2024 Advance CTE Fall Meeting

The modernized National Career Clusters Framework offers opportunities to further modernize CTE systems by encouraging more interdisciplinary and interconnected CTE programs of study and experiences across learner levels. These ideation sessions will offer a space for participants to engage in collaborative thinking and problem solving to help move the needle on key policies, practices, and partnerships to jumpstart the adoption and implementation of the newly released Career Clusters Framework.

Partner engagement through Perkins V provides opportunities for meaningful engagement and conversations on how best to support underserved learners. How can we move from meaningful conversations to meaningful action and impact? This session highlights HopeTech, a residential housing community for young adults and high school students in foster care, located at the East Valley Institute of Technology (EVIT) in Mesa, AZ. Attendees will gain a roadmap and steps to scale similar promising models to create impactful wraparound supports for special populations in CTE.

Learning objectives:

• Learn promising practices from two state leaders in designing wraparound supports through tailored programs for special populations.  
• Discuss common challenges and barriers in designing and implementing wraparound supports that create access to high-quality CTE programs. 
• Identify two takeaways to strengthen wraparound support work over the next year in your state.

Meaningful monitoring processes cannot be contained to one person or office, but become everyone’s job through integration in the foundational processes for high-quality CTE — the Perkins V Comprehensive Local Needs Assessment (CLNA), local application, and Methods of Administration (MOA). In this session, participants will learn about the monitoring processes in several states and how they are constantly developing their systems to improve access, persistence, and completion in CTE programs. Attendees will be provided with examples of promising practices and processes for collaborating within state agencies to enhance monitoring execution, assessment, and responses for states of all sizes.

Learning objectives:

• Participants will discuss and collaborate on different aspects of the monitoring process from a large and small state perspective.
• Participants will explore how the monitoring systems and processes of featured states have evolved to continually provide high-quality oversight for grantees. 
• Participants will complete a gallery walk of required Perkins documentation and application monitoring elements and discuss how these pieces are in use within their own grant systems.