GETTING THE FULL VALUE OUT OF CTE

ACTEAZ Summer ConferenceJuly 2016

Bellwork• Think for a moment about the outcomes you wish for all

students. Please share with your shoulder partner.

Be prepared to share

Potential Power of CTE• 92% of U.S. high school students take at least one CTE

course• Less concentrate in CTE but it is still significant• U. S. high schools average 8.57 CTE programs

Discussion: Does your school look like this? Discuss with a shoulder partner.

CTE Delivery Model

What we want from our educational system

• Engagement• Achievement• Transition

Student Engagement

Getting Kids Through HS: The First Measure of Engagement

Good News

• High School Completion = 81% - Highest in 40 Years

• Racial/Ethnic gap is closing

*Graduating class of 2012

Bad News

• Variability among states: 89% in Iowa; 63% in Nevada

• Hispanics and Blacks trail Whites with graduation rates by 5 and 13 points respectively; boys drop out more than girls

Source: National Center for Educational Statistics 2015

A state look

• All students: 76.0%• American Indian/Alaska Native: 62%• Asian/Pacific Islander: 87%• Hispanic: 72%• Black (not Hispanic): 74%• White (not Hispanic): 85%

Alliance for Excellent Education 2012

CTE’s potential contributions to engagement

On the RiseASU Morrison Institute for Public Policy

• CTE participation has a positive effect on students’ academic engagement as measured by the likelihood of dropping out and absenteeism.• Tucson Unified – 20 – 60%• Mesa – 79%

Staying Power

• Ratio of 1 academic: 2 CTE courses is optimal• 98% of AZ 2014-2015 concentrators completed high

school vs. 76% of all other AZ high school students• Nationally, 90.18% of CTE concentrators graduate as

opposed to 80.0 % of all freshmen

Discussion• Why do kids that are immersed in CTE programs come to

school regularly and graduate on time?

Turn to your should partner and share

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Achievement

CTE Contributions to Achievement

Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education

Impact of Career/Technical Courses that Integrate Academics

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Discussion• What is it about CTE that improves students’ academic

outcomes?

Share with your shoulder partner

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Transition

Only 40% of 27-year olds have earned an A.A. degree or higher

CTE’s Potential Contributions to Transition

Transition• “According to data from the National Center for Education

Statistics, the majority of CTE students in high school continue on to postsecondary education, and those who join the workforce outright or work to supplement their incomes as they pursue further education are often in a better financial situation than high school graduates who did not pursue CTE.”

Techniques Magazine, February 2014

CTE Sends Students on to Postsecondary Education

• 78% of CTE concentrators enroll in postsecondary education, full time, within two years of graduation

• About one third of all dual enrollment credits—about 600,000 in all—are eared in CTE courses

• Students in postsecondary CTE programs are more likely to be employed within five years than those in an academic field of study

Source: Careertech.org

Credential Acquisition

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NAVE, 2004

THE PARADIGM IS SHIFTING

College for all?

• 68% start college• Only 40% complete college• 53% of grads are unemployed

or underemployed• Student loan debt now

exceeds auto loans, credit card balances and home-equity loan debt … $1.3 trillion

TIME Magazine

• “Millennials make less money, are more likely to live in poverty and have lower rates of employment than their parents did at their ages 20 and 30 years ago.”

Discussion• Any surprises or insights?

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Work-Based Learning• Positive correlations with graduation, academic

achievement and career success.

• 26.1% of young people who could recall no contact with employers while at school went on to be come NEET(Not in Employment, Education or Training). Reduced to 4.3% for those in work-based learning. Dr. Anthony Mann, Education and Employers (2013)

CTSOs• Involvement in CTSOs

(CTE Student Organizations) increases academic achievement, career self efficacy and employability skills.

Community Involvement

• Advisory Councils• CTSO judges• Guest speakers• Mentors• CTSO team trainers

The new (and not so new) challenge:children living in poverty

The Social mobility escalator is broken

• For the first time in 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low income families.

• CTE can fix the “mobility escalator”

Facts about children in poverty

• Children living in poverty have a higher number of absenteeism or leave school all together because they are more likely to have to work or care for family members.

• Dropout rates of 16 to 24-years-old students who come from low income families are seven times more likely to drop out than those from families with higher incomes.

Dosomething.org

Poverty matters• Poverty really matters

• “CTE is the Rx”

CTE

So, what is stopping us?• What institutional obstacles prevent students from

accessing CTE and completing CTE programs?• What are we doing to overcome these obstacles?

Turn to your should partner and share.

Be prepared to share with the group.

CTE Delivery Model

Azcteleads.org

Worth ReadingPathways to Prosperity (Harvard)Learning for Jobs (OECD, 2010)Five Ways that Pay Along the Way to a B.A. Carnevale,

et al., 9.18.12, Center on Education and the Workforce)21st Century Career and Technical Education Pathways

On the Rise (Morrison Institute for Public Policy)Knocking at the College Door (WICHE. December

2012)Toward a Model of Career-Technical Education (Phi

Delta Kappan, September 2013)

Need more information?For more CTE research visit:

• The CTE Research Clearinghouse at http://www.acteonline.org/clearinghouse.aspx

• The National Research Center for CTE at www.nrccte.org

• Association for Career and Technical Education www.acteonline.org