Training+Offerings


 * *September 24 - "A Workforce Retooled - Playing Nice With 4 Generations in the Sandbox" training (presented by Lori Hopp) at Hutchinson ESSDACK from 12:30-3:30PM ** Workshop description: We have never felt such dramatic diversity between generations as we do today in America's workforce. Our students, light years ahead of the rest of us in digital literacy, need to be prepared to enter a working world with new expectations and required soft skills that they may not have. This is an interactive workshop that will provide opportunities for participants to share their experience with the various generations, and will provide strategies for preparing students to enter the working world poised for success.


 * *September 25 - Improving CTE Programs annual training at Great Bend ESSDACK from 8:30-11:30AM (presented by Clelia McCrory) ** Workshop description: The Improving VE-2 (CTE) Programs training assumes that the CTE teacher knows some about funded CTE programs but needs to know what has changed or is being emphasized to be part of strong funded programs. This is my annual update offered locally.
 * and then "A Workforce Retooled - Playing Nice with 4 Generations in the Sandbox" training (presented by Lori Hopp) from 12:30-3:30PM the same day at Great Bend. ** (see September 24th listing for workshop description)


 * September 26 -Beginning VE-2 (CTE) Programs training (presented by Mrs. Clelia McCrory) 8:30-11:30AM at Hutchinson ESSDACK ** Workshop description: The Beginning VE-2 Programs training assumes that the CTE teacher knows nothing about setting up a funded CTE program and walks them through step-by-step on how to develop a funded program (now becoming career pathway applications). This training is also good for the new CTE teacher who is taking over a funded program!
 * and then Improving CTE Programs training at Hutchinson ESSDACK 12:30-3:30PM (presented by Mrs. Clelia McCrory) ** (see September 25 for workshop description since it is being offered at Great Bend first this year and then repeated at Hutchinson.)


 * You might want to note on your calendar that KSDE is offering the Kansas Career Cluster Institute from February 23-25 in Wichita. More details later! **


 * Agriculture and Health areas ** began filing KSDE Career Pathway applications last year and then the remainder of the schools will file these areas of career pathway applications this year. Career Pathway applications can be filed between November 15-March 15th by districts with an approximate 8-week turnaround at KSDE on approval/disapproval of the paperwork filed. They are planning to move to an automated system in the future!


 * Trade and Industry areas ** will begin filing Career Pathway applications during 2008-2009 or can wait until 2009-2010 to file their pathway applications. The remaining career pathways will be applied for during the next few years so that all pathways that will be in your school will be filed by March 15, 2012 for implementation during the 2012-2013 school year. After reading the above information, you have probably realized that KSDE is providing a two-year opportunity to file for a pathway once a pathway has been developed at KSDE and released. Lori and I will attend the KSDE CTE administrators meeting regarding Perkins/CTE on August 28th and will include information from that meeting in our ESSDACK updates this fall.

As you probably know, **KSDE and the State Board have been highly emphasizing the usage of career and technical education content with academics in new initiatives**. KSDE offered two rounds of stipends to get districts to attend a five-day training along with 5 days of follow-up work days during 2008 and 2009. **Several of the superintendents indicated that they would prefer a more concentrated delivery along with significant service center supports that are offered locally** to help districts actually implement the academic integration initiative that is being stressed by KSDE (while minimizing teacher days gone from the classroom). **ESSDACK listened and has designed a four-day at Hutchinson ESSDACK study group to occur during 2008-2009 in which districts will send a 2-4 person team to work with specialists to develop the integrated lessons using career and technical standards and core academic standards. Since KSDE wants to see schools eventually integrate math, literacy, and science, we have decided to integrate all three into our specialist and participant-developed lessons as we create the study group database that will share the lessons developed by all participants for the use by all participants through a password-protected system rather than just focusing on math with CTE. Here's the main details you need to know:** *integrate the 16 career clusters with academic content standards in math, language arts, and science *increase student engagement through connected relevance to career skills *address the most most challenging state assessed indicators in the academic core areas *create a coordinated academic and career-and-technical education delivery system *develop collaborative relationships within district and throughout the state ***develop a database of integrated projects for use by all participants** (I'm hoping that this collaborative effort can significantly reduce individual district work time while participating districts have access to a large bank of lessons that will continue to grow over time!) ESSDACK Specialists Renee Smith (Math), Kristi Orcutt (Literacy), Bentley Richert (Science) and Clelia McCrory (CTE) will be working with this study and will provide technical assistance during this study group training. John Jones is already setting up the database portal using the lesson plan template and indexing search engines so that participants' work time can be organized and productive! **Participants will bring their laptops with wireless capability wherever possible along with a flashdrive to be used to transfer information to the online database! ESSDACK will also make available some laptops to use during the study group. The lesson plans will be developed in Word format using a template form.** We'd be glad to answer questions you might have about this! Please contact ESSDACK to enroll/ask questions at 620-663-9566 or utilize the ESSDACK online GO SIGN ME UP tool.
 * ESSDACK Academic Integration with CTE Study Group: **
 * TARGET AUDIENCE: ** VE-2/CTE weighted funding teachers, high school core area instructors working as partners
 * WHEN: ** (Mondays) November 3, November 24, January 26, and February 9 (the last date was changed from the earlier announcement to superintendents due to the original planned date conflicting with the KSDE Career Clusters Institute)
 * COST: ** 2 People $480; 3-4 People $660 (larger districts may want to send multiple teams) (strongly suggest at least 1 academic and 1CTE teacher attend as a working pair)
 * This Curriculum Development Project Will: **

You might want to print out this e-mail to use as you plan your 2008-2009 professional development. I anticipate that ESSDACK will need to set up an additional set of dates for another group of participants desiring to take the study group hands-on training and we are searching the calendar for those dates at this time! Hopefully, having this information on one document will help ESSDACK serve your needs!

Mrs. Clelia McCrory, ESSDACK Grants/CTE