| Announcements: November 20, 2007 - January 15, 2008 | |||||
Tech Prep Tuesday Central Texas Tech Prep Consortium Transition and Transfer January 15, 2008 Happy New Year! Upcoming Activities As the new semester begins, consortium staff members are planning activities for the spring. Events in the early planning stages include a Health Science Cluster/Articulation meeting and a workshop for counselors, CTE teachers and administrators featuring business and industry and workforce development issues. Also under consideration is a contextual learning workshop this summer featuring Theresa Spangler. Please let us know as soon as possible your suggestions on dates for these events as well as dates to avoid. Area Workshops of Interest to Educators Education Open Source Conference – January 29-31, 2008 – Austin Renaissance Hotel Agenda now available at www.ctat.org/events/eos-agenda.html Academic Innovations - Successful Strategies for Freshman Transition Workshop – February 21, 2008 – San Antonio. See https://secure.academicinnovations.com/workshops for more information. 2008 Connections for Student Success Conference – Understanding Poverty – featuring Dr. Ruby Payne – June 9, 2008 – Hyatt Regency Town Lake in Austin. Presented by Capital Area Tech Prep and Region XIII Education Service Center. Visit http://ecampus.esc13.net. Workshop ID: SU0810846. Articulation Workshop Follow-up Thank you to all who participated in the November local articulation workshop. It was a wonderful opportunity for secondary teachers and postsecondary faculty to look at adding and updating local articulation agreements. Details of the event are listed on the Central Texas Tech Prep Consortium website at www.centraltexastechprep.com. Click on the “News” tab and then “Local Articulation Workshop Summary”. ============
The Central Texas Tech Prep Consortium organized a Local Articulation Workshop that was held November 8, 2007, at Central Texas College in Killeen. Approximately 60 secondary teachers from 12 school districts attended. Districts represented included Bartlett, Belton, Copperas Cove, Gatesville, Granger, Hamilton, Jonesboro, Killeen, Lampasas, Temple, Thorndale, and Troy. Articulation agreements were initiated and/or updated for both Central Texas College and Temple College. Faculty representatives from Central Texas College included: Jack Van Dorn, Business Management; Herb Maglietta, Computer-Aided Design; Dennis Ford, Computer Science; Jon Cella, Criminal Justice; Gordon Bacon, Early Childhood Professions; Rick Hindman, Hospitality/Culinary; Billy Hazzard, Industrial Technology; and Jerrie Cleaver, Office Technology. Faculty representatives from Temple College included: Hal Ward, Business Management; Gail Cox, Child Development; Talma Botts, Computer Information Systems; and Steve Taylor, Computer-Aided Design. Several administrators, counselors and advisors attended as well. In all, over 80 people participated. Central Texas College provided refreshments for attendees. There were approximately 65 articulation agreements that were initiated or updated at the workshop. The consortium will send many of the articulation agreements established, along with a six year plan for each area, to the state this spring for approval in order to add or create Tech Prep programs for many districts. The addition of Tech Prep programs will allow more opportunities for awarding articulated credit at the college level and will allow these districts the opportunity to code more students as a “3” in PEIMS. ============
Tech Prep Tuesday Central Texas Tech Prep Consortium Transition and Transfer December 11, 2007 Local Articulation Agreement in Ag Science Area The Ag Science contact at Central Texas College, Zhan Aljoe, was unable to attend the local articulation workshop held on November 8th; however, he has asked the consortium to gather information on those districts that would like to create an agreement in the Ag Science area so that he can personally contact them to arrange a day and time to meet. Districts interested in creating local articulation agreements in the Ag Science area with Central Texas College need to contact Misty Harrell, mharrell@templejc.edu or 254-298-8483, by December 13th, with the following information: 1. District 2. Name of individual(s) 3. Courses that are being offered at your district in the Ag Science area 4. Phone number for individual 5. Email address for each individual Four by Four Curriculum Information Rules clarifying the revised graduation requirements approved last year were adopted by the State Board of Education at the November 2007 meeting. These changes reflect the addition of a fourth credit of math and a fourth credit of science and affect the Recommended High School Program and the Distinguished Achievement Program as mandated by House Bill 1, 79th Texas Legislature. Implementation of the new graduation requirements is required beginning in school year 2007-2008, and is applicable to students entering ninth grade this year. The amendments change the number of credits required for graduation under these programs from 24 to 26. To learn more about the graduation requirements please visit the links at the following website: www.tea.state.tx.us/curriculum/fourbyfour.html. Happy Holidays from the Tech Prep Staff! Sherry, Misty, Carol ============
Tech Prep Tuesday Central Texas Tech Prep Consortium Transition and Transfer November 27, 2007 Workshop Opportunity in Waco: Special Populations & What Really Works The Heart of Texas Tech Prep Consortium is sponsoring a workshop on special populations Tuesday, December 4, from 8:30 AM to Noon, at the McLennan Community College Conference Center. CTE teachers, counselors and administrators will learn about tools and strategies geared for special population students. Speaker will be Dr. Tracy Teaff of the University of North Texas, Dallas Campus. For a workshop flyer and registration form, email Sherry Hollinger at shollin@templejc.edu. Registration deadline is Thursday, November 29. ============
Tech Prep Tuesday Central Texas Tech Prep Consortium Transition and Transfer November 20, 2007 AchieveTexas – Counselors are the Key AchieveTexas is a college and career initiative designed to enable students to achieve success by preparing them for secondary and postsecondary opportunities and meaningful employment. Although initially presented to high school career and technology educators, the program vision includes all grades as well as postsecondary education. In elementary school, the focus will be on career awareness. Middle school students will have opportunities for career exploration, while high school students will select an initial career cluster and program of study. With postsecondary education or training, students will continue career preparation. Continuing education and career advancement are also parts of the initiative. With AchieveTexas, resources are organized by cluster and will be integrated throughout the curriculum. Counselors will be the key to the success of the program. Counselor resource kits for the AchieveTexas program have been mailed to the Education Service Centers for distribution to counselors. Kits include a resource guide, CD, poster and one of each of the 16 career cluster college and career planning guides. The counselor resource guides give an overall look at AchieveTexas, offer steps for creating a Texas Achievement Plan, or TAP, list the 16 career clusters and the programs of study as well as offer other implementation resources for the program. Here are several related resources: AchieveTexas www.achievetexas.org States’ Career Cluster Initiative www.careerclusters.org Texas Counselors’ Network www.texascounselorsnet.org Happy Thanksgiving! ============ |
