Career and Technical Education

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Career and Technical Education

• Selling the Idea
• Building Connections for Catawba Countys
  Future Ready Students

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What If?

• All students are encouraged to participate in
  CTE.
• All parents recognized how CTE impacts
  achievement and aids in meeting career goals.
• Business and community impacted our schools by
  providing a seamless transition to career goals.

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CTE is theBridge to Success
Then. . . .
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CTESelling the Idea

• More than 1.2 million US students did not
  graduate in 2007.
• Todays high school grads will need some college
  to gain access to decent-paying careers.
• Those without high school diploma will face a
  bleak labor market prospect.

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North Carolinas Overlooked

• NCs Dropouts
• For year 2006 4.4
• Total for 2006 22,000
• For a decade that is 220,000
• Enough dropouts to populate an mid-sized city
  every decade.

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Its More Than Just Dropouts

• How can the United States continue to compete in
  a global economy if the entering workforce is
  made up of high school graduates who lack the
  skills they need and college graduates who are
  labeled adequate rather than excellent?
• Are They Really Ready to Work, EDWeek 2007

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Success Favors the Prepared Mind.
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Educational Attainment
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Estimated NC Total Employment 2017
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• Nothing is more important to the nation and its
  economy than the education level of its citizens
  and the will to put it to use.
• Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, 2008.

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Selling the IdeaA Trend is not a Destiny

• Our challenge is to create a skilled workforce,
  creating a new destiny for Catawba County.
• If we do nothing, then we will follow the trend.
• Planning for action now, will help create a
  prosperous future.

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Heres What We Know

• CTE is the best kept secret in Catawba County.
• The people who need to know what CTE is or what
  it does, dont know.
• CTE must convince all stakeholders that it brings
  value and makes a difference.
• To prosper economically, the county, the state,
  and the nation need CTE.

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CTE is theBridge to Success
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Why Build the Bridge?

• CTE graduates earn 10 more than graduates of
  academic programs.
• CTE concentrators are 2 ½ times more likely to be
  employed.
• In a Gates Foundation report, 81 of students who
  dropped out said that more real world learning
  would have influenced them to stay in school.

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Support the Bridge

• Align content with
• The standard course of studyand beyond.
• The 16 career clusters.
• Labor market needs and economic development
  goals.

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Bridge Connectors

• Increase the number of CTE completers and future
  ready students
• Engage students by incorporating their interests
  and academics into your curriculum
• Emphasize 21st century career and work skills,
  and networking skills.
• Consistently emphasize math, science, technology,
  literacy, and engineering skills in CTE courses.

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Bridge Connectors

• Implement strategies based on creation and
  design.
• Stay up-to-date on new and emerging technologies.
• Develop problem solving, collaborative, and
  organization skills.
• Talk it up. Be a one-man PR machine for CTE.
• Say it! Career and Technical Education
• Your curriculum!
• Economic connection
• 16 Clusters
• Special programs and events

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What is the Answer?

• Prepare students
• Interests
• Academics
• Career and work skills
• Ability to network
• Create, create, create opportunities to make
  informed choices.

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• Incremental change is no longer good enough
  transformation is an imperative.

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16 Career Clusters
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Charlotte Regional Partnership