NCPN Title and Descriptions of Main Conference Sessions

Presentation TitleBuilding Productive Partnerships WithBusinesses for Future Employment ofStudents and AdultsBusiness Solutions Team: Eliminating theConfusion for EmployersCareer Academies: The Importance ofEffective SchedulingCareer Clusters: Virginia’s Best PracticesCareer Foundations 101: How to Prepare anEffective and Comprehensive CareerServices ProgramCareer Pathway Alignment to Kuder®AssessmentsCareer Readiness and the Common CareerTechnical Core InitiativeCareerSafe Online: Delivering OSHA 10-Hour Curriculum and CertificationCollaborating Across the Pipeline to IncreaseNontraditional Student Success in STEMProgramsCollaborative Self-Sustaining Approaches toTransition GED® Students in RuralCommunitiesCollege and Career Preparation: CareerPathways Elective Course for AdultPresentation Descriptionactual students. Integrated discussion of program components, funding sources, successrates and challenges will be discussed.Establishing productive partnerships with businesses, organizations and agencies affordsstudents and adults the ability to build relationships with future employers. Creating anearly awareness of a businesses’ specific education requirements and job skills helpsstudents and adults match career aspirations with employers.This presentation will focus on how the Greater Richmond VA Region, under theumbrella of the capital region Workforce Investment Board (WIB), known asRESOURCE, developed a business solutions team (BST) focusing on the core servicesthat the collective agency partners provide. In the past, there was much confusion aboutwhat agency to go to for workforce assistance, and because of that, area businessesdidn’t want to use the services of the agencies.Mike Neubig has vast experience in scheduling cohort-based programs in the form ofsmaller learning communities and career academies. The main focus of this work is totrain school leaders to unlock the constraints of traditional bell schedules and implementhybrid models that allow for flexible, performance driven instruction.This session will provide the most up-to-date information on Virginia’s K-12 efforts for thenational career clusters and pathways initiative. The presentation will feature bestpractices in Virginia’s public schools, highlighting the 16 career clusters. Selected bestpractices videos will be shown to the participants.Name the lifelong process that combines self-awareness, knowledge of the changingworkplace environment, and the ability to effectively prepare for workplace transitions——career development, of course. Find tips and strategies for addressing each of theseareas, then learn how to efficiently fit them easily into workable career planning programsyour clients will use time and time again.This presentation will highlight the new ways Kuder® is helping to incorporate pathwaysinto career planning. Kuder’s assessments report results align to the National 16 CareerClusters but users will see a new, additional, and highly informative report and a rankorderedlisting of the student’s five closest matching career pathways. Attend thispresentation to find out more about this report and how it serves as an additionalorganizational tool to develop more effective programs of study and occupationalsuccess.The National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium(NASDCTEc) is coordinating the state-led effort, which will complement and supportcomprehensive college and career ready standards, such as the Common Core StateStandards Initiative (CCSI) in English Language Arts and Mathematics. The CCTC willbuild a common connection among states to help prepare CTE students for college andcareer. Forty-one states, DC, and Palau have signed a declaration of support for theCCTC initiative, pledging their involvement in the development stage. Hear about theprocess used and how to access the results. In 2012, NASDCTEc convened the CareerReadiness Partner Council (CRPC) made up leading education and business leaders toidentify a definition and principles for Career Readiness. Hear about the progress madefrom national leaders made toward defining Career Readiness and plans for the futurethat influence Career Readiness implementation in states and districts. You’ll hear howthis career readiness work connects to the career ready practices being developed aspart of the CCTC and how all of this is driving policy discussions for Perkinsreauthorization.CareerSafe Online provides educators with online curriculum, resources and toolsnecessary to effectively deliver the interactive curriculum to their students. This proactiveweb-based training is designed to provide entry-level workers, particularly secondary andpost secondary, with fundamental safety knowledge needed in the workplace. If studentsare successful, they will receive a portable national industry recognized OSHA 10-Hourcertificate and wallet card. This unique approach to safety can maximize studentachievement and help develop life-long, self-directed learners.Through the collaboration of faculty, counselors, and administrators from middle schools,high schools, career centers (both secondary and adult), community colleges, four-yearuniversities, and local employers, The Ohio STEM Equity Pipeline Project has beensuccessful in developing and implementing innovative research-based strategies toincrease access and success of nontraditional female students in STEM programs.This presentation will address an overview of rural programs and student characteristics,innovative counseling approaches, leveraging funding, and overcoming truedisadvantages of program delivery in rural settings. Examples of awards received includetobacco and Workforce Investment Board funding. Benefits to participants are differentapproaches to counseling and funding for replication.Attendees will understand how Daytona State College Department of Adult Educationbuilt and implemented a college and career preparation elective course for college bound