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Effective Strategies to Align Learner Levels:
Minnesota Local Consortia
NASDCTEc, March 30 ,2010
JoAnn Simser, State Director for Career & Technical Education
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Daniel Smith, Center for Postsecondary SuccessMinnesota Department of Education
What prepared us?
• 10% Perkins reserved for collaboration• Strong tech prep consortia
– Articulation agreements– HS-college relationships
• College-University system– Articulation agreements– MN Transfer Curriculum
• State approval CTE programs: MDE and MnSCU• PSEO, AP, CLEP, PK-18 • Hearings on State Plan 2008-2013
Perkins IV Legislation:
Distribution of Funds for Secondary and Post Secondary Education Programs
Consortium requirements.—Funds to Consortium.—Funds allocated to a consortium formed to meet requirements of this section shall be used only for purposes and programs that are mutually beneficial to all members of the consortium and shall be used only for programs authorized under this title. Such funds may not be reallocated to individual members of the consortium for purposes or programs benefitting only one member of the consortium.
Sec 131(f)(2) and 132(a)(3)(B)
MN State CTE Plan Goals 2008-2013
1. Programs of Study
2. Partnerships e.g. Sec, PS, Workforce Centers, business/industry, ABE,CBO
3. Special Populations
4. Continuum of Services
5. Local ConsortiaApproved by US DOE in State Plan
How did we do it?
• Self formed consortia– Each consortium must have at least one eligible school
district and at least one eligible postsecondary institution (technical or community college)
– No district nor any college may belong to more than one consortium
– State approved
• ConsolidatedTech Prep into Perkins FY08
• Recommended 20% of consortia funds be dedicated to formation of local consortia FY08
Perkins funds are distributed through a system of 26 Perkins consortia
Allocations made by formula (secondary and post-secondary) with 10% reserved to address geography and participation
Local consortium plan for funds to be used to benefit all members
Account for expenditures sec/post sec
It has changed the way we do things:
• Local• Collaboration, partnerships• Sec-post sec transitions• Meeting regional needs• Effective use of more limited
human, facility and fiscal resources
• Dual credit, articulation agreements
• Sec-Post Sec Advisory Committees
• Professional development
• State• Prof. Dev.-coordinators, fiscal,
accountability• Local performance target
negotiations• Local monitoring• MDE/MnSCU staff meetings• Communications-Counselors,
Presidents/Supt. , CAO’s, Etc.• Legislature, DEED, ABE• Grant s DOL, ARRA, DOC• Leadership-Advisory committees
• Approach to assessing CTE-Academic /General Education, Technical and Workplace skills
• Programs of Study 1-5-1– Developed Local Consortium– State Approved/Criteria– State model
• Technical Skill Assessment– Core competencies sec/post sec teachers/faculty– Validated by industry– State recommended assessments– 5 pilots FY10; 6-10 more FY11
Impact on CTE:
Grade 9 Grade 10
Grade 11
Grade 12
Fresh-man
Sopho-more
Prepara-tory
Courses
Upper level high
school courses
College Course-
work
What is the value
added and how is it recog-nized?
Program of Study
CHASM
OF
HIGH
SCHOOL
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COLLEGE
TRANSITION
Technical Skill Assessment
Secondary CTE Program
Postsecondary CTE Program
Program of Study
• Broad-based
• Approved at the District level
• Narrow occupational focus
• Approved for the college
• Approved at the consortium level – migrating to approval at the state level
• Technical skill assessment for the purpose of accountability
• Guidance function
• Work readiness component
• Articulation agreements
•http://www.cte.mnscu.edu•http://www.cte.mnscu.edu
• Programs of Study• Programs of Study
• Bring everyone on board-vision, leadership, education
• Programs of Study-state model career pathway; adult/lifelong transitions; state recommendations for TSA all pathways
• CTE at the table: Race to the Top, CCSSE, legislature, DEED, Workforce Centers, ABE, federal grants
• More online and blended CTE opportunities
• Seamless student transitions-articulation/transcripted credits, Credit for Prior Learning, concurrent enrollment, middle colleges
MN CTE Future:
Resources:
MN Career and Technical Education www.cte.mnscu.edu– Career fields, clusters, pathways wheel– Perkins consortia map– Background Report MN Technical Skill Assessment
Project– Career Pathway Core Competencies– Technical Skill Assessment Matrix
• Transfer, MN Transfer Curriculum www.mntransfer.org
Contact information:
JoAnn Simser
651-297-2285
Dan Smith
651-582-8330
