A Note from Rebecca Wallace, CTE Executive Director
Program Re-Approval Schedule Update
For the program re-approval application to maximize efficiency,
it is imperative that districts are able to correct all courses, in the course
approval system, prior to the program re-approval launch. In reflection of the
previously published timelines, OSPI will be amending process to the following
dates. The program re-approval district view-only access will open from January
1-January 31. During this time, districts will be able to view all courses by
program area, and still be able to make necessary corrections, in the course
approval system, which will update to program re-approval prior to the live
launch. All districts must have courses approved correctly to pull into the
re-approval system by January 31. The program re-approval will launch on
February 1, and close on March 31. It is during this time that districts will be
able to upload required documentation, and submit each program area for
approval. These amended dates reflect a shift, of an additional 30 days, for
districts to make any necessary corrections.
Previous Dates:
- December 1: View Only
- January 1-February 28: Program Re-Approval Open for Submission
Amended Dates:
- January 1-31: View Only
- February 1-March 31: Program Re-Approval Open for Submission
If you have questions, please contact Rebecca Wallace.
Advisory Time
Regarding: Advisory time- Advisory time can be claimed as passing time provided that
all of the following requirements are met:
- All students at school during the advisory time
are required to attend.
- The time is supervised by a certified
instructional staff.
- Attendance is taken.
- When combined with class change passing time,
the total passing time does not exceed 20% of the daily instructional time.
If all these requirements are met, the advisory time can be
applied proportionally as passing time to the other periods of the day. CTE
courses’ FTE can include the advisory time – provided that the advisory time is
consistently applied to all courses of the day.
GAMA Annual Competition
The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) hosts
an annual competition, the Aviation Design Challenge, to promote STEM skills in
U.S. high school students through aviation. GAMA recently opened registration for
the 2018 competition. The competition is open to the first 110 high schools who enter, or until January 13, 2018. The competition is free
and GAMA provides a curriculum and software through a partnership with Fly to Learn
and X-Plane. The winning team receives an all-expenses-paid, two-week trip to
experience general aviation manufacturing firsthand.
You can learn more about the Aviation Design Challenge, and
register, on GAMA's website. If you need additional information, please contact GAMA directly at 202-393-1500 or via email.
Boeing Application Events
Boeing is hosting several hiring events
across the state of Washington. There is a huge need to fill these jobs for Boeing. You will also find a number
of Boeing job postings here.
What is this event?
Boeing
is actively seeking applicants for open positions in non-management
manufacturing fields and is hosting application events in various locations
across Washington State. At these events attendees can create online profiles,
apply for open positions, and speak with HR personnel. Current open examples of
positions are assembler, hand finisher, functional test, painter, and many
more. Boeing is looking for applicants who have recently graduated from
academic manufacturing programs, to include high school and community college
programs. Programs such as construction, automotive mechanic/collision,
electrical, precision machining, welding, aircraft mechanic, and other like
manufacturing programs.
Hiring event information:
November 20th: Pierce County Worksource, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, 1305 Tacoma Ave. S., Tacoma
November 26th: Olympic College, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, 1600 Chester Ave., Bremerton
November 27th: Snohomish County Worksource, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, 3201 Smith Ave., Everett
Please contact Boeing with any questions.
 WA State FFA Executive Director Named NASAE Outstanding Young Member of the Year
Abbie DeMeerleer, Washington State FFA Executive Director, has been named the National Association of State Agricultural Educators (NASAE) Outstanding Young Member of the Year. This October, Abbie, and Dennis Wallace (Agricultural Education Program Supervisor) traveled to Indianapolis for the National FFA Convention and NASAE National Conference.
The NASAE Conference included updates, policy changes, and implementation of programs with respect to laws and regulations from the USOE and National FFA. The National FFA Convention is the student leadership conference for all FFA members.
The FFA COnvention included opportunities to be aware of, and gain, implementation strategies for changes in operation of Agriculture Education and the National FFA Organization as well as spend time with Washington's FFA students and leaders.
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 National FFA Convention
The state of Washington was represented, at the 2017 90th National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, by 450 students and teachers. To view a full list of the National winners, click here.
Pictured left to right: L to R: Matt
Rounsley - State Sentinel (Tenino), Kelci Scharff - State Reporter (Cheney), Ali
Hennigar (Colton), Sydney Klaveano - State Treasurer (Pullman), Sadie Aronson
(White River), Taylor Enns - State Secretary (White River), Mollee Gray - State
Vice President (Medical Lake), Seth Smith - State President (Tonasket).
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 Fall WA-ACTE
The CTE team, and OSPI staff, attended the Fall Washington Association for Career and Technical Education conference in Grand Mound on November 2nd and 3rd. The team discussed equivalency, re-approvals, and many other topics. Please email us if you are interested in receiving the powerpoints presentations shown during the conference.
Pictured from left to right: Dan Tedor, STEM Program Supervisor, Santa!, Lance Wrzesinski, Business and Marketing Program Supervisor, Ellen Ebert, Science and Environmental Education Program Supervisor, and Marianna Goheen, Health Sciences Program Supervisor.
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Washington Technology Student Association Fall Leadership
WTSA, Middle School, Fall Leadership took place at the
University of Washington, on November 7th. Middle School TSA members worked in
teams to design, evaluate, and build their very own cardboard boats! Students
tested their boats in the pool, and several teams were successful in their
voyage across the pool. What a great application of STEM methods! Way to go
TSA!
 OSPI Team Visits West Sound Tech Skill Center
On November 7th, Michaela Miller, Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction, Kathe Taylor, Assistant Superintendent of Leanring and Teaching, and Rebecca Wallace, Executive Director of Career and Technical Education, spent the morning with students and teachers at the West Sound Tech Skill Center in Bremerton. The OSPI team had a great time learning from the students and teachers and touring the beautiful facility.
Pictured from left to front: Kathe Taylor, Assistant Superintendent Learning and Teaching, Michaela Miller, Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction, Adam Brockman, 11th grade West Sound Tech Skill Center Student, Rebecca Wallace, Executive Director of Career and Technical Education, and Bela Kivacs, West Sound Tech Skill Center Welding Teacher.
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Learning and Teaching Update
To read more about Learning and Teaching and to read monthly Learning and Teaching updates, visit their newsletter webpage.
Free Online STARS Training Course
Nurturing Young Eaters is a new training course for early learning professionals from the University of Washington Center for Public Health Nutrition. The goal of this training is to empower early learning professionals to provide engaging and healthy mealtime environments and take advantage of mealtime opportunities to promote learning and child development. This training also highlights how providing engaging mealtime environments can help earn points for Early Achievers, Washington's quality rating and improvement system. Participants who complete the training will earn 1 STARS continuing education credit in Health, Safety & Nutrition. This online training is made freely available to early learning professionals thanks to support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Washington State Department of Health.
More Information
Teacher Trainings for the Mental Health & High School Curriculum Resource
Two teacher trainings, for the Mental Health & High
School Curriculum Resource, are being held on December 6, in Tacoma.
OSPI has
identified the Mental Health & High School Curriculum Resource for
use in high schools. These teacher trainings will prepare classroom
teachers, in the use of the Mental Health & High School Curriculum
Resource in their classroom, providing a basic overview of mental health, and illness, and orientation, to the teaching materials. The resource improves
mental health literacy, and it is widely taught in schools across Canada, and internationally. The material is medically accurate, designed for
classroom settings, and all teaching materials can be downloaded at no
cost.
OSPI has
mapped the Mental Health & High School Curriculum Resource to the
Health Education K-12 Learning Standards (revised 2016), and it aligns with all
eight learning standards (H1-8) when the full curriculum resource is
implemented with fidelity.
Teacher
Training Info:
- Participants
should be teachers who plan to teach the curriculum resource, and who have
support to attend from building or district administrators
- Clock
hours provided through OSPI and Project AWARE. Sign-in and course
evaluation required.
- Offered
at no cost, with lunch provided
- Training
hours are 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
- Tacoma
location will be provided when registration has been confirmed
- We
request teachers share implementation information after teaching
Registration:
December 6: https://www.pdenroller.org/Catalog/Event/48548
Additional teacher trainings are planned in early 2018 – please email Rachael Wagoner to be added to the interest/notification list.
We
appreciate your help letting high school teachers and administrators know about
these Teacher Training opportunities!
Mental
Health & High School Curriculum Resource Training Coordination Team:
- Deb Binion
- Mandy Paradise
- Rachael Wagoner
- Monet Craton
Bringing the Mental
Health & High School Curriculum Resource to Washington students is a
partnership between the WA Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction’s
Project AWARE, the Jordan Binion Project, and CHI Franciscan Health’s Prevent-Avert-Respond (PAR)
Initiative. We thank Comprehensive Life Resources for their collaboration
in providing these Teacher Trainings.
Rachael Wagoner
Phone: 360-725-6247 Email
Introduction to Teaching Health Science as a Career Pathway Online Course
The Eastern Washington Area Health Education Center (EWAHEC) is offering an online course, “Introduction to Teaching Health Science as a Career Pathway”. The course was offered as a pilot in the summer of 2017, and has been adjusted and improved.
The course takes approximately one hour, per day, across two weeks, for a total of ten hours. The EWAHEC is working with OSPI to provide clock hours to teachers for taking the course.
Spring 2018 Session: 4/9-4/20/2018
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the range of health care careers available.
- Learn to effectively advise students in healthcare career options.
- Demonstrate understanding of the National Consortium of Health Science Standards and Accountability Criteria including areas of heath careers, communication, legal and medical ethics, wellness, teamwork, human growth and development, mental health, nutrition, infection control, and vital signs.
- Participate in various learning activities using Common Core Standards.
- Describe, analyze, and evaluate various teaching methods/techniques and curricula for health science education. Register here.
Cancer Happens Teen Education
Cancer Happens is a cancer education, and risk reduction, program offered, free of charge, to middle, and high school, classrooms, nationwide. The Cancer Happens curriculum provides important cancer education for teens.The program includes standards-based lesson plans, as well as a teacher guide, designed to help navigate the online program, and provide more information on ways to support your students. Some of the topics include: understanding what cancer is and who gets it, cancers that impact teenagers, risk factors for cancer, healthy living and risk reduction, the importance of nutrition and exercise, and how to more effectively communicate with those you care about.
Click here to book a presentation or register for e-learning modules. For more information, you can also contact Jana Mastrogiovanni at jana@cancerpathways.org or 1-866-200-2383.
November 2017
Next Generation Science and Engineering for Equity
November 29 | Microsoft Conference Center | Redmond WA | More Information
The Family Dinner Project: Overcoming Barriers to Improve Family Meals
November 29 | Webinar | Registration (Please register by November 28th)
December
2017
Mental Health & High School Curriculum Resource
December 6 | Comprehensive Life Resources (CLR) |Tacoma WA | More Information
December 6-9 | Gaylord Opryland Resort
& Convention Center | Nashville, TN | More
Information
January 2018
Mental Health & High School Curriculum Resource Teacher Training
January 19 | North Central ESD Cottonwood Retreat Center | Wenatchee, WA | Registration
CTE Program Area Updates
Agriculture Education Sciences
Questions regarding Agriculture Education? Contact Denny
Wallace, Agriculture Sciences Education Program Supervisor, via email or
call 360-725-6241.
AP/CTE
Questions regarding Advanced Placement? Contact Barbara Dittrich, Advanced
Placement Program Supervisor, via email or call 360-725-6097.
Business and Marketing
Get involved on the Business Leadership Council
Interested in getting involved in the Washington DECA Business
Leadership Council? Email
Questions regarding Business and Marketing, Microsoft Imagine
Academy, Work-Based Learning, DECA and FBLA? Contact Lance Wrzesinski, Business
and Marketing Program Supervisor, via email or call
360-725-6258.
CTE Certification
Questions regarding CTE Certification? Contact Kelli Bennett, CTE
Certification Specialist, via email or call 360-725-6400.
Graduation, Reality, and Dual-role Skills (GRADS)
Questions regarding the GRADS Program? Contact Denise
Mileson, GRADS Program Specialist, via email or
call 360-725-0417.
Grants and Special Programs
Questions regarding Perkins, grants and special programs? Contact Debra Durupt, Grants and Innovative Programs Program Supervisor, via email or
call 360-725-6253.
Family and Consumer Science Education
Free Nutrition Education Resources
Every teacher in Washington State can receive $25 of free nutrition education resources from EatSmart.org! Use your Council Cash and get great materials for your class! Learn how by clicking here. Do your
students have questions about sugar sweetened beverages? Are you looking for
ways to explain the new nutrition labels? Help your
students “Think Your Drink” with Beverage Cards, Posters, Worksheets and Lesson
Plans here.
Engaging Your Infants and Toddlers Through Cognitive Science and the CDA
Engage
and apply cognitive practices in your early childhood setting today with this
article which include helpful tips and advice from experts: Cognitive Learning Begins at
Birth: Take Part in Infants and Toddlers’ Brain Development
The
infant/toddler credential allows opportunity for advancing your professional
development opportunities, learning about the latest scientific findings in
cognitive/brain development, and working with developmentally appropriate
practices with infants, toddlers, and their families through training,
learning materials (e.g. Essentials
and the CDA Competency Standards),
and experience. Share
the articles with the families you work with – start a conversation!
FCCLA ADVISER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
Are you a new adviser, here, in Washington FCCLA, and feel
overwhelmed at times? Have no fear, everyone has been there before, and
our goal is to relieve you of that stress. Sign-up at the here for the FCCLA Adviser
Mentorship Program.
Relationships are Key to Brain Development
Success
As a CDA, PDS, early educator or parent, you
know how important every moment of a young child’s life is when it comes to
acquiring new learning experiences. This applies to the infant and toddler
years, when daily connections have the ability to influence and help create
brain development with every word, emotion, and interaction. Here’s how to
harness this magnificent world of opportunity for children! Ari Wubbold, early education expert for
Brain Building Oregon, shares easy ways and useful resources to integrate
introductory brain development knowledge while interacting with young
children: Practical Ways Parents and
Educators Can Encourage Brain Development in Young Children. Print or share this article with
friends and family who can benefit from these tips – it’s easy!
WA-CTE-CTSO ASL Regional and State Competition 2018
West Side Regional Competition March 10, 2018
Burlington-Edison High School- Burlington, WA
Contact: Liza Bancroft
Email: lbancroft@ be.wednet.edu Phone: (360) 757-4074 Ext 3551
East Side Regional Competition March 24, 2018
Moses Lake High School- Moses Lake, WA
Contact: Kristi Couch
Email: kcouch@mlsd.wednet.edu Phone: (509)766-2666 Ext 40810
Questions regarding Family and Consumer Sciences? Contact Mary Nagel, Family and Consumer Sciences Program Supervisor, via email or call 360-725-6242.
Health Sciences Education
Questions regarding Health Sciences Education?
Contact Marianna Goheen, Health Sciences Education Program Supervisor, via email or
call 360-725-6257.
Methods of Administration Civil Rights Onsite
Reviews
Questions regarding Methods of Administration Civil Rights
Onsite Reviews? Contact Deifi Stolz, Methods of Administration Program
Supervisor, via email or
call 360-725-6254.
Skilled and Technical Sciences
Questions regarding Skilled and Technical
Sciences? Contact Doug Meyer, Interim Skilled and Technical Sciences Program Supervisor, via email or
call 360-725-6244.
STEM
Questions regarding Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)? Contact Dan Tedor, STEM Program Supervisor, via email or call 360-725-4467.
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