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KEYNOTE
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Vocational, Career and Technical
EducationProfessional Conference

• Anchorage School District

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International Center for Leadership in Education

• Dr. Richard D. Jones

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Hebrew proverb

• Do not confine your children to your own
  learning, for they were born in another time.

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Personality Quiz
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Hawaii
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New York
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Challenges to CTE

• Accelerating Technology
• Economic Upheaval
• Dealing with High-Stakes Accountability
• Student Change

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Challenges to CTE

• Accelerating Technology
• Economic Upheaval
• Dealing with High-Stakes Accountability
• Student Change

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• Information Technology
• Processing Power
• Bugging the World
• Communications

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Number Crunching Moores Law
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Number Crunching Gates Law
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• Smart Orb

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Projection Keyboard
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• Information Technology
• Processing Power
• Bugging the World
• Communications

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• Information Technology
• Processing Power
• Bugging the World
• Communications

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• Bio Technology
• Medical
• Agriculture

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Ruth Fresmon, The New York Times
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• Bio Technology
• Medical
• Agriculture
• Ethical ??

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• Nano Technology
• Atom Up

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2000
Info Tech
Nano Tech
Bio Tech
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Info Tech
2003
Nano Tech
Bio Tech
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Info Tech
2008
Nano Tech
Bio Tech
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Mommy, this string doesnt work, do you have any
fiber optic cable?
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Challenges to CTE

• Accelerating Technology
• Economic Upheaval
• Dealing with High-Stakes Accountability
• Student Change

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Employment 1970s

• High Skill
• Low Skill

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Employment 1990s

• High Skill
• Low Skill

Semi Skill
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Employment 2010

• High Skill
• Low Skill

Semi Skill
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1970s 1990s 2010
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Challenges to CTE

• Accelerating Technology
• Economic Upheaval
• Dealing with High-Stakes Accountability
• Student Change

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Problem with High Stakes Testing

• Single Measures
• Immature Tests
• Conflicting Purposes
• Mismatch with Teaching

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Challenges to CTE

• Accelerating Technology
• Economic Upheaval
• Dealing with High-Stakes Accountability
• Student Change

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Minority vs. Majority

• Hispanic 12 to 25 (2025)
• Ph.D Science and Engineering
• 33 Asian, 2 African-American 1 Hispanic

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Gender Gap
Male Female

• Special Education 70 30

• 4 Year College Degree 43 57

• Masters 42 58

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Gender Gap
Boy vs. Girl

• Attention Deficit 4 Times Greater
• Drop Out 30 More Likely
• Violent Crime 85 More Likely
• Suicide 6 Times as Likely

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Challenges to CTE

• Accelerating Technology
• Economic Upheaval
• Dealing with High-Stakes Accountability
• Student Change

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Your Reaction?????
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Margaret Mead

• Never doubt that a small group of citizens can
  change the world. Indeed it is the only thing
  that ever has.

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Successful School Response
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Components of Successful School Reform

• Create a culture that embraces a rigorous and
  relevant curriculum
• Set high expectations that are monitored for
  students continuous improvement
• Use data to provide clear unwavering focus
• Provide students real-world applications
• Create multiple pathways to rigor and relevance

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Components of Successful School Reform

• Create a culture that embraces a rigorous and
  relevant curriculum
• Set high expectations that are monitored for
  students continuous improvement
• Use data to provide clear unwavering focus
• Provide students real-world applications
• Create multiple pathways to rigor and relevance

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Components of Successful School Reform

• 6. Create a framework to organize curriculum
  that drives instruction
• 7. Sustained professional development that is
  focused
• 8. Obtain and leverage parent and community
  involvement
• 9. Maintain safe and orderly schools.
• 10. Offer effective leadership development.

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Rigor
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Relevance
My only skill is taking tests.
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All Students
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• Rigor
• Relevance
• All students

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Knowledge Taxonomy

• 1. Awareness
• 2. Comprehension
• 3. Application
• 4. Analysis
• 5. Synthesis
• 6. Evaluation

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Application Model

• 1. Knowledge in one discipline
• 2. Application within discipline
• 3. Application across disciplines
• 4. Application to real-world predictable
  situations
• 5. Application to real-world unpredictable
  situations

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Rigor/Relevance Framework
Knowledge
Application
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2
3
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Rigor/Relevance Framework
KNOWLEDGE
D
C
B
A
A P P L I C A T I O N
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Teaching
VS.
Learning
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• Rigor
• Relevance
• All students

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CTE- What doesnt change

• External standards
• Focus on total student needs
• Learn through application
• Not limited to classroom/lab
• Connection with community

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Myths of CTE

• CTE is separate
• CTE is lower level
• CTE is for some students

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Myths of CTE

• CTE is separate
• CTE is lower level
• CTE is for some students

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Coping With State Standards
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McREL

• Needed Time

15,465
Hours
Available Time
9,042
Hours
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Teachers struggling to teach an overloaded
curriculum!
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Teaching
VS.
Standards
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International Center for Leadership in Education

• Curriculum Survey

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Career and Technical Education
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Myths of CTE

• CTE is separate
• CTE is lower level
• CTE is for some students

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Lexile Framework

• Independent measure
• 200 to 2000
• Books, Tests, Students
• www.lexile.com

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Reading RequirementsFindings

• Reading is important
• Reading for employment is the highest

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Lexile Literature

• 1500 - On Ancient Medicine
• 1400 - The Scarlet Letter
• 1300 - Brown vs. Board of Ed.
• 1200 - War and Peace
• 1100 - Pride and Prejudice
• 1000 - Black Beauty
• 900 - Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders
• 800 - The Adventures of Pinocchio
• 700 - Bunnicula A Rabbit Tale of Mystery
• 600 - A Baby Sister for Frances
• 500 - The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth
• 400 - Frog and Toad are Friends
• 300 - Cliffords Manners

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Personal Use

• Aetna Health Care Form 1360
• Medical Insurance Benefit Book 1280
• Application for Student Loan 1270
• Federal Tax Form W-4 1260
• Installing Your Child Safety Seat 1170
• Microsoft Windows User Manual 1150
• G.M. Protection Plan 1150
• CD DVD Player Instructions 1080

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Newspapers

• Reuters 1440
• NY Times 1380
• Washington Post 1350
• Wall Street Journal 1320
• Chicago Tribune 1310
• Associated Press 1310
• USA Today 1200

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Reading Instruction
Reading in the Content Area
Learn to Read
Read to Learn
K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 . . .
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Reading Comparison
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Reading Comparison
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Reading Comparison
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Reading Comparison
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Reading Comparison
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Reading Comparison
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Construction
 
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Reading Requirements Research

• Ag/Natural Resources 1510
• Transportation/Distr./Log. 1370
• Architecture/Construction 1350
• Manufacturing 1330
• Retail/Wholesale 1320
• Business and Admin. 1300
• Law/Public Safety 1300
• Scientific Research/Engr. 1260
• Arts/AV Tech/Comm. 1200
• Health Services 1200
• Human Services 1140
• Information Tech 1100

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Myths of CTE

• CTE is separate
• CTE is lower level
• CTE is for some students

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Willard Wirtz

• There arent two worlds -- education and work,
  there is one world -- life

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In schools the status quo persists!
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New SAT - 2005

• More Application
• New Writing Section
• Expand Critical Reading for Information
• More Achievement
• Base on three years of Math
• Higher Level Math Skills
• Less Aptitude
• Eliminate analogies
• Eliminate simple math reasoning

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NYS Math A Question June 2003
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Myths of CTE

• CTE is separate
• CTE is lower level
• CTE is for some students

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Staying on the Cutting Edge

• Recognize the need for change

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Staying on the Cutting Edge

• Recognize the need for change
• Focus on the real goals

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Look into the future through the eyes of a child?
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Staying on the Cutting Edge

• Recognize the need for change
• Focus on the real goals
• Keep yourself learning

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Sometimes, I feel like I know less today than I
did yesterday.
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Staying on the Cutting Edge

• Recognize the need for change
• Focus on the real goals
• Keep yourself learning
• Share with others

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Are you still making allof the decisions?
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Staying on the Cutting Edge

• Recognize the need for change
• Focus on the real goals
• Keep yourself learning
• Share with others
• Dont follow others blindly

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Lovers never send form letters.
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Further Information http//dickjones.us Or http
//www.natpd.com
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Keeping Balance in Your Life