Counseling and CTE: Increasing Your Awareness

Preparing for Life After High SchoolPresenter:Susi HuschleCareer Education CounselorHumboldt County Office of Education

Brief introduction 1GOALS FOR THE DAYShare information about the Decade of Difference? Define Advanced Training?What steps do we take as parents and community members to prepare our youth for future success? SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS2TERMS TO DEFINE:When you think of the phrase going to college what pops into your head?What is your definition of Success?Who is Susi?Lets spend some time just brainstorming the answer to these questions I will answer Who is Susi?

3Susis StorySchool Counselor in Humboldt 20+ yearsJacoby Creek SchoolFreshwaterTrinidadMother of two GATE identified studentsAdam 8th gradeGreta - SeniorMore students graduatingMore students attaining post-secondary education or trainingMore students returning to Humboldt County and attaining employmentMore vibrant, healthy economy for our future.

Decade of Difference:2020 Initiative

Early SuccessKindergarten Readiness/Early LiteracyYouth EntrepreneurshipFinancial Literacy, Planning, and SavingsCareer Awareness and College PlanningParent and Community EngagementTeacher Training/Professional Development

6 Key Impact Areas

Student PlannersNavigator and HUB I've Already Been Admitted to College ProgramHumboldt LIVE!Ideas at WorkCAS/CAFCal-SOAPImpact Area:College and Career Resources

The ChallengePause .Ask..???Our goal with the Decade is to affect change with these resources. The challenge seems to be to make the resources meaningful. I want to pause a moment and ask you what makes this information meaningful, how do we get our community, you as parents to grasp the importance of this work. I have more to share. I have what I believe to be beneficial, what I know to be true and important shift in our society but without community support and client usage, it is worth nothing. So I ask of you. How do we create meaningful resources.Discuss with the group

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8IDEALREALvs.Ideal example of the four year college progression somewhere along the way determining a major and then graduating and getting a job in that field. Use my own career as an example. This WAS ideal now it is idealistic that is not the norm anymore. What is real now is going through 5-6 years of college graduating and being unable to find work only to go back and re-enroll in a CC or some type of technical school or training degree for a certificate or go on and get a higher level degree and still not be guaranteed work

9REDEFINING COLLEGEAt this point I showed a brief video it was too large to post as part of this PowerPoint but you can click on Obama back in the post on The Hub next to the link you clicked on for this PowerPointThe young man poses a question and Obama does answer it I just cut him off early yes I cut off the President. I just wanted to include this young man because I think he is so cute and they all look so proud with the opportunity to dialogue with the president. But the way Pres. Obama prefaces his answer is what is important to me. He redefines college. Lets listenThe task at hand is redefining college and how we approach creating an educational plan with our youth10College is not the end goal its simply one of many choicesPost Secondary Education or Training includes many options Consider ALL the options

Career & Technical Education The prep/gap year Bachelors Degree Bachelor's Degree in Technology 2-year Associates Degrees Associate Degree in Engineering Technology One Year Technical Certificates ROP Military Service Distance Education Private Career Schools & Colleges Formal Apprenticeships Programs

What is important to note is that the term college has a stagnant meaning. People hear it and it often leads to the definition we are used to which is the 4 year university yet even with our brainstorm today and as Pres. Obama just stated we heard that the term college has a variety of meanings in todays society as is shown on this list11REDEFINING COLLEGEThe new term is ADVANCED TRAINING

I have been searching for the right word for 3 years. Ever since I came into this position I have been uncomfortable with the term college because so often what I am promoting is any one of the items of the previous list not only a four year university it depends not eh end goal as to what the educational plan will look like. I was so happy when this term Advanced Training was used in a conversation in my office the other day. I love it it perfectly describes college or post-secondary education. Post secondary education is so ominous and most people arent truly familiar with even calling high school secondary education so what does post-secondary even mean to them. So I am grabbing this term and running with it and I am enlisting your help as parents and community members to make a familiar term that helps our youth develop a goal based educational plan.12Watch your LanguageYou have to get your B.A. As long as you go to college you will be successfulWhere are you going after HS?Postpone career choices as long as possible - You dont want to close any doors.

So now we can take some of these common phrases as shown on this slide and plug in our new term. You can just see how it opens the door and removes the stigma, that for some can come with the whole college standard i.e. Rather than BA we plug in Advanced Training, in the second statement change college to advanced training where are you going to do your advanced training and so on you can see by simply changing to this phrase we are really opening up many more options when present planning for the future13?Determine the goal:What really needs to happen with planning is described in this diagram we need to look at these three areas and where they overlap it leads to the career things may change over time that is fine but this is a great starting place for exploration. If you determine this goal in this way, then you can begin developing your education plan around that goal and of course as you learn more about what you love and what you are good at and in our ever-changing world what you can get paid for or what the world needs then you tweak the goal and tweak the plan. 14Student Outcome Goals of Career Development Programs

In the sixth - eighth grades, all students should participate in activities designed to help them explore & narrow several career interests.

In the ninth tenth grades, all students should participate in activities that allow them to verify these career options.

By the eleventh grade (at the latest) students should have a career plan including a Plan B.

Through the Decade we have created many resources for each of these developmental stages. 6th-8th Kuder Navigator, Career Camps, Humboldt Live!. 9-10th the CTE electives allow for exploration that is why they are there in the high schools make sure students explore- take advantage of theses exploratory classes and students can begin to find out what they enjoy doing and what they are good at. If by 11th there is a plan in place with a tentative goal it will allow for mapping out the next steps and preparing, applying and narrowing down options. 15Student PlannersNavigator and HUB I've Already Been Admitted to College ProgramHumboldt LIVE!Ideas at WorkCAS/CAFCal-SOAPImpact Area:College and Career Resources

These are the resources we discussed earlier that are available to our Humboldt County students through the Decade and they align with those stages we just looked at. 16Common Core StandardsAre aligned with college and work expectations;Are clear, understandable and consistent;Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through higher-order skills;Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards;Are informed by other top performing countries, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society; andAre evidence-based. (NGA & CCSS, 2010, p. 1)

It is important to note that we have big changes ahead with school standards (make sure audience knows this term explain it if not and at least briefly define if it looks like just a few need) The common core (explain this change as well) can help our gifted identified students in that there flows throughout these new standards a them tied to Career and College readiness. With alignment towards practical application in real world we can expect more hands-on creative, real world learning. That kind of learning is inspiring and often makes more sense to a student who thinks outside the box, or wants to know why I need to spend time learning this, As parents of GATE identified students we are used to comments like this. These new standards offer the opportunity for educators to grasp at creative innovative ways to engage students. I am looking forward to what might come with the Common Core. We as educators are learning more and more about these standards and they are due to be implemented in the 2014 school year. The next slide will offer a resource to learn more about Common Core 17SourcesNational Association for Gifted Children (2010).

www.corestandards.org..

The NAGC website has lots of information about the Common Core standards and implications for Gifted identified students. The second website will give you more information about the standards.18College-Prep and CTE are complementary not competing goals . . . What is important to note through all of this. Is that College-Prep and CTE go hand in hand it depends on what your goal is. 19College-Prep and CTE are complementary not competing goals . . . A combination of 60% academic courses and 40% CTE is the most effective drop-out prevention program in the American high school. (Plank, 2002) A few statistics. It is important to have numbers and data to back what you believe in but what is most important to me is the dialogue and the conversation like we are having today. This is what gets people to that ah-ah moment or inspires the spark to spread the word. Meaningful work is key. I have shown you a list of resources, some of you have shared you havent heard of them, that is my biggest quandary how do we make these resources meaningful just like making this information meaningful to some statistics is the way to make it meaningful. So I have this slide and another (plus at the end of the power point there are more graphs and data to help uphold the argument for the importance of CTE and skill based training how our work place demands our changing which in turn should be changing how we approach the educational planning discussion) 20College-Prep and CTE are complementary not competing goals Students in CTE pathways: More likely to complete a-g requirements (50% vs 34%)

More likely to pass the CAHSEE (71% vs 55%)

Had higher graduation rates (96% vs 87%)

Had lower drop out rates Higher postsecondary participation

CTE is to some teens what AP & Honors is to others This phrase however, speaks to my heart and I can imagine with the parents in this audience many of you would agree. There are some students out there that love academia, love to sit in a classroom and learn well great thats what the AP & honors classes offer to them but in the same vane there are many teens who need to move, who get it when they get to put their hands on it, in it, explore it so their higher level learning comes with CTE. 22Summary

Acknowledge that all higher education counts redefine college Advanced TrainingDiscourage the one way to win philosophy Challenge the claim that more people need a university degree to be successful Acknowledge a university degree does not guarantee access to high wagesFocus on the goal career exploration is keyCollege readiness does not equal career readiness College-Prep and CTE are complementary not competing goalsQuestions????//Thoughts.Tasks for you:Make The Hub a favorite and check there frequentlywww.decadeofdifference.org/thehubHumboldt Live! (ask about it at your school)Navigator (contact me for sign up information)If you or your child use FacebookFriend Humboldt CounselorLike The Humboldt HubGet Involved:Be a voice watch your languageAdvanced Training

Visit the Decade of Difference website to learn how you can get involved in an impact area that interests you:www.decadeofdifference.orgContact Information:Susi Huschleshuschle@humboldt.k12.ca.us707-445-7563

Extra slides if discussion allows/invitesExtra slides if discussion allows/invitesOur Workforce has Changed:

19602000Shortage of Technicians

High school dropouts without skills High school graduates without skills College Dropouts without skills College graduates without skills

Compared to students with similar academic background, CTE students are more likely to graduate from high school be employed, be employed in skilled occupations or be in college.

(Harvey, 2001) 83% of associate degree holders have the same annual earnings as 4-yr grads

The current US reality: only 40% of 27-year olds have earned an AA or higher

The ladder faculty is assistant, associate, and full professors.

We have a lot of nonladder faculty at HGSE also: Professors of Practice, Senior Lecturers, Lecturers, adjunct lecturers visiting faculty

For today, were focusing on the ladder ranks as those are the tenured and tenure-track faculty.

Overall, weve added 9 ladder faculty in the past 5 years, but most of that growth has been at the junior ranks, not the tenured faculty ranks.

Our plan going forward is to grow the senior faculty somewhat more than the rest of the ladder.34

Not Everyone needs a BA. By 2018, most jobs will not require a BA

UC Riverside ROP Study Compared to students with similar academic background, ROP students: raised GPAs more rapidly attended college in larger numbers females/minorities earned higher incomes received raises and promotions at a higher rate