Pathways to Graduation CTE Assistance

1. Pathways to Graduation CTE Assistance Charlie Crumb Charlie@spnet.us Cheryl Winstel Cheryl.winstel@nysed.gov 518-486-1547

2. NY CTE Technical Assistance Center In 2010, NYSED entered into a contract with the Successful Practices Network, Inc. to establish the Career and Technical Education Technical Assistance Center of New York (CTE TAC). The CTE TAC’s scope of work, developed in cooperation with NYSED, includes identifying and disseminating best practices in CTE and fostering an increase in the number of approved programs. As a result of that charge, the CTE TAC has engaged in reviews of selected approved programs in the Big Five School Districts, Local Education Agencies and Boards of Cooperative Educational Services.

3. CTE Technical Assistance Center Staffing • Director Tim Ott • Dr. Edward Shafer (now a senior consultant) • 4 Center Specialists • Dr. Constance Spohn • Peter McBride • Jerry Pedinotti • Tom Venezio • 5 Regional Staff • 1.5 FTE (NYC) – Marsha Iverson and Ted Gershon • 1FTE (LI and Yonkers) – Ellen Palazzo • 1 FTE (Southern tier) -- Vacant • 1 FTE (Western) – Charlie Crumb • 1 FTE (Central North East) -- Carol Ann Zygo

4. CTE Technical Assistance Center Work Plan • Improve CTE data collection to create an accurate picture of career and technical education program performance • Assist schools in the integration of the new national common core academic standards with CTE. • Expand CTE program approvals. • Use best practices in CTE for high school improvement. • Expand CTE programs and student leadership participation • Build relationships and networks to strengthen CTE.

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6. Technical Assistance Center • In the last year of a five year contract • Moving forward in this last year the TAC will continue supporting CTE programs in the state under the contracts 6 areas originally identified with a large focus on Multiple Graduation Pathways and CTE approvals and approval changes.

7. CTE Program Approval ProcessBased on the Board of Regents Nationally Recognized Plan 7

8. CTE Programs in NYS

9. Recent Sample of Districts Asking For CTE Technical Assistance in Western NY • East Aurora • Eden • Penn Yan • Orchard Park • Hamburg • Williamsville • Amherst • Dunkirk • Alden • West Seneca • Brockport • Clarence

10. College, Career and Citizenship Readiness Vision: College and Career Readiness in NYS will ensure that all students graduate high school able to succeed in postsecondary programs of study and the workforce; that they understand and demonstrate citizenship skills; and that they may meaningfully contribute to the economic and democratic well-being of our society. Goal: By 2015, NYS will offer all students an established set of assessment pathways that are grounded in the Common Core Learning Standards, are similarly rigorous, allow for student choice and have demonstrated, effective outcomes for students.

11. Domains of College and Career Readiness Defines the academic knowledge and skills students need to be successful in college and careers. Specifies the non- cognitive, socio-emotionalknowledge and skills that help students successfully transition from high school to college or careers. Describes the career- specific opportunities for students to gain the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to pursue and succeed in their chosen career. 11

12. Data Summary • Graduation Rates are Increasing • Aspirational performance Increasing however, only 38% of students are college and career ready • High Dropout Numbers • over 9% Still in School After 4 Years • Charter Schools Growing

13. Top Five Reasons Dropouts Identify as Major Factors For Leaving School • Classes were not interesting 47% • Missed too many days and could not catch up 43% • Spent time with people who were not interested in school 42% • Had too much freedom and not enough rules in my life 38% • Was failing in school 35% From The Silent Epidemic Bridgeland, John, John DiIulio Jr., and Karen Burke Morison, p. 3

14. Gaps • 9.1 % Of Students Still In School After 4 Years Of High School • 6.2 % Dropout Of School • Big Five Still Struggling • State Goal: All Students Graduate College and Career Ready We Are At 38% • Large 25.4% Gap Between High Need And Low Need Districts • More Failing Schools Operated By EPO’s

15. CTE Programs of the future will: • Improve AYP at the school and subgroup level • Improve graduation & college success results • Show that students were more highly engaged • Improve your faculty student relationships • Help your students to meet the aspiration standards on the Regents Examinations • Improve school relationships with the parents, community and employers

16. 13 Million Americans are unemployed Yet 3.8 Million jobs in the U.S. remain unfilled

17. Skilled Workforce Employment Gap National Skills Coalition New York’s Forgotten Middle

18. Middle Skilled Workforce Employment Gap • Advanced Manufacturing 675 estimated jobs unfilled annually • Information Technology 401 estimated jobs unfilled annually • Skilled Trades 768 estimated jobs unfilled annually • Hospitality and Tourism 456 estimated jobs unfilled annually • Health Care 1,267 estimated jobs unfilled annually Monroe Community College Measuring Middle-Skills Occupational Gaps Within the Finger Lakes Regional Economy

19. What you major in Matters! A LOT!

20. Top 10 Bachelor’s Degrees • Business • General Studies • Social Science and History • Psychology • Health Professions • Education • Visual and Performing Arts • Engineering and Technology • Communications and Journalism • Computer and Information Science Source: National Center for Education Statistics

21. Bachelor’s Degrees Aligned to Need • Business (1) • General Studies (10) • Social Science and History (6) • Psychology (9) • Health Professions (4) • Education (5) • Visual and Performing Arts (8) • Engineering and Technology (2) • Communications and Journalism (7) • Computer and Information Science (3) Source: National Center for Education Statistics

22. Pathways are a route to two-year and four-year colleges, additional career training, and employment.

23. Why The Fuss With CTE and Pathways • About 50 percent of all STEM jobs are open to workers with less than a bachelor's degree.(Rothwell, The Hidden STEM Economy, 2013) • Students attending CTE high schools have demonstrated higher rates of on-time graduation and credit accumulation and a greater likelihood of successfully finishing a college preparatory mathematics sequence.(Neild et al., The Academic Impacts of Career and Technical Schools: A Case Study of a Large Urban School District, 2013)

24. Eighty percent of students taking a college preparatory academic curriculum with rigorous CTE met college and career readiness goals, compared to only 63 percent of students taking the same academic core who did not experience rigorous CTE. (Southern Regional Education Board, High Schools That Work 2012 Assessment) • The average high school graduation rate in 2008 for students concentrating in CTE programs was 90 percent, compared to the average nationwide graduation rate of 75 percent.(U.S. Department of Education 2007–2008 data, National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium analysis)

25. Health care occupations, many of which require an associate degree or less, make up 12 of the 20 fastest growing occupations. • STEM occupations such as environmental engineering technicians require an associate degree and will experience faster than average job growth. • Middle-skill jobs, jobs that require education and training beyond high school but less than a bachelor’s degree, are a significant part of the economy. Of the 55 million job openings created by 2020, 30 percent will require some college or a two-year associate degree.

26. The primary aim of education is not to enable students to do well in school, but to help them do well in the lives they lead outside of school.

27. QUESTIONS? www.nyctecenter.org Charlie Crumb Western NY Field Team Associate Charlie@spnet.us