principal will be invited to join us in April. We would also like to invite any
television station or newspaper the school has to come and cover the event. These students will have a chance to work alongside the media that will be covering the event, as well as talk to legislators throughout the day.

This event will take place all day on Wednesday, April 23, 2008. We would like students to be setup and ready to go by 8:30AM, and the day will come to a close at 3PM when students can begin to take down their displays.

Please contact us with any questions you may have about the application process or the event itself.

Career and Technical Education

I am looking for MME review materials.

cbunker — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:10:23 -0500

School Reform and School Improvement

Do you operate any exploration or other program for special pops?

Tim Hughes — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:26:41 -0500

We are exploring a vocational type program for some of the students at our Area School. These are students up to 26 years old. We are looking at some type of program to expose them to our occupational programs and provide them some transition services as well. Your feedback is appreciated.

Tim Hughes

thughes@cgresd.net

Career and Technical Education

Do you use an electronic or online enrollment process for CTE Center-Based enrollments? If so what is it?

hansenralph — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:58:28 -0400

We are considering having our local school counselors enroll students directly into an online or other electronic enrollment system for CTE and am looking for suggestions.

Thank You

Career and Technical Education

06-07 Perkins??

Tim Hughes — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:24:59 -0400

Has anyone been asked to submit Non-Federal dollars on their final report??

And have you been asked to edit you budget for 06-07??

Thanks for your response! Tim Hughes

Career and Technical Education

Myspace

gbrown@vbisd org — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:36:10 -0400

Has anyone dealt with the legality of having a student, who is in possession of school property, to show you their private Myspace page to track who/where they sent the school property to? Our admin team is split on this issue. The issues are: Are items sent over the Internet public domain? Is the “public” part of Myspace public domain and the “private” section not?

Policies, Laws, and Court Decisions