A Note from Rebecca Wallace, CTE Executive Director
iGrants Updates
Washington State K-12 Computer Science Standards Updates Public Comment Period
Bulletin 003-18
Action required due date: February 15, 2018
Re: Washington State K-12 Computer Science Standards updates public comment period
Summary: This bulletin provides information regarding the released updates to the Washington State K-12 Computer Science Standards. The updates are available for public comment from January 15, 2018, through February 15, 2018.
The public comment survey will be available through February 15. No individual responses from the survey will be reported. The data gathered will be used to revise standards and grade-level outcomes, if needed, and to inform considerations for technical assistance needed to help districts implement the standards. If you have questions about this bulletin, please contact Shannon Thissen, Computer Science Program Supervisor, at 360-725-6092 or email shannon.thissen@k12.wa.us. For additional information on the Washington State K–12 Computer Science Standards, visit the Computer Science website at http://www.k12.wa.us/Computer Science/LearningStandards.aspx.
Key Audiences: Educational Service District Superintendents, School District Superintendents, School District Curriculum Administrators, Career and Technical Education (CTE) Directors, School Principals
Shannon L. Thissen
Computer Science Program Supervisor
Learning and Teaching
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
600 Washington Ave. SE 98504-7200
P.O. Box 47200, Olympia, WA 98504-7200
Office: 360-725-6092
Shannon.Thissen@k12.wa.us
www.k12.wa.us
2017 Hour of Code
Hour of Code at OSPI
The Washington state Office of
Superintendent of Public Instruction hosted an "Hour of Code" event
on December 5, 2017. Hour of Code, started by the organization Code.org, is
part of Computer Science Education Week. At this year's Hour of Code
celebration, OSPI was grateful to have the help of two seniors from Highline
High School and 10 third-graders from a North Thurston Elementary School.
Hour of Code at Baker Middle School
Global
awareness for Computer Science Education (CSE) celebrated the first week of December;
at all grade levels, and in over 130 countries, through Hour of Code activities
with Code.org. A fundamental tenet of CSE, through Code.org, is a belief that all students, regardless of their proximity to the Silicon Valley, or family
involvement with computers, need opportunity to access and achieve success
using technology of the 21st Century. Hour of code activities focus
on team collaboration to pose problems and apply computational thinking to
solve problems.
Baker Middle
School (Principal Amy Latimore, CTE Teacher Monte Gibbs, and all Science
Teachers) coordinated a school-wide collaboration to ensure all students have
access to participate in Hour of Code through their science classes! Students
have opportunity to extend learning beyond the school day through
individualized coding activities, and can earn hats in recognition of their
achievements.
CTE at the National ACTE Conference in Nashville, TN
Outstanding Agricultural Education Award
Congratulations to Tamara Whitcomb of Mt. Baker High School. Tamara won the Outstanding Agricultural Education Teacher award at the 2017 National ACTE conference.
WAAE Outstanding Service Citation
Retired Washington teacher, and current
Washington FFA Career Development Event Coordinator, Phil Renz, receives the
Outstanding Service Citation at the National Association of Agricultural
Educators (NAAE) Conference. Phil was nominated for his lifetime of service to
students and the profession by the Washington FFA and the WAAE (Washington Association
of Agriculture Educators).
WAAE XLR8 Participants
 Learning Inspection Processes for Restaurants
Kerra Gallagher, Environmental Health Specialist for the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, recently visited Wilson High School ProStart Culinary (CTE Teacher Louisa Christensen) for a routine restaurant health inspection. Ms. Gallagher is advising school administration on requirements for meeting health and safety standards for having the program officially approved as a licensed catering company. It was a rare opportunity in allowing future “employees” (students) to meet for consulting prior to the inspection.
Great experience for all – not a minute to waste in preparing students for life after high school!
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 Foss DECA at Regional Competition
Congratulations to Foss High School DECA (CTE Marketing Teacher Haylee Rice) for the recent success of students at the Area 7 DECA Conference in Tacoma!
Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) is a leadership organization for high school students to network with students and professionals in gaining invaluable communication skills for transitioning into life after high school! The competition provides opportunity for students to focus deeper level learning on specialized content of personal interest.
8 students placed in the Top 10 of their categories!
John Diamond – 3rd Place – Accounting Applications
Hannah Lee – 3rd Place – Business Finance
Shkurte Berisha – 6th place – Business Finance
Michael Gribbon – 6th place – Entrepreneurship
Jessica Gonzaga – 2nd place – Food Marketing
George Conzuelo – 2nd Place – Human Resource Management
Fiona Knight-Strozier – 5th Place – Quick Serve Restaurant Management
Marie Gerard – TOP 10 – Marketing Communications
Jordan Montano – TOP 10 – Hotel and Lodging Management
Way to go Falcons!
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WSBEA Honors Business Educators
WSBEA would like to congratulate two outstanding business educators who will be honored at the annual WBEA Conference in Boise, Idaho, February 18, 2018. Terri King, Business Teacher and FBLA Adviser from Odessa, will be honored as the Western Business Education Association Outstanding CTSO Adviser. Adam Smith, Business Teacher and FBLA Adviser from Cheney, will be honored as the Western Business Education Association Outstanding Business Secondary Educator. Congratulations to both Terri and Adam for the exemplary service to students and business education.
Lake Stevens High School FCCLA PSA entry has been selected as the 2017-2018 Safe Rides – Save Lives PSA Contest First Place Winner
Lake Stevens High School's FCCLA chapter's, advised by Kathy Hahn, PSA entry has been selected as the 2017-2018 Safe Rides – Save LivesPSA Contest First Place Winner. The chapter will be awarded with the First Place Award of $3,500, which will be given to the chapter at the 2018 National Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA. The PSA will be shown during this year’s 2018 National Leadership Conference (June 28-July 2 in Atlanta, GA).
Washington
State student launches her career with Microsoft Office Specialist
Certifications!
Ashley Masters is a senior student from Kalama High
School, hoping to eventually earn a degree in Business Finance. Through OSPI’s Microsoft Imagine Academy Program, she has received nine Microsoft
Office Specialist certifications. She has also led a team of high school students
in a community service project where they taught Microsoft Office skills to
women from a shelter in her neighboring town, using donated laptops to achieve
Microsoft Office Specialist Word Certifications. In addition, the team also gathered 450 professional clothing items to
help the women have better hiring opportunities.
Ashley’s own professional journey began early after she posted on Facebook
about her win in the Excel Expert competition at the Future Business Leaders of
America (FBLA) national competition. Pacific Tech, a large national
construction company, noticed the posting and offered her a job training their
secretaries in Excel spreadsheets a few days a week. A short while later, they
hired her permantently at the age of 15!
OSPI offers the Microsoft Imagine Academy Program for all Middle and
High Schools across the State. There is no cost to the school or to the
student. If your school is not offering this program, please contact waschools@ccilearning.com to get
started!
Teaching Life Skills Key for Award Winning WSU Educator
Balancing a checkbook is a learned skill. Preparing a healthy meal, managing healthy relationships, parenting, and making informed consumer decisions are, too. Many people aren’t aware that these skills are taught in school as well as on the home front.
Debbie Handy, here with WSU Provost Dan Bernardo, also received a Provost’s Featured Faculty recognition in 2017 at a WSU men’s basketball game.
That’s where Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) comes in: FCS classes teach life skills during the formative middle school and high school years. And those classes need teachers, which is Debbie Handy’s job—to teach the teachers. Handy oversees Washington State University’s FCS education program, advising and teaching WSU students who become teachers.
WSU’s program is part of the Department of Human Development.
Late last year, Handy was selected as the first ever Washington Family and Consumer Sciences Education Teacher Educator of the Year at the Family and Consumer Sciences Annual Conference.
“The life skills we teach are things students will use every day,” she said. “It’s inspiring to be part of that, and help train future generations of teachers.”
Continue reading here.
 Lincoln HS Partners for Tacoma Home and Garden Show
Lincoln High School Construction Trades Program (CTE Teacher Kevin Smith) partnered with Master Builders Association – Pierce County (Communications Manager Lisa Simmons) and Rebuilding Together South Sound (Executive Director Amy Hoyt) for framing of the public information booth at the 2018 Tacoma Home and Garden Show, convening January 25 – 28, at the Tacoma Dome.
Lincoln students constructed the booth to Unified Building Code (UBC) standards for home construction in meeting the space requirements allowed by the show coordinator. The booth will be staffed by a variety of local contractors promoting construction related services available in the region.
Partnerships matter: win-win for kids and community!
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EmPower Women's Leadership Conference
This Second Annual event will bring together women in nontraditional careers to celebratetheir success as leaders, inspire other women to find and embrace their inner leader, and showcase the possibilities when women succeed in nontraditional careers.
Men and women should attend to join this shared movement to encourage more women to "lean in" as leaders and support recruitment of more women into these career opportunities.
Click here for more information about Washington's premier leadership conference for women in nontraditional careers. March 8, 2018 at the Lynnwood Convention Center, Lynnwood, WA.
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
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.
CTE STEM Robotics 101 Professional Development Now Available at all ESDs Statewide
This 2-day introductory professional development workshop will equip secondary teachers to utilize the rich set of free STEM Robotics 101 curriculum resources to customize a CTE STEM Robotics course that plays to their strengths while meeting the unique needs of their students and goals of their administrators. This CTE-specific version of the Robo101 PD will include reviewing the OSPI-approved master CTE Frameworks and model Leadership Equivalencies for both middle and high school. Participants will learn how to modify these documents to reflect their local implementation of STEM Robotics 101 and their selected CTE Leadership Activities.
STEM Robotics 101 (http://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/2643) is a free STEM+CS curriculum for new Robotics teachers developed by the Olympia School District and deployed worldwide with the help of two National Science Foundation Projects to 3,500+ registered teacher-users.
The registration fee for the 2-day CTE STEM Robotics 101 Introductory PD is $295 and includes:
1. The two-day hands-on professional development (computers, software and robots supplied) with an experienced instructor
2. Twelve (12) OSPI-certified STEM Clock Hours (for certification purposes)
3. Customizable OSPI-approved master Framework and model Leadership Equivalency
4. A free turn-key/customizable curriculum and online repository
5. A one-time 5% discount off the best internet volume pricing on a classroom set of LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 kits and accessories
6. Eligibility for STEM Robotics 101 Lesson Bounty Program, with a teacher-stipend for adding new lessons to STEM Robotics 101
7. Eligibility for Advanced Topics Professional Development, including Advanced LEGO Programming, Robo-Math, Robo-Science, Data Logging, Technology-demystification lessons, Java Programming on the LEGO EV3 and FLL Primers.
Further details are available on this FIRST Washington FAQ page:
https://1drv.ms/w/s!Ak4YFCRSnfEAgY5px-CStbB2hWWFxg
Workshops will be limited to 8 to 12 teachers to maximize impact for all participants.
Register early to secure a spot at your local ESD here:
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/ac1c847b42344863afb01f2ead8d89dd
February 2018
Core Plus Maritime Workshops | February 1, 2018 | More Information
March 2018
Washington's Premier Leadership Conference for Women in Nontraditional Careers | March 8, 2018 | More Information
8th Annual Connecting for Children Conference | March 24, 2018 | More Information
April 2018
Fashion Industry Conference | April 28, 2018 | More Information
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
A New Year, New MOS Competition!
Now’s the time to certify and prepare to compete in
the 2018 MOS US National Championship Spring Qualifier!
Students across WA are already using MOS certification to qualify for the MOS
US National Championship. In order to be named a 2018 MOS WA Spring Qualifier
Champion, students must earn the highest score in WA on one of the following
exams by June 15th:
- Microsoft Office
Specialist Word 2013
- Microsoft Office
Specialist Excel 2013
- Microsoft Office
Specialist PowerPoint 2013
- Microsoft Office
Specialist Word 2016
- Microsoft Office
Specialist Excel 2016
- Microsoft Office
Specialist PowerPoint 2016
But
competing in the MOS US National Championship isn’t just about earning high
scores. It’s about giving your students the gifts they need to succeed.
Learn more
at www.moschampionship.com or contact waschools@ccilearning.com for
assistance.
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
Inspire Design
Careers With A Free Student/School Membership
National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) has promoted education in design and related fields for years and
has helped colleges and universities prepare thousands of students for
lucrative careers in the $134 billion kitchen and bath design and
remodeling industry. The NKBA Affiliated Schools Program puts your
institution on the fast track to providing your students with a roadmap
to abundant jobs in a rewarding career — undoubtedly a key objective of
education. Best of all, membership is free to schools, educators and students. Join NKBA today take advantage of all the benefits,
including:
- Access
to discussion forums with other educators and industry
professionals;
- Lesson
plan repositories, best-practice guides, curriculum and other
resources;
- Networking
opportunities with other schools and NKBA’s 70 professional
chapters;
- Access
to online internship and mentorship matching centers;
- Professional
knowledge webinars and online programs;
…and much
more.
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 Sarah Patterson, 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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