1. Strengthening Big Sky Pathways Retreat Day 2 Debra Mills, Director National Career Pathways Network

2. What’s Around the Corner?

3. Perkins & the Blueprint

4. “the blueprint”

6. Bottom line... Building capacity to integrate CTE Programs of Study (POS) into the broader career pathways system

7. With Perkins, the race for the $$$$$$ begins...

8. Accountability: Funding shift to competitive allocations Innovation: Not “gonna” but “done did it”

9. Zeroing IN: Secondary to Postsecondary

10. How can we make a smooth transition?

11. Bridging the Gap Curriculum Staff Development Sharing Resources Connections with Business/Industry Sharing Data

13. Lunch

14. Zeroing In: Employers & Advisory Committees

15. Resource

16. 16 Advisory committees are a quality control function of your program and are a tool for administration and faculty to “talk to the customer”

17. 17 Role of Advisory Committees Provide specifications for your program Ensure the quality of your graduates Define the exit points

18. 18 ADM & Faculty Role: Share information Learn from B/I/L Respond to Recommendations

19. Joint Advisory Committees Separate advisory committees support the individual programs at each institution Joint advisory committees support the pathway that overlays two or more institutions. 19

22. Rural Areas

24. Committees can look for ways to expand & enhance involvement of small businesses by having them leverage their connections with – Subcontractors – Suppliers – Other business contacts. Work through local chamber. Be sure to give small businesses plenty of recognition as many of them have lived in the community for years.

25. 25 Motivation for Members One of the best rewards for advisory committees is to ask for advice and then to respond to it.

26. 26 = Educator= Business

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28. 28 REVIVE Existing Advisory Committees Give them a task to help you with your program Have AC give you a data-driven report on how our graduates are doing as employees. Give AC a data-driven report on how YOUR students are doing in Math. What % of recent HS graduates does your program capture? GPA? Remediation rate? Retention?

29. 29 Revive AC: ED to B/I Academic & Technical Teams 9-14 Counselors/Advisors Staff Development LED by B/I Math applications in CTE Real world applications for academic instructors Open industry-based training to instructors

30. 30 Strategies from across the country Cluster (like industries) approach from the EDC Pathway Partners (Chamber M adopt instructor) Staff Dev delivered by B/I Joint Advisory Committees (sec & ps) Thinking outside the box (13-month Mfg program) Digital Communication B/I Tours for ALL faculty in a program (including gen ed)

31. 31 Advice for New Beginnings Business must provide leadership Relationships need to be built at ALL levels Think in SYSTEM terms – Academic & technical skills – Secondary & Postsecondary – Connect to existing entities (Chamber, EDC) Educate your community (gold-collar worker) Always focus on your mission (economic dev)

32. ASSIGNMENTS

33. Assignments School Site Teams (Strengthen) Advisory Committees (Connect) Partnering Inventory A.Pathway Coordinator Contact B.OPI Specialist Contact 1.School Sites Visits 2.Business/Industry Partnering 3.Community-based