Optional Wednesday Events
(Each event includes lunch)

Career Pathways and the Counseling Connection:
Challenges, Possibilities, and Promise

This workshop will present proven strategies for reaching all students as they transition from each level to the next. Join our high-energy team for a fast-paced day of useful information. Pat Schwallie-Giddis will begin with energizers guaranteed to rev up your faculty and students. Linda Kobylarz will get you thinking about how to connect with students around Career Pathways. Presenters will provide the scoop on hot careers and global trends. Share your ideas in small groups and hear what works for others. Take home a free CD full of resources and  other goodies.

Teaching with Meaning: Facilitating Learning Using
Inquiry-Based Instruction

Getting students to inquire—“what if? … will it work? … what’s the best solution?”—is a  strategy that teachers use too little. Inquiry seeks answers to questions that are meaningful to students . This workshop will demonstrate how to use inquiry to teach content standards at mastery level.   Sandra Harwell, an authority on contextual teaching , standards-driven instruction, and facilitation of learning, will join two experts in inquiry-based instruction from the Greater Cincinnati Tech Prep Consortium, Shiela and Thomas O’Neill.

Teaching Contextually with Electronic Probeware (Computer Lab )

Using Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculator technology, students can develop  hypotheses, collect data, and reach real-world conclusions by measuring temperature, voltage, and light intensity with probes that come with the TI Classroom-based Laboratory (CBL). CBL activities are described in many resources (web, textbooks, journals). This workshop will prepare teachers to use this hands-on technology, analyze the results (Excel), and present the results (PowerPoint, including digital photographs). Curriculum supervisors and other administrators are welcome. (Intermediate knowledge of PowerPoint required. Limited seating).

Hit the Road: Tour an Outstanding Construction
Technology Career Pathway

Tour a model career pathway in construction technology with emphasis on management jointly implemented by partners Woodward Career Technical High School, Butler Technology’s Northwest Career Center, Cincinnati State, University of Cincinnati College of Applied Science, Allied Construction Industries, and Greater Cincinnati Tech Prep Consortium.  Observe students on the job and hear their stories of rebuilding in post-Katrina Louisiana. Meet college and employer partners.

Are you a new Career Pathways coordinator, Tech Prep coordinator, CTE administrator, counselor, dean, division chair, or faculty member whose duties have expanded to include Career Pathways? If so, this workshop is for you. Certification requires 15 contact hours over three days:
• Wednesday, 9:00 A.M.–5:00 P.M. (includes lunch)
• Thursday, 8:00–11:30 A.M.
(Choose either the Adult Career Pathways or
NATPL Tech Prep Data Preconference.)
• Thursday afternoon and all day Friday (Choose at least
four sessions from the main conference program.)
•  Friday, 4:30–5:30 P.M.—Wrap-up
The purpose of the workshop is to empower local personnel to implement Career Pathways and to provide tools and resources. The instructors will be Debra Mills, CORD’s Vice President of Partnerships, and Carol Jurgens, former state Tech Prep Director of Nebraska.
Participants will acquire effective new strategies for developing, implementing, and improving Career Pathways. Certificates will be awarded on Friday.
Workshop topics: Emerging Economies and the Need for Change, Career Pathways 101, Curriculum Alignment and Improvement, Adult Career Pathways, Community Teaming, Perkins and Tech Prep 101: Accountability and Evaluation, Career Planning, Improving Academic Achievement, Implementing a Professional Development Program, and Where to Begin. Questions? Debra Mills at    dmills@cord.org

Business As UnUsual: Finding Innovation in Transition
Includes continental breakfast and lunch
Since passage of Perkins IV, doing business as usual is no longer the norm. We hope you  will join us at the National Association for Tech Prep Leadership 2008 Forum to hear best practices from our members. The forum will begin at 7:30 with a continental breakfast and the business meeting at 8:00. In an unusual twist, the forum will start with regional meetings to discuss issues and nurture networking as we discover how you are doing business as unusual. Keynote speaker Daniel Thomas , a Tech Prep college student from Connecticut, will share his inspiring story of entrepreneurial success and beating the odds as an inner-city youth.
Session topics: Tech Prep 101, Program of Study (POS)—Essential Elements, Consortium Effectiveness and Operational Roles, Student Development and Leadership, Marketing and Promoting Tech Prep/Career Pathways, Dual Enrollment—The NACEP, Reporting Effectiveness of Tech Prep Programs, Conversations with Daniel Thomas (keynote speaker), Finding Innovation and Support in Transition.
Kathy D’Antoni  will conclude the forum with a motivational fable and call to action. The session will be followed by the president’s reception—“Business As UnUsual After Hours.”