February 21, 2018
Flash Edition
OCTAE is pleased to host the first in a series of peer-to-peer
conversations titled "Strengthening Partnerships for the Manufacturing
Workforce." In the first conversation, "Vertical Integration in Your
Manufacturing Partnership," panelists will tackle topics such as working
with the K–12 system, incorporating career and technical education (CTE)
resources into workforce development, and building networked approaches for
education and training. Please join us for this dynamic exchange. Click on Join the
Conversation below to register and for more information.
This series is intended to accelerate conversations between
peers with shared challenges in partnership development. We are most
interested in your ideas and questions, and in having you share and learn about
available resources. In order to post your ideas and questions, you will need
first to create an account. If you have problems with LINCS, the registration
system, see the LINCS
help center.
Monday,
Feb. 26, 2018
12:15
-1:00 p.m. EST
Join the Conversation!
The
U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education
and the U.S. Department of Labor will co-host a webinar featuring the work of
the Industry Expert to Expert Instructor (IE2EI) IMPACTcommunity.
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018
3–4 p.m. EST
Register Here!
More on the Webinar
Is yours an institution interested in
preparing its industry experts to become excellent teachers? The Industry
Expert-to-Expert Instructor (IE2EI) IMPACTcommunity on SkillsCommons.org—the free and open digital library of workforce training materials—has
produced videos, tools, and resources featuring exemplary teaching practices
that educational institutions can easily adopt and adapt to produce successful
transitions of industry experts into expert teachers.
Community
colleges and others engaged in career and technical training place a premium on
faculty with both the industry expertise and excellent teaching skills needed
to impact student success. Colleges need to achieve this by equipping their
industry experts with professional development to launch their careers as
instructors. The Industry Expert to Expert Instructor (IE2EI) SkillsCommons
IMPACTcommunity provides free,
modularized, faculty development materials that can be used for self-paced
training, embedded into a learning management system and added as a supplement
to an existing faculty development plan, or even used as training aids in face-to-face
sessions. In this webinar, participants will become familiar with the content available
on IE2EI and learn how its interactive modules focus on essential teaching
skills, which can help reduce anxiety for instructors facing students for the
first time. Participants will obtain links for downloading the content to
assist their institution’s efforts to improve their industry experts’ teaching
success and support increased student engagement.
This webinar
is the first in a series showcasing strategies and resources developed by
community colleges that are of broad interest to educational institutions
engaged in career-focused education and training. For more information, please
visit: Innovations Leading to Career Success Webinar
Series. Topics
of upcoming webinars will include career pathways,
developmental education using competency-based education, affordable learning
solutions, sustaining innovation, and apprenticeships. IE2EI, and the many
other resources available on SkillsCommons.org, were produced by grantees of
the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT)
program, a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S.
Department of Education.
Moderators
Cheryl Martin, program manager, U.S. Department of
Labor, Employment and Training Administration
Erin Berg, community college program specialist,
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education
Presenters
Rick Lumadue, associate director and grantee relations,
SkillsCommons.org, California State University – Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and
Online Teaching (MERLOT)
Brenda Perea, IMPACT community lead, SkillsCommons.org
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
3–4 p.m. EST
Register Here!
Featured Speakers
Michael
Flores, Ph.D., president,
Palo Alto College
Beatriz Joseph, Ph.D., vice president,
Palo Alto College
Can
continuous improvement cycles be best used to improve student learning?
Presenters will share strategies for using these cycles to spread change across
an institution and measure the impact of these changes. Mike Flores and Beatriz
Joseph will discuss Palo Alto College’s journey through the Baldrige
Performance Excellence Program and its implementation of continuous
improvement. Webinar participants will leave with a greater understanding of
continuous improvement cycles, their measurement, and their significance for
community colleges.
This
webinar is offered as part of the minority-serving community colleges’
community of practice technical assistance project. To learn more, network with
other minority-serving colleges, and sign up to receive updates on this and
future events, visit and join our LINCS Community
group.
The
Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the research arm of the U.S. Department
of Education, is inviting applications for awarding a grant to an entity that
will lead a new network on career and technical education (CTE) research. IES
will launch the entity to evaluate CTE policies and programs at the secondary
and postsecondary levels. The lead for
the Expanding the Evidence Base for Career and Technical Education Network (CTE
Network) will fulfill the requirements of the national research center that is
described in section 114 of the Carl D.
Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2016.
IES has
previously established research networks on early childhood education and
college completion. In the Request for
Applications published on Jan. 22, 2018, IES explains that the purpose of the
research networks program is to focus resources and attention on education
problems or issues that are high priorities for the nation. In addition, the
purpose is to create both a structure and process for researchers who are
working on these issues to share ideas, build new knowledge, and strengthen
their research and dissemination capacity.
The networks are intended to advance a field’s understanding of a
problem or issue beyond what an individual research project or team is able to
do on its own. The purpose is also to assist policymakers and practitioners in
using this information to strengthen education policies and programs and
improve student education outcomes.
The CTE
Network will comprise three to six research teams working on CTE evaluation
projects that have been funded under other IES competitions. The network lead for which IES has requested
applications will be responsible for coordinating the network and carrying out
research, training, and dissemination activities. Such activities will be
designed to increase the number and quality of CTE impact evaluations and to
strengthen the capacity of the field to conduct future CTE research and
evaluation projects. IES expects to
award a five-year grant of up to $5 million for the network lead. An additional $1 million will be set aside
for supplementary activities that will be implemented by network members
working together.
Applications are due by 4:30 p.m.
EST on April 5, 2018.
The
Federal Register notice announcing the competition can be found at the link
below:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/01/22/2018-00998/applications-for-new-awards-lead-of-a-career-and-technical-education-cte-network-research-networks
The
Request for Applications published by IES can be found at the link below:
https://ies.ed.gov/ncer/projects/program.asp?ProgID=101Click to edit this placeholder text.
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