1. Welcome Warren County Tech Center “The Key to Your Future”
Eric T. Keeling, Principal

2. How does the Tech Center address career readiness?
Technical Skills
KOSSA Testing
National Certifications: CNA, ASE, AWS, DOT, NCCER, Microsoft Plus, Net Plus, etc.
Academic Skills
Compass Testing
Work Keys
Employability Skills
Career Pathways
Be The Change

3. Positive Initiatives “Be the Change” Student of the Month
Celebrate Success---Newspaper/Newsletter
Dual Credit—SKYCTC
Middle Grades Career Exploration
Core Content Curriculum Initiative
Decrease Dropout Rate
Increase Graduation Rate
Warren County Early College Academy

4. Community Involvement
Open House/Close the Deal
Awards Night
Summer Camp for Elementary
Pennies for Patients
Buddy Walk
Can Food Drive
American Red Cross Blood Drive
Customized Training
Co-op Opportunities
Apprenticeships

5. Career Readiness
Career Readiness is for ALL students and consists of three elements:
Core academic communications and math skills.
Employability skills
Technical and job specific skills

6. Career Ready Academic Components
Work Keys---Silver Certificate (score of 4 or higher on Applied Math, Locating Information, and Reading for Information)
Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) (reduced from 55) Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT)

7. Career Ready Technical Component
KOSSA—70 or higher
Industry Certificates
ASE—Automotive
NCCER—Carpentry
CNA—Health Sciences
A+, Net plus----Information Technology
DOT/AWS--Welding

8. Why worry about College and Career Readiness?
45.9 % Enter college with developmental needs
35.4 % Enter college with developmental needs in math.
28.6% Enter college with developmental needs in English.

9. Career Readiness Overview
Senior Graduates—43,184
Senior Preparatory Students—18,769
Senior Career Ready Students—3,090
Percentage of Preparatory Seniors Career Ready---16%
Percentage of Senior Graduates Career Ready----7%

10. ASVAB/ Work Keys Graduating Preparatory Seniors—18,769
Work Keys Passed—3,546
ASVAB Passed—2,349
Passed Both--548

11. Level of Education
54.4% Enter Post-Secondary Education After High School
GED—9,285 in Kentucky
59.4 High School Diploma or Less
18.5% Some College
4.9% Associate Degree
17.1% Bachelor’s Degree

12. How do we target the students in the middle?
ILP and Career Track
Kinesthetic Learners
2.5 G.P. A. or higher
Career Pathway
(97% of CTE Preparatory students graduate from high school)
80% in the stands/20% on the floor
63.3 % “At Risk”

13. Career Track Students 4th Math Credit
Welding, Construction, & Automotive (completer status)
Science credit in Health Sciences
Anatomy Physiology
Medical Math
Dual credit for Math 150 & English 101
Dual credit in all programs

14. Warren County Tech Center Early College Academy
Partnership with South Central KY Community and Technical College
1+1 in Robotics and Automation
2+2 in Engineering with SKYCTC to WKU
Partnerships with local district
Warren County Tech Center Educational Foundation

15. How does the Early College Academy work?
Compass exam at beginning of Junior year
Admission to SKYCTC
Math 150 & Eng 200 in fall of Senior year
Comm 254 and Apprenticeship in the spring of senior year.
Dual credit with SKYCTC
Tuition?

16. So What????? 4500 Skilled Labor Shortage by 2016
Additional 4500 Skill Labor Shortage by 2020
Skilled Labor Shortage in Wood Manufacturing and Transportation.
How do we continue to attract industry to Warren County without the workforce?

17. How do we get there? Better partnerships with local district
Involvement in the ILP process earlier
Middle school students touring our programs
Increased enrollment
Stronger relationships with business and industry
Business and Industry involvement and support
Work Based Learning

18. Warren County Tech Center
Work Ethics/Magna
Work Keys: 80%
KOSSA: 52%
Industry Certification:
Welding AWS: 94%
Construction NCCER: 100%
Health Sciences SRNA: 90% May 15
Automotive ASE: Testing 22 May 15
Information Technology A+: June
Career Ready: 63%

19. Stone Soup
Warren County Tech Center Early College Academy for Robotics and Automation
Partnerships
Be the Change
Work Ethics Grades
Funding
Equipment
Supplies
Salaries
Employment

20. Next Steps……… Grant Applications Develop Internship Agreements
Paradigm shift about CTE and its role in linking the educational and the manufacturing community.
Financial Support from Manufacturing Community.
Suggestions…….