FY15 PerkinsOklahoma’s State Plan & Local ApplicationChanges

ODCTE Federal Legislation AssistanceTechnical Assistance WorkshopsMay 2014

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FY15 Perkins State Plan• Perkins administered by USDE

Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education

• Annual revisions from States due March 31Statewide Performance MeasuresLocal Performance Measures

• Local Application aligns to State Plan

• State Plan aligns to new ODCTE Business Plan

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Perkins State Plan now includes 4 of 7 Strategic Purposes of the Business Plan• Career Development• Career Readiness• Academic Enhancement• Career Preparation and Enhancement

Details of the Strategic Purposes begins on page 9 of the Business Plan located online: http://www.okcareertech.org/about/careertech-renaissance/board-approved-business-plan

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Purpose of Perkins IV: Developing & Enhancing CTE• Academic and Technical Standards• Integrate secondary and postsecondary education• Develop, implement and improve CTE• Utilize research and best practices• Provide state and local leadership that improves CTE• Support secondary and postsecondary partnerships• Provide and improve knowledge and skills

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Moving from Career Pathway to Career Major – Oklahoma’s FY15 State Plan

“The career major will be Oklahoma’s program of study for secondary and/or postsecondary students. New career majors may be added annually. All state approved career majors will be placed on the state Career Clusters website.”

www.okcareertech.org/educators/career-clusters

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Moving from Career Pathway to Career Major – Oklahoma’s FY15 State Plan

“Each eligible recipient will be required to have enrollment in at least one cluster, pathway, and career major with secondary and/or postsecondary concentrator in a career and technology education (CTE) area.”

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Moving from Career Pathway to Career Major – Oklahoma’s FY15 State Plan

“Each cluster, pathway, and career major being offered by an eligible recipient must identify a clear option to pursue postsecondary education to be eligible for Perkins funds.”

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Eligible recipients must provide students with a concentrator status• Demonstrate a working relationship between

secondary/postsecondary & creates a path to career major completion…with results

• Otherwise, join a technology center coop (secondary) or a postsecondary consortium (technology center or collegiate) that demonstrates this requirement

• Performance Measures are required on all secondary CTE, not just Tech Center secondary

We will no longer approve Perkins funds for individual courses.

Graphic model provided on slide 15

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Definition of Secondary CTE Participant

• Original Secondary CTE Participant: A secondary student who has enrolled in less than 360 course hours (3 Carnegie units of credit) in a single career and technical education (CTE) pathway.

• No change to Secondary CTE Participant: A secondary student who has enrolled in less than 360 course hours (3 Carnegie units of credit) in a single career and technical education (CTE) pathway.

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Revised definition of Secondary CTE Concentrator• Original Secondary CTE Concentrator: A secondary student who

has enrolled in three (3) or more credits in a single CTE pathway. Our State and Local Plans previously allowed high school courses to only

demonstrate leading toward concentration. This is outside the scope of being in compliance with our definition.

• Revised Secondary CTE Concentrator: A secondary student who has completed 51% of a career major based on either competency or course hours within a career major that terminates in the award of an industry-recognized credential, a certificate, or a degree.

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Existing Definitions• Local Education Agency: In general, a public board of education

or other public authority legally constituted within a state for either administrative control or direction of or to perform a service function for public elementary schools or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district or other political subdivision of a state or for a combination of school districts or counties. It is recognized in a state as an administrative agency for its public elementary schools or secondary schools.

• Secondary Credit: A secondary credit is the secondary instructional time required to earn a standard Carnegie unit for high school credit in Oklahoma.

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Definitions of Adult CTE Participant• Original Adult CTE Participant: An adult technology

center student who has enrolled in less than 360 course hours in a single career pathway.

• Revised Adult CTE Participant: An adult technology center student who has enrolled in less than 360 course hours in a career major.

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Revised definition of Adult CTE Concentrator

• Original Adult CTE Concentrator: An adult technology center student who: (1) has enrolled in 360 or more course hours within a single career pathway that terminates in the award of an industry-recognized credential, a certificate, or a degree; or (2) completes a CTE career pathway course sequence of less than 360 course hours that terminates in an industry-recognized credential, a certificate, or a degree.  An Adult Level student is enrolled in a technology center career pathway.

• Revised Adult CTE Concentrator: An adult technology center student who has completed 51% of a career major based on either competency or course hours within a career major that terminates in the award of an industry-recognized credential, a certificate, or a degree.

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No changes to definitions of Collegiate CTE Participant and ConcentratorPostsecondary (Collegiate) Level• CTE Participant: A postsecondary student who has earned one (1) or

more semester credit hours in any CTE program area. • CTE Concentrator: A postsecondary student who (1) completes at

least 30 academic or CTE credit hours toward a certificate or associate in applied science degree program that is comprised of 30 or more academic and technical credit hours; or (2) completes a short-term CTE program sequence of less than 30 credit hours that terminates in an industry-recognized credential, a certificate, or a degree.

Note:30 credit hours are based on 50 percent of a typical associate in applied science (AAS) degree program length.

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Existing Definitions• Postsecondary/Adult Student: A student who is no

longer enrolled in a comprehensive school system or its equivalent and is enrolled in a CTE career major or course. Students beyond the compulsory age for high school who are enrolled in an educational program.

• Post Secondary Credit: A postsecondary credit is the instructional time equal to requirements to earn a college credit in Oklahoma.

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Perkins Performance Measures for Concentrators

Secondary (High School & Technology Center)Academic Attainment – Reading/Language Arts*Academic Attainment – Mathematics*Technical Skill AttainmentSchool CompletionGraduation Rate*Student PlacementNon-Traditional Participation Non-Traditional Completion

* provided to ODCTE by the Oklahoma SDE

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Perkins Performance Measures for Concentrators

Technology Center AdultTechnical Skill AttainmentIndustry-recognized credential, certificate, or degreeStudent Retention/TransferStudent PlacementNon-Traditional ParticipationNon-Traditional Completion

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Perkins Performance Measures for Concentrators

CollegiateTechnical Skill Attainment Industry-recognized credential, certificate, or degreeStudent Retention/Transfer Student Placement Non-Traditional Participation Non-Traditional Completion

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FY15 Perkins Online Application

http://www.okcareertech.org/fla/open.Perkins/BasicGrant/0.0_Welcome.asp

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Q & A•Does your district / institution offer career major

concentration(s)?This applies to the secondary and postsecondary

consortium partners as well.•At the end of the year can you prove it with

student follow-up data?

•Scenarios and Q&A•Now what?

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Contact Info•Janet Cooper janet.cooper@careertech.ok.gov

405.743.5013

•Josh Miller josh.miller@careertech.ok.gov405.743.5401

• Impact https://www.okcareertech.org/impact/

•FLA Home Page http://www.okcareertech.org/fla/

•Perkins Blog http://okcarlperkins.blogspot.com/

•FY15 Applicationhttp://www.okcareertech.org/fla/open.Perkins/BasicGrant/0.0_Welcome.asp

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CareerTech Strategic Purposes• Career development – Assure students have the

knowledge and skills to make informed career choices and to create education plans to be prepared for those careers.

• Foundational Career readiness – Assure students know how to analyze issues, resolve problems, work with others, and adapt to complex workplaces. Creativity, problem solving and critical thinking skills are core to career readiness.

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CareerTech Strategic Purposes• Work and family studies – Assure students

develop specific life skills that operate in synergy with career skills. This will allow Oklahomans to be more productive by balancing work and family life through personal resource management, health and wellness, time management and other similar skills.

• Academic enhancement – Assure students develop the academic knowledge and skills required by students’ career choices.

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CareerTech Strategic Purposes• Core Career preparation and enhancement – Develop

students’ technical knowledge and skills required to succeed in postsecondary education or careers or to advance within careers.

• Customized training and consulting – Design and deliver training and consulting based upon an organization’s specific requirements. Training is designed to refine an organization’s existing or soon-to-be-hired workforce to produce a specific business result. Consulting is required for an organization to compete more effectively in the marketplace.

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CareerTech Strategic Purposes • Support Curriculum and assessment services –

Provide curriculum and assessment products to schools. The customer base is international in scope and includes Oklahoma schools