1. Career and Technical Education updates Cheryl Winstel cwinstel@mail.nysed.gov 518-486-1547

2. Common Career Technical Core Initiative Purpose to define Career readiness for all students Coordinated by the National Association of State Directors of CTE NASDCTE Ensure rigorous, high quality CTE Programs –Standards for Career Ready Practice –Career Cluster Anchor Standards (16 clusters) –Career Pathway Anchor Standards – linked specific career pathways and industry benchmarks http://www.careertech.org/career-clusters/cctc/

3. Regents CTE (Technical Assessment) Advisory Panel  February Regents item P-12 next steps http://www.regents.nysed.gov/meetings/ 2012Meetings/February2012/212monthma t.html#P12 http://www.regents.nysed.gov/meetings/ 2012Meetings/February2012/212monthma t.html#P12 http://www.regents.nysed.gov/meetings/ 2012Meetings/February2012/212monthma t.html#P12  Looking at technical assessments as acceptable substitution for Regents exam  March 2013 anticipated completion date

4. Career Plan NYSED and NYSDOL Initiative to update current Career Plan on Career Zone

5. Course Catalog Teacher Associations met to establish a course catalog Identifies a student and teacher with courses to collect data Electronic input at district level Short and long list

6. Skills Credential Documentation of skills and other experiences attained by all students upon leaving school Phase I for students with severe disabilities who take the NYS Alternate Assessment Phase II for all other students

7. CTE Technical Assessments Many options available for CTE Programs NOCTI, NCCER, NATEF, HEAT, IFPO, ADOBE, SkillsUSA Ongoing discussion regarding the acceptance of technical assessment for a substitute for a Regents exam

8. Work Based Learning Updated guide in final editing Online based document SED, DOL, WCB, WECA

9. APPR Teacher Evaluation Student Learning Objective 60% Principal observations 20% Student growth 20% Locally selected measures Engage NY slohelp@mail.nysed.gov

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