Greetings all,

You may be interested in this upcoming webcast this Thursday.
Aaron

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"Aligning Career and Technical Education Programs to Real-World
Technical Skills" Focus of Next Webcast

The National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education
will present a webcast entitled "Aligning Career and Technical Education
Programs to Real-World Technical Skills" on Thursday, October 26, 2006,
from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. (EDT). This interactive event and previous
webcasts can be viewed on any computer with Internet access at
http://www.nccte.org.

All workers in the 21st century are going to need more highly developed
technical skills if our nation is going to remain competitive in the
global marketplace. Additionally, all students need to be prepared to
enter either college or employment upon completion of high school. Those
who enter employment also need to be able to earn a living wage. Career
and technical education programs play an important role in this process.

Building these rigorous career and technical programs at the state and
local levels for all students requires knowledge about what technical
skill content is needed, how the instructional content is aligned with
the required technical skills, and how student performance is evaluated
in the technical skill content area.
This program will bring together three state and local education leaders
who have developed strong technical programs. The experiences of these
leaders will help others who plan to develop similar programs.

The presenters for this webcast include the following: Bryan Butz,
Health Science Teacher and Human Services Chairman, White Knoll High
School, Lexington, SC; Wende Dallain, Career Coach, Chicago High School
for Agricultural Sciences; and John L. Davidson, Deputy Director,
Arkansas Department of Workforce Education.

Butz serves as the health sciences teacher and human services chairman
at White Knoll High School. He served on the curriculum team that
rewrote the South Carolina standards and competencies used in teaching
sports medicine classes and developed the "Sports Medicine Teacher
Resource Guide," a CD-ROM given to all new teachers of sports medicine
classes in South Carolina. He has spoken at professional development
conferences and the South Carolina Business and Education Summit. Butz
has also been very involved with the South Carolina Health Occupations
Students of America (HOSA) sports medicine competitions and his students
have won the state sports medicine competition. Butz is a graduate of
Friends University (Wichita, KS).

Dallain worked in the food industry for 10 years as a quality control
manager at Beatrice Foods, Archer Daniels Midland, and Nation Pizza
Products before becoming a teacher. She began working at the Chicago
High School for Agricultural Sciences (CHSAS) in 1987 as the head of the
Food Science Career Pathway. Since coming to the CHSAS, Dallain has been
a leader in many reform efforts-especially those connected to education
to careers. Continuing in that role, she serves as the coordinator of
the High Schools That Work initiative at the CHSAS. She earned her
degree in food science at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.

As Deputy Director for the Arkansas Department of Workforce Education,
Davidson is responsible for Secondary Career and Technical Education,
Carl D. Perkins funding, and Tech Prep. Davidson has been in Arkansas
education since 1973-as a teacher, principal, and district-level
vocational director. He is past-president of the Arkansas Vocational
Association, and received the 2003 National Educational Leader Award
from Jobs for America's Graduates. Davidson serves as cochair for the
National Law, Public Safety, and Security Career Cluster. He is a member
of the Arkansas Pygmalion Commission on Nontraditional Education, and
also serves on the board of the Multistate Academic and Vocational
Curriculum Consortium, VTECS ("A Consortium for Innovative Career and
Workplace Development Resources"), and High Schools That Work. Davidson
earned an associate degree in science from Arkansas Tech University and
a bachelor's of science degree in agriculture and a master's degree in
vocational education, both from the University of Arkansas.

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The work reported herein was supported under the National Dissemination
Center for Career and Technical Education (PR/Award No. VO51A990004)
and/or under the National Research Center for Career and Technical
Education (PR/Award No. VO51A990006), as administered by the Office of
Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education. However,
the contents do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of
the Office of Vocational and Adult Education or the U.S. Department of
Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the federal
government. The National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical
Education and the National Research Center for Career and Technical
Education are funded by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education,
U.S. Department of Education.

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Aaron Kohring
Coordinator, LINCS Literacy & Learning Disabilities Special Collection
(http://ldlink.coe.utk.edu/)
Moderator, National Institute for Literacy's Content Standards
Discussion List (http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Contentstandards)
Coordinator, Equipped for the Future Websites (http://eff.cls.utk.edu/)

Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee
EFF Center for Training and Technical Assistance
Phone:(865) 974-4109 main
      (865) 974-4258 direct
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e-mail: akohring at utk.edu