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Looking forward to joining you at the Meeting of the Minds in Monterrey! Come on by my session on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the New World of Work Tuesday 9/4 at 9:00 a.m. or on Wednesday, September 5th, come and learn about the $164 million extended to K12 for the Strong Workforce Program at 2:45.
In response to the growing demand for expanding collaboration and aligning systems, we are pleased and proud to announce our partnership with the Education Workforce Alliance.
Governor Jerry Brown's May Revise supports California Community College's Vision for Success
The Budget includes total funding of 33.9 billion ($18.8 billion General Fund and local property tax and $15.1 billion other funds) for all higher education entities in 2018-2019.
The interactive graphic below shows how the funding increase of $3.2 billion approved by the state Legislature will be spent. For cells with a spending breakdown available, you can click to zoom into that spending category. Click on the top label to zoom out and go back to the previous level. Hover on small cells to see a description. For more detailed information, see the text below the graphic.
Educators and industry leaders will have an opportunity to explore dozens of student-led projects that demonstrate how OC Pathways and its community partners are leading the next generation toward high-demand, high-skill and high-wage careers at the second annual OC Pathways Showcase, featuring a keynote presentation by Virgin Galactic Vice President of Program Development Tim Buzza.
Approximately 300 guests are expected to attend this year’s showcase, which will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at the Marconi Automotive Museum.
Buzza, responsible for managing the development and operation of Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne satellite launch vehicle, will be joined by Propulsion Engineer Nicole Lewis. The event will also feature the creators of the PBS documentary series “Roadtrip Nation,” who have traveled the globe to learn how individuals transform passions into careers.
WHAT: The second annual OC Pathways Showcase
WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016
WHERE: Marconi Automotive Museum, 1302 Industrial Drive, Tustin
Effective, July, 2016 Amalia (Amy) Kaufman will be leading the OC Pathways initiative as Executive Director.
OC Pathways connects educators and industry leaders to equip students for college and career success. Partners develop coursework that combines rigorous academics with career preparation in such target sectors as health care/biotechnology, engineering/advanced manufacturing and information technology/digital media. This countywide project also creates work-based learning opportunities for students and empowers educators with 21st-century learning strategies.
Led by the Orange County Department of Education and Saddleback College, OC Pathways was initiated through a 2014 grant from the California Department of Education. The collaborative now comprises 14 school districts, nine community colleges, multiple universities, numerous regional agencies and scores of industry and community partners working together to prepare Orange County students for high-demand, high-skill and high-wage careers.
Funded through a grant from the California Department of Education, OC Pathways is building a regional infrastructure to support diverse career pathways. The focus of this initiative is on developing pathways in high-need, high-wage, high-skill STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) sectors vital to the regional economy.
Across the nation, state leaders are exploring ways to better connect academic learning with career aspirations and workforce needs. One promising strategy is a career pathways system,a coordinated system of programs and services that support and guide an individual in the transition from education to the workforce. Historically in a workforce development strategy, education stakeholders are increasingly looking to career pathways as a way to improve student outcomes and to help set graduates on a path for success after high school. This Facilitator’s Guide, developed by the College and Career Readiness and Success Center (CCRS Center), is designed to provide state education agency (SEA) staff with a process and resources for designing or strengthening a career pathways system in collaboration with other vested state stakeholders.
http://www.ccrscenter.org/sites/default/files/CareerPathways_Chapter1_FacilitatorsGuide.pdf
Proud to be part of this event! These students are awesome!! #cue2016 #cueStudentPower co-sponsored by the Orange County Department of Education - Assistant Superintendent, Dr. Christine Olmstead welcomes everyone to CUE Student Powered Showcase.http://bitly.com/CUEStudentShowcase
Aligning secondary and postsecondary pathways is key! @OCpathwaystrust #careerpathways @OCDeptofEd @SaddlebackColl @WorkforceVan
California faces a confounding juxtaposition (one shared with most other states): thousands of unemployed or underemployed workers living side-by-side with thousands of unfilled jobs.
The great chasm between the two is the skills gap; available workers don’t have the skills that employers need. The gap is wide in California today and isn’t showing signs of narrowing, as projections say that by 2025, 30 percent of all job openings in California (a total of 1.9 million jobs) will require some type of middle-skills training—postsecondary education short of a four-year degree—and the state is expected to fall one million short. We’re not keeping pace, and our residents, companies and economy are at risk.
To address this shortfall in middle-skills workers, the California Community College Board of Governors sponsored the Task Force on Workforce, Job Creation and a Strong Economy, a collection of industry, labor, workforce and economic development, and education representatives. Through extensive input of stakeholders around the state, we uncovered seven broad areas that our college system can address to help close our skills gap.
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From the Desk of Dr. Al Mijares, Orange County Superintendent of Schools
On a cool December morning, in a historic airplane hangar at the Orange County Great Park, some of the region’s top educators and business leaders gathered for a very special birthday party.
OC Pathways, an initiative that brings together schools, colleges and businesses to create new career paths in targeted industry sectors, was celebrating its first year — and what a year it’s been.
Over the past 12 months, more than 8,600 high school students have enrolled in OC Pathways programs, receiving career preparation in the fields of health care, biotechnology, engineering, advanced manufacturing, information technology and digital media. In our community colleges, more than 12,500 students have participated in OC Pathways coursework, earning roughly 600 certificates and 85 degrees.
Led by the Orange County Department of Education and Saddleback College, OC Pathways was launched in 2014 through a California Department of Education grant. Along with its efforts to partner schools and colleges with industry leaders, the project creates work-based learning opportunities for students — these include internships and mentorship — and empowers educators with innovative teaching strategies.
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By Carolyn Sykora 1/7/2016
Do today’s students need to be empowered learners, knowledge constructors, innovative designers? Should they be computational thinkers and global collaborators?
Many of you believe they should.
Today, ISTE is releasing the first draft of the new ISTE Standards for Students. Since we launched the standards refresh at ISTE 2015 in June, educators have shared feedback during face-to-face forums, in virtual meetings and via online surveys. The draft document represents the ideas, thoughts and opinions of hundreds of educators from nearly all 50 U.S. states and multiple countries.
We rely on wisdom from the field to update the standards and are grateful to the individuals who have participated so far.
But we’re not finished yet.
Student voice and choice has emerged in the refresh process as a key need. In that spirit, we want to hear from students, and we’re hoping you can help us do that by leading a refresh session for students. If you’re interested, contact Sarah Stoeckl, ISTE’s senior project manager for the Standards Department. She can also help you set up a session for educators if you’d like to help with that.
No time to hold a session? Below are several other ways you can help out.
Carolyn Sykora is ISTE's senior director of the Standards Department.
The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below.
I sit here in the dark, in the quiet of my bedroom, my husband sleeping soundly next to me, while my fingertips tap, tap, tap away on my iPad. It is the first morning of daylight savings time and my body clock thinks it is later than the digital clock claims as truth. How perfect to use this 'extra' hour to celebrate light beams and the 100 year anniversary of the publication of Einstein's Theory of Relativity!
As Walter Isaacson, author of the NY Times article "The Light Beam Rider" beautifully writes, "Einstein’s first great thought experiment came when he was about 16. He had run away from his school in Germany, which he hated because it emphasized rote learning rather than visual imagination, and enrolled in a Swiss village school based on the educational philosophy of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who believed in encouraging students to visualize concepts. While there, Einstein tried to picture what it would be like to travel so fast that you caught up with a light beam...Einstein relished what he called Gedankenexperimente, ideas that he twirled around in his head rather than in a lab. That’s what teachers call daydreaming, but if you’re Einstein you get to call them Gedankenexperimente. As these thought experiments remind us, creativity is based on imagination. If we hope to inspire kids to love science, we need to do more than drill them in math and memorized formulas. We should stimulate their minds’ eyes as well. Even let them daydream. "
Enjoy the full article here: http://nyti.ms/1N4pwJX
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The 2015 California Community College Association for Occupational Education Fall Conference brought together teachers, administrators, school counselors and thought leaders from across the state of California. The conference theme was "Aligning Pathways for a Strong Economy". The closing session was a panel discussion deftly and humorously guided by Eva Jimenez, Shasta College and Panel Moderator and Tony Teng, Saddleback College, Poll Moderator. Panel members shared thinking and lessons learned from the California Career Pathways Trust Grant on transforming and reforming of career pathways, effective practices and the challenges of building sustainable collaborations to effect long term career pathways change.
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It’s no secret that the STEM skills gap is real and growing. With the school year geting under way, now is an opportune time for employers to double down and solve that problem where it begins—in K–12 education. One of the best ways to do that is by getting employees engaged in providing work-based learning experiences for students.
For a consultation on how you can bring work-based learning opportunities to all of your students, contact me @kaufprof or amalia@amaliakaufman.com You can also find me on LinkedIn
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It was a privilege to be a presenter at the New York State Association for Career and Technical Education's 2015 CTE Professional Organization Leadership Seminar @nycctecenter #nyscteseminar @nysacte Great information shared today is below:
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June 17, 2015
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Association for Career and Technical Education Kicks off Microdocs Initiative, Announces Opportunity for Expansion
Alexandria, Virginia - The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) today launched its Microdocs initiative, a broad and innovative series of films designed to inspire students to follow their passions through career and technical education (CTE). These brief documentary-style videos tell the true stories of individuals who enriched their lives and achieved their goals through high-quality CTE, which gave them the skills and guidance they needed to pursue careers in growing fields. ACTE's Microdocs were conceived with America's students in mind. The full library of videos will be distributed to educators, parents and career and guidance counselors who can then share these stories with young people so that they can transform their education and follow their interests in their school's CTE classrooms.
"The release of ACTE's microdocumentaries kicks off a truly groundbreaking effort for CTE students and professionals, and I'm excited to be a part of it," said ACTE Executive Director LeAnn Wilson. "By sharing these engaging student success stories with their peers, we can show young people a career path that they might never have had the chance to learn about, as well as spark an interest that could change their lives."
The documentaries spotlight students and educators with experience in a wide range of CTE disciplines and skills, from 3-D printing in advanced manufacturing to cutting edge technologies in green energy. Throughout the summer, ACTE will distribute the first six videos in the series; however, the Microdocs initiative doesn't end there.
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