1. CTE CEO Effective Practices Moving the CTE Agenda Forward
CEO Webinar Series:
CTE CEO Effective Practices
and
Moving the CTE Agenda Forward
August 26, 2016
Presented by:
Dianne Van Hook, Ph.D.
Chancellor, Santa Clarita CCD
Van Ton-Quinlivan, Vice Chancellor
Workforce and Economic Development, CCCCO

2. Effective Practices for Linked Learning, Work Experience and
Internships

3. FOCUS
The development of career pathways in CTE that include linked learning in high school, leading to internships and apprenticeships for practical experience and training that result in high paying technical careers.

4. Linked Learning pathways
Prepare students for college, career, and life by integrating four core components:
Rigorous academics that prepare students to take credit-bearing college-level courses and be university admissible upon graduation from high school, maximize articulation between high school and postsecondary programs of study, and facilitate and accelerate completion of postsecondary credentials, certificates, and degrees.
Technical training that is embedded through a sequence of classes and integrated with academic content standards, aligned with career opportunities in a variety of high-need, high-skill occupations, including opportunities for stackable certificates, credentials, or degrees, where relevant.

5. Linked Learning pathways (continued)
Work-based learning sequences that reach from middle school career awareness and exploration into postsecondary training and education, providing opportunities to apply core academic content  and technical training, while developing the skills, competencies and dispositions that are critical to workplace success.
Comprehensive support services that are embedded as central components of a program of study, address unique needs of individual students, and include academic and socio-emotional supports, to ensure equity of access, opportunity, and success.

6. Characteristics of Successful Linked Learning Pathways:
Comprehensive, rigorous academics that feed into community college programs
Strong connections to postsecondary institutions to ensure a smooth transition after graduation
Trained and motivated teachers and school leaders
Productive partnerships with local industry and business to inform curriculum development and support work-based learning

7. Linked Learning Strategies
Examples of Non-Profits and Districts Using Linked Learning Strategies in their School to Career Implementation:
Career Ladders Project
Jobs for the Future-Regional Hubs of Excellence
Career Partnership Academies & NAF Academies
ConnectEd
LAUSDLinkedLearning

8. Employment Readiness Certificate Model applicable statewide
Targeted Outcomes
College Partners
Curriculum Alignment
Employment Readiness Certificate
Industry
Credential
Model applicable statewide
Replicability

9. Moving the CTE Agenda Forward:
Effective Practices

11. Considerations to Balance when Moving Forward
May overstep local control
Avoids a separate curriculum process for CTE
Cannot implement a one-size model for all districts/colleges
Focuses on speed at expense of quality
Applies yet another mandate
Respond Quickly
Increase Opportunities for Students
Increase Regional Collaboration
Improve Local Curriculum Processes

12. What are CEOs responsible to do?
The CEO Perspective –
What are CEOs responsible to do?
Certify that local approval processes are followed
Certify that curriculum meets all legal requirements
Certify that courses and programs can be offered for apportionment
Ensure that courses and programs are aligned with college mission, educational master plan & strategic plan
Ensure that programs are responsible and flexible to meet ever-changing work force needs

13. CEOs Best Practices
Communicate clearly with curriculum committee, Academic Senate, College President and Board of trustees
Keep current on substantive changes
Communicate with student services: CSSOs, Financial Aid
Actively participate in the development of the college mission, educational master plan & strategic plan

14. Moving the CTE Agenda Forward:
Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative (IEPI)
Partnership Resource Team Visits

15. How is IEPI Structured? Composition of Partnership
California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
College of the Canyons
Academic Senate
Foothill College
Chabot-Las Positas CCD
Representatives from 22 Statewide Organizations
Success Center for California Community Colleges
IEPI
Executive Committee
Advisory Committee
Professional Development
Workgroup
Technical Assistance Workgroup
Framework of Indicators Workgroup
Policy, Procedures, Practice Workgroup
How is IEPI Structured?
IEPI
Executive Committee
IEPI
Executive Committee
IEPI
Advisory Committee
IEPI
Advisory Committee

16. How Are the Partnership Resource Teams (PRTs) Providing Technical Assistance?
Not Just a Single Visit: Each Team Commits to 3 Visits or More As Needed. Designed to:
Understand Issues and Identify Scope of Support
Develop Ideas for Institution’s Innovation and Effectiveness Plan in Areas Such As:
Accreditation Issues
Integrated Planning
Board Governance
SLO Assessment Tools and Processes
Economic and Workforce Development
Follow-Up Support As Needed

17. How Colleges Get Involved with PRTs
COC CEO sent info to CEO list serve and additional personal contacts with CEOs
Presentations made at conferences on IEPI
Institution CEO completes short letter of interest to initiate visits
Participate on PRTs: Volunteer!
Current non-faculty survey:
Current faculty survey:

18. How Can Partnership Resource Teams Help with Plan Implementation?
Grants of Up to $200,000 As Seed Money
Follows Second Visit Generally
Expedite Implementation of Institution’s Innovation and Effectiveness Plan
Available Until Funds Run Out
Follow-Up Visits

19. So, What Difference Are the Partnership Resource Teams Making?
Advancing institutional effectiveness
Expediting implementation of plans through seed grants
Expanded capacity to provide technical assistance through PRT pool of experts

20. What’s New with PRTs? Mini-PRTs
An option that provides for quicker, more focused efforts.
Often will likely be 1 or 2 visits only.
Institutions receiving Mini-PRTs are eligible for mini-seed grants up to $75,000, even if they have had a full seed grant.
Topics can include any related to institutional effectiveness, including workforce and economic development.

21. What Is the Professional Learning Network?
Coordinated by the Success Center
Pulls Together Hundreds of Existing Resources by Topic (e.g. Integrated Planning, SLO Assessment, Board Governance, etc.), Highlighting Exemplary Practices
Check it out at pln.cccco.edu

22. Questions?