Tech Center Enrollment

Tech Center Budgets

Major Initiatives that have built Career Tech

1988

•High Schools that Work

1990

•Tech Prep

1994

•School to Work

2007

•Career Cluster/Career Majors

2008

•Tech Centers that Work

2010-

2011

•School Reform/Accountability

2011-

2012

•Certifications

How Do Student Services Fit In?

School of Choice Students choose to come to us What are we doing to individualize their experience What are we doing to support the student

School of different ages High School Adult

Transition Employment Education Military

Student support/services is the key to all of it!

A Little Perspective….

Quote? – What Year?

Yet, there is not part of life where the need for guidance is more emphatic than in the transition from school to work--the choice of a career, adequate preparation for it, and the attainment of efficiency

and success.

Frank Parsons, 1909

We Have A Rich Tradition Excellence In Serving Oklahoma

Career Guidance since the 1970’s ODCTE Guidance since 1987

Changing To Meet Emerging Demand Continue to add, refine, refocus services such as academic

advisement, college readiness, integrated academics, job placement

Provide products, professional development, technical  assistance, and leadership for career and academic development

The Year is 1963….

Average Cost of new house $12,650.00

Average Income per year $5,807.00

Gas per Gallon 29 cents Average Cost of a new

car $3,233.00 Loaf of bread 22 cents Pass the Vocational Act

Funded Director of Guidance at SDE Provide technical

assistance to our newly formed AVTS districts

$ used for development of career educations materials

Guidance in CTE In 1986, the SDE decided not to

replace the retiring Director of Guidance

(1987) ODVTE held a strong commitment for guidance/counseling and chose to create the Vocational Guidance Coordinator position.

Have had Guidance ever since. SDE did re-instate own coordinator.

Presently, work in partnership with SDE Counseling Coordinator

Counselors Only Conference

2007: Guidance Division changed name to Career and Academic Connections to better reflect diversity of targeted audiences.

Currently, services cover guidance and counseling, career and academic advisement, assessment, integrated academics, services to students with disabilities, career development, OKCIS, workforce development/job placement, college readiness, etc.

Big Influence: Perkins Legislation

Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act (1984-Perkins I)

Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act Amendments of 1990 ( Perkins II)

Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1998 ( Perkins III)

Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act (2006-Perkins IV)

Perkins I Guidance language (1984)

♦ for comprehensive programs, to meet career development, vocational education, and employment needs of students and potential students, including assistance in:

(1) self-assessment, career planning and decisionmaking, and employability skills;

(2) transition and placement activities; (3) maintaining themselves in established occupations; (4) developing new skills in high-technology and skill-shortage

areas; (5) developing midcareer job seeking skills clarifying career goals;

and (6) obtaining and using information on financial assistance for

postsecondary and vocational education and job training.

Perkins II Guidance Language (1990)

The term “career guidance and counseling” means programs--

(A) which pertain to the body of subject matter and related techniques and methods organized for the development in individuals of career awareness, career planning, career decision making, placement skills, and knowledge and understanding of local, state, and national occupational, educational, and labor market needs, trends, and opportunities; and

(B) which assist such individuals in making and implementing informed educational and occupational choices.

Perkins III Guidance Legislation (1998)

The term “career guidance and academic counseling” means providing access to information regarding career awareness and planning with respect to an individual's occupational and academic future that shall involve guidance and counseling with respect to career options, financial aid, and postsecondary options.

Perkins IV Guidance Language-2006

The term “career guidance and academic counseling” means guidance and counseling that:

provides access for students (and parents, as appropriate) to information regarding career awareness and planning with respect to an individual's occupational and academic future and

Provides information with respect to career options, financial aid, and postsecondary options, including baccalaureate degree programs.

Progression of Development

Quality Indicators

Accreditation Standards

Guidance Self Study

Student Services Model

Moving forward• Career and academic advisement

/planning with counselors, student services staff ,and instructors working together

Counselors provide career planning/advisement

• Career exploration/career and academic planning starting with middle school Level

Recruitment/career activities starting with

sophomore level

• Helping students transition to postsecondary education and employment

Helping students transition to employment

• Seeking active parental involvementLimited Parental

Involvement