May 14, 2009 HSTW “End of Year” Telephone Conference
May 19, 2009 HSTW “End of Year” Telephone Conference
June 3, 2009 Teachers as Advisors Workshop - Stillwater
July 8-11, 2009 SREB 23rd Annual Summer Staff Development Conference - Atlanta, GA
September 9, 2009 Literacy Training Team Orientation - Oklahoma City
September 10, 2009 HSTW Site Team Workshop - Oklahoma City
CLASSROOM RESOURCES
Dropout Prevention
The National Dropout Prevention Center/Network has a great article: Twelve Suggestions on Counseling in an Educational Setting. Download and/or read the article at http://www.dropoutprevention.org/resource/featured_articles/pay_attention.htm.
About.com: Presentation Software
Integrate technology into the classroom. Look at this site for tips on making classroom presentations and lesson plans. Teachers and students can be impressive in the classroom with these tips, tricks and free tutorials for using PowerPoint, Windows Movie Maker and Open Office. http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/classrooms.
E-transcript Exchange through OKcollegestart.org
E-transcript exchange allows students to log on and fill out applications to Oklahoma colleges and universities. The site will notify their counselor to send an accompanying official transcript. What a time saver for counselors!! The advantages in e-transcripts are they will not be lost, no additional equipment is needed, and you can track when transcripts are received! Better yet -- it’s FREE!! Check it out by logging on to http://www.okcollegestart.org/
In addition, local technology centers now have the opportunity to take part in this program to receive e-transcripts. High school counselors will be able to directly send transcripts electronically to the tech center for students attending! Technology center superintendents have until June 1, 2009, to decide if they want to participate. Contact your tech center superintendent’s office and let them know if you want them to participate and be able to send transcripts to the technology center electronically. Contact Tommi Leach with e-transcript questions at tleac@okcareertech.org or 405-743-5524.
Contact Sandy Decker, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, at sdecker@OSRHE.edu or 405-225-9190 if you are interested in signing up to receive the training for OKcollegestart.org.
National Network of Partnership Schools!
Working Together for Student Success was established at Johns Hopkins University in 1996. NNPS invites others to join together and use research-based approaches to organize and sustain excellent programs of family and community involvement that will increase student success in school.
“Based on more than two decades of research on parental involvement, family engagement, and community partnerships, NNPS’s tools, guidelines, and action team approach may be used by all elementary, middle, and high schools to increase involvement and improve student learning and development,” explains Dr. Joyce L. Epstein, Founder and Director of NNPS. Researchers and facilitators at the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University work with the members of NNPS to study the nature and results of involvement. The NNPS website provides updated information, research results, and ideas for action from the NNPS staff and members across the country.
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/index.htm
Eye on Education
Eye On Education publishes practical reference books for teachers, principals, administrators, and other educators that are peer-reviewed. Their books provide practical information on professional development, educational leadership, school improvement, student assessment, data analysis, teaching skills, and other related topics. Check out their resources at http://www.eyeoneducation.com/
Tales from a Teachers Heart
This website shows a series of movies that tell heartwarming stories about students, schools, and teachers like you. From the lives of our authors, these true stories celebrate and explore all the ways you can meet student needs and enhance their educational lives. Check out some of the stories at http://www.talesfromateachersheart.com/include/index2.asp
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Register for the SREB 23rd Annual Summer Conference!
Registration closes June 12, 2009
Teachers as Advisors Workshop June 3, 2009
Teachers as Advisors is a classroom guidance delivery system where middle school and high school students are divided into small groups. Each group is facilitated by a local educator to receive support services that includes personal/social development, academic development and career development. The Teachers as Advisors Program –
• Organizes career development into a manageable time frame and with team effort.
• Ensures consistent curriculum exposure to all students.
• Provides an opportunity for shared responsibility for career education by including parents, students, teachers and counselors.
• Enables students to gain skills and background necessary to make good educational and career decisions.
• Increases students’ choices and access to jobs and postsecondary education through adequate knowledge.
• Encourages students to set career/educational goals and construct a plan to meet those goals.
• Improves relations between school, parents, business, industry, and other community members.
Registration closes May 20th, 2009. Register for the TAA Workshop to be held at the Oklahoma Department of CareerTech, Stillwater by accessing this registration form: http://www.okcareertech.org/cac/Pages/bulletin_board/bulletin_board2.htm
LEAP TRAINING
June 10, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. (Lunch on your own)
Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education
Class Description: The Leadership, Education and Achievement Program (LEAP) is an exceptional program targeted toward those middle/junior high school students who exhibit the potential for both academic and leadership success. The objective of this program is to help prepare students to strive for achievement in these areas. The LEAP curriculum is a powerful and compelling resource for students. It is instrumental in allowing them to develop leadership potential, prepare for further academic success, build positive relationships, serve in their communities, conduct research and observation, and improve their problem solving skills.For further information, please go to http://www.okhighered.org/MTRC/leap.shtml. To register go to:
ACE TRAINING
June 11, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. (Lunch on your own)
Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education
Class Description: The Academic Commitment to Education Program (ACE) is an exemplary program targeted to those students who possess high academic and leadership standards. These students are chosen to participate in this program that encourages them to consider teaching as a viable career. However, those who do not become educators evolve into strong advocates for teachers and proponents for education.The ACE curriculum is a powerful educational tool that is designed to take academically successful students and propel them into a rigorous journey filled with exciting, new opportunities for development and growth. The course focuses upon aspects of the teaching profession from learning styles and diversity issues, to lesson planning and presentation skills. There are also activities for college preparation planning. For further information, please go to http://www.okhighered.org.
Register at
STEM Equity Pipeline Training
It is not too late to enroll in the STEM Equity Pipeline offered in May even if you missed the April's webinar. The webinar has been archived for your convenience. All you will need to do is click on the following link to register for one of the two sites where the training will be provided and review the archived webinar before you attend (May 15 deadline for registering): http://www.stemequitypipeline.org/StateTeams/OKwebinar.aspx
The STEM Equity Pipeline 5-Step Workshop is designed to help schools eliminate gender disparities and help all student succeed. The Oklahoma Department of CareerTech and the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) will host the workshop that will utilize strategically planned activities to improve nontraditional enrollment while assisting the state and local sites in meeting their Carl Perkins Performance Equity Standard.
Is your school producing a diverse workforce? If not, join in for the 5 Step Process in creating a more diverse workforce. The workshop will be conducted in two sessions. The first session, for all participants, attended or can view the archived webinar. The webinar is designed to assist in utilizing current data. Part two will include a face to face workshop on May 27 (in Tulsa) or May 28th (in Norman). Participants will receive stipends to assist with travel, which will be determined based on your school location. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to call Lou Hargrave at (405) 743-5128 or Debbie McElroy at (405) 743-6817 or mailto:dmcel@okcareertech.org
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