Region II Professional Development Conference
This year's Region II Professional Development Conference will be held in Savannah, Georgia. It will take place on September 25-27, 2009. If you would like more information on this meeting please see the Conference Packet or contact the FACTE Office.
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Green Awareness for the Workplace
If you are interested in an innovative and relevant topic for your classroom, then you should look into Atlantic Technical Center's "Green Awareness for the Workplace." This brief packet includes Propose Student Performance Standards and several links to informative resouces. Check it out!
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Mini-Grant Opportunity
The Division of Career and Adult Education Professional Development Institute provides "mini-grant" opportunities to assist secondary, technical center, and Florida college career and technical education (CTE) teachers in achieving industry certification. These mini-grants can be used to receive training through public or private providers in the State of Florida that offer training leading directly to industry certification. Click here to learn more about this opportunity.
Florida Online Reading Professional Development
The Division of Career and Adult Education is excited about our continued partnership with the Just Read, Florida! Office. As we continue to expand our efforts to provide reading intervention through Career and Technical Education (CTE) classrooms, we are pleased to announce another opportunity for CTE teachers to complete the Florida Online Reading Professional Development (FOR-PD) program. Follow this link to LEARN MORE about the FOR-PD program. If you would like to apply for this opportunity, please click here.
"Enviropals"
"Enviropals" is a new PBS children’s program that will be broadcast in Central Florida beginning this Saturday. It will be broadcast nationally beginning in February. This show was created, produced, and everything else by two of Volusia County School’s Career and Technical Education Teachers. Ray Grimard is a Production Technology teacher at Seabreeze High School and Don Brunning is the TV Production teacher at Atlantic High School. Click here to learn more about this story.
Video Contest
The "Act Out for Health" contest has been announced.See flyer for more information.
The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) has declared February as National Career and Technical Education Month (CTE Month). This year’s theme is Invest in Your Future, which highlights the critical role that career and technical education plays in developing youth and adults for the workforce. Schools across the state and nation will showcase CTE programs through activities that illustrate the significance of CTE and its impact on the economic growth of the country. Schools will host a variety of events including open houses, job fairs, expositions, guest speakers and government officials. Nationally, more than 15 million students are taking CTE courses where they are acquiring the skills and knowledge to meet the needs of the country for a skilled, qualified and competitive workforce.
How Will You Celebrate CTE Month?
Charlotte County has a whole list of ways they will be celebrating the success of Career and Technical Education in their school system. If you are in need of some fresh ideas, check out Charlotte County's List!
Career Education of the School District of Palm Beach County cordially invites to attend the 2010 Career Academy Showcase which is open to all educators, administrators, and business and local community leaders. Fourteen high schools in Palm Beach County will be showcasing their nationally recognized Career Academies. Participants will tour the Career Academies, listen to formal presentations and interact informally with students and staff. This experience will provide attendees the opportunity to learn Best Practices of the academies, share your experience with colleagues, and network with other districts from around the country.
Manatee County is continually working to spread the word of everything that is happening within their excellent CTE programs. Visit their Website to see current examples of their many publications!
Visit our national association, ACTE, to find out what events are happening nation-wide in celebration of CTE Month. You can even browse their online store for great CTE Month Products!
Florida is having their first ever CTE on the Hill Day. Proposed activities include the issuance of a Proclamation by Governor Crist and recognition of the state winning team for the Real Design Challenge (Lt. Governor Kottkamp). Additionally, CTE Students from across the state will be demonstrating skills learned in CTE classrooms. Many of the state officers from the ten state Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSO’s) will also be in attendance and the 2009-10 Florida Association of Career and Technical Association’s Outstanding Teachers of the Year (Rookie teacher, Teacher of the Year and Outstanding Community Service Teacher of the Year) and CTE teachers of the year winning other state and national organizations will be invited to a luncheon in their honor. Click the flyer below for more information:
The 2010 Career Academies on the Hill Conference will be held April 14-15th at the Doubletree Hotel in Tallahassee, Florida. This year marks the fourth annual occurence of this event, which is hosted by the Florida Parental School Choice Consortium (FPSCC). The site of this year's conference is within walking distance to the Florida House and Senate buildings. The Career Academies on the Hill Conference brings the achievements and concerns of Career Academies to the legislature's frontdoor. This conference is also an excellent opportunity to learn more about industry certification and scheduling in Career Academies. If you are interested in being part of this event you must register soon! The hotel deadline is March 19th at noon. More information can be found by visiting www.fpscc.net.
Meetings
OPPAGA Meeting at Seminole State College
2nd Annual Joint CTE “Engaged Development of the Future Economy”
Special Thanks to Keynote Speaker Dr. Erin Baird, Featured Speaker Joseph A Leblanc from NASA and all the presenters. Thank you to the over 120 attendees focusing on improving their professional skills while collaborating with colleagues from around the state. Thank you to the exhibitors for supporting the conference with your attendance and sharing of valuable resources with our educators. This joint collaboration epitomizes the mission of FACTE, which is to facilitate the leadership and partnerships essential for the successful preparation of individuals to participate in a world-class work force.
Online Classes
We are beginning our new season of online courses supported by a Perkins grant from the Florida Division of Career and Adult Education and delivered by FACTE (Florida Association for Career and Technical Education. Please see below one of the very popular courses we are offering. Registrations are accepted on a first come first serve basis.
Career Academies - Building Successful Foundations I
Instructor: Paula Fugel, Educational Consulting Services
Phone/FAX: 352-542-1409
Time Frame: October 5th thru November 9 with live sessions on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.
Description: This is a 6 week online training program that will provide participants the knowledge and strategies needed for planning and implementing a career academy or to strengthen an existing career academy.
Connected Classrooms
Instructors:
Time Frame: This course begins October 11, 2010. The D2L system is available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You may work in the course at any time: day or night, weekday or weekend. The live online sessions will be held on Mondays on Elluminate at 7:00pm (eastern time); these weekly live help sessions will usually last for one hour. The first and last sessions live sessions will last for approximately 2-3 hours.
Description: This course is designed to provide participants with the basic knowledge and skills required to develop and facilitate effective, learner-centered connected classrooms. Course topics include online pedagogy, learning styles, site planning and design, utilization of communication tools, transformation of course content, introduction to multimedia, and online assessment strategies.
Student Competitions
Call for Entries – Get Started Today!
The STEMflorida Multimedia Student Competition is a digital marketing contest open to high school students, grades 9-12. The goal of the competition is to engage students in creating marketing campaign materials that will appeal to their peers for a statewide branding campaign. The campaign will increase awareness of the need to develop a STEM proficient workforce and career opportunities in Florida’s economy.
Key components of the competition include: video, website design, online ads and poster. Students may compete as individuals or in teams of no more than 5 students per team. Student winner(s) are eligible to receive a Flip video camera! The deadline to register is October 1, 2010. Final projects are not due until November 18, 2010.
To find out more about the competition and to participate, visit
www.URSTEM.com .
Creative Ideas Wanted to Promote Florida KidCare
Act-Out for Health Contest Returns for Students
Instead of asking a room full of adults how to get teens’ attention, Florida KidCare is going straight to the source by asking middle and high school students for their ideas to help promote the program. Florida KidCare is the State of Florida’s health insurance program for children under 19.
The Florida KidCare Act-Out for Health Contest [ActOut4Health.org] launched this weekencourages students across the state to produce a 30-second commercial public service announcement (PSA) or design a billboard advertisement showing how children with health insurance tend to have healthier lifestyles and perform better in school. The entry deadline is Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010.
Act-Out for Health was launched in 2008, after a study by the University of Florida Institute for Child Health Policy revealed the highest percentage of uninsured children in the state are kids between the ages of 12 and 18. The contest provides students and teachers an overview of the Florida KidCare program, as well as lesson plans, creative briefs and an online build-your-own billboard tool to help students create custom ads. The contest continues to grow each year, drawing more than 750 billboard and commercial PSA entries from middle and high school students from across the state.
Contest entries will be judged by a panel of Florida KidCare judges on originality and ability to promote Florida KidCare benefits. The grand prize winning billboard design will be placed in the statewide winner’s hometown or the closest billboard location possible. The grand prize winning commercial will air on television stations and online. Contest winners will be awarded scholarships and their schools will also receive an award.
ACTE OPENS PSA VIDEO CONTEST ON FACEBOOK
PSA will raise awareness about the value of CTE
The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) today launches its annual Video Public Service Announcement (PSA) Contest to promote CTE and publicize CTE Month during February 2011. Students are to submit 29-second video PSAs incorporating the 2011 CTE Month logo. The contest is open to secondary and postsecondary career and technical education (CTE) students in film and video production classes and other CTE courses, and students can enter as individuals or as a group. Deadline to enter is October 27, 2010.
Students will upload videos to ACTE’s Facebook page to enter the PSA contest, in addition to sending broadcast-quality versions to ACTE. Videos will be judged by a panel of marketing and media professionals. First- and second-place winners will be announced during ACTE’s Annual Convention on December 3, 2010, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Winning videos will be publicized on the Internet and may air on television.
The first-place student(s) will receive a $750 prize and the school will receive one complimentary copy of Apple's Final Cut Studio 2, a professional video editing suite, which Apple is donating for the contest. The second-place student(s) will receive $250 and one complimentary copy of Apple's Final Cut Studio 2 for the school.
Copies of the winning PSAs will be sold at ACTE’s Annual Convention and through ACTE’s bookstore. Cost for a DVD is $5 each, and CTE educators can use the DVD to help promote the value of CTE in providing students with the necessary skills to be competitive in today’s economy.
The complete rules and copies of copyright assignment and release forms are available on the PSA Contest Web page. For more information or questions about submissions, please contact onlinemedia@acteonline.org. Learn more about CTE Month and its theme for 2011, “CTE: Learning Today, Earning Tomorrow” at the CTE Month Web page.
2nd Annual Joint CTE “Engaged Development of the Future Economy”
Special Thanks to Keynote Speaker Dr. Erin Baird, Featured Speaker Joseph A Leblanc from NASA and all the presenters. Thank you to the over 120 attendees focusing on improving their professional skills while collaborating with colleagues from around the state. Thank you to the exhibitors for supporting the conference with your attendance and sharing of valuable resources with our educators. This joint collaboration epitomizes the mission of FACTE, which is to facilitate the leadership and partnerships essential for the successful preparation of individuals to participate in a world-class work force.
2nd Annual Joint CTE “Engaged Development of the Future Economy”
Special Thanks to Keynote Speaker Dr. Erin Baird, Featured Speaker Joseph A Leblanc from NASA and all the presenters. Thank you to the over 120 attendees focusing on improving their professional skills while collaborating with colleagues from around the state. Thank you to the exhibitors for supporting the conference with your attendance and sharing of valuable resources with our educators. This joint collaboration epitomizes the mission of FACTE, which is to facilitate the leadership and partnerships essential for the successful preparation of individuals to participate in a world-class work force.
It's here! It's here! It's finally here! The 44th Annual FACTE Conference and Trade Show Registration form is here!
The deadline for early registration has been extended until July 12, 2010! FACTE will not accept any registration forms at the early-bird rate after this date.
Triathlon
Also, please note we are having a triathlon as part of our conference activities this year. More information on this exciting event can be found on the back page of your registration form. The triathlon participation form will be available on the FACTE website after July 6th.
Awards
The deadline for award nominations has passed. The winners will be announced at the Awards Luncheon & Opening Session.
Exhibitors
As of July 1st, all the available exhibitors booths have been reserved. If would still like to share your information with the FACTE membership, you can through FACTE Stuffers. If you are really looking to get your name out there, why not sponsor one of FACTE's social events. More information on these topics can be found in the Exhibitor Contract, or by contacting the FACTE Office. Exhibitor booths are only available on a first-come, first-serve basis, so get your forms in soon!
Agenda
Below if the first draft of the tentative agenda for the 44th Annual FACTE Conference and Trade Show. Please continue checking the FACTE website as the program develops.
We are beginning our new season of online courses supported by a Perkins grant from the Florida Division of Career and Adult Education and delivered by FACTE (Florida Association for Career and Technical Education. Please see below one of the very popular courses we are offering. Registrations are accepted on a first come first serve basis.
Project Based Learning- A "5" Step Process for Integrating Curriculum
Instructor: Paula Fugel, Educational Consulting Services
Phone/FAX: 352-542-1409
Time Frame: January 11th thru February 15th with live sessions on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.
Description: This is a 6 week online training program that will provide participants the knowledge and strategies needed for planning and implementing a "5" step process for integrating curriculum.
How Do I Know What to Teach?
(An online course emphasizing standards-based instruction in Florida Career and Technical secondary courses)
Instructor: Linda Cortelyou
Telephone: (386-717-9082).
Course Dates: January 13 thru February 17, with live session on Thursday at 7:00 p.m.
Course Description: This course is designed to provide participants with the basic knowledge and skills required to effectively use the Career and Technical standards for the state of Florida and a level of comfort designing lesson plans using these standards.
Connected Classrooms (Part I)
Instructors:
Time Frame: This course begins January 17, 2011. The D2L system is available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You may work in the course at any time: day or night, weekday or weekend. The live online sessions will be held on Mondays on Elluminate at 7:00pm (eastern time); these weekly live help sessions will usually last for one hour. The first and last sessions live sessions will last for approximately 2-3 hours.
Description: This course is designed to provide participants with the basic knowledge and skills required to develop and facilitate effective, learner-centered connected classrooms. Course topics include online pedagogy, learning styles, site planning and design, utilization of communication tools, transformation of course content, introduction to multimedia, and online assessment strategies.
February is CTE Month!
How will you celebrate?
Visit the discussion board to share ideas!
CTE Month Celebrations
February 2nd: National Groundhog Shadow Day
February 9th: Promote CTE via Social Networks
Grant Opportunities
Workforce Florida Inc. is interested in increasing the number of communities hosting networks of successful career academies. To further this interest, a Request for Proposal was issued in October and the winning bid was announced in November. The Florida Association for Career and Technical Education (FACTE) was awarded the contract and is partnering with the Henry Ford Learning Institute for implementation. They are tasked with competitively selecting four communities who will each receive up to $200,000 and technical assistance to expand the number and quality of career academies using the Ford Next Generation Learning community model.
The application deadline for those interested is February 8, 2011. Please review the documents below and follow the procedures for application.
The 45th Annual Conference and Trade Show will be held at the beautiful Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort in Clearwater Beach, Florida. We hope all of you will be able to join us at this "can't miss" event. We are now accepting registration forms for the conference. The deadline for early registration is June 24, 2011. For more information, please view the Registration Forms.Registration forms can be submitted to the FACTE office via email, fax, or mail.
If you are interested in being a presenter at the FACTE conference, please email lboyd@facte.org
There will be limited exhibitor space and sponsorship opportunities at this year's conference. These exhibits/sponsorships are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you are interested in participating as an exhibitor/sponsor at the 45th Annual Conference and Trade Show, FACTE recommends that you review and submit the following forms as soon as possible:
Every year FACTE honors distinguished CTE Administrators, Facilitators, and Students in the state of Florida. If you know of someone deserving of this recognition, nominate them for their appropriate FACTE Award as outlined in our Awards packet. The deadline for nominations is June 24, 2011.
Should you have any other questions regard the 45th Annual Conference, please contact the FACTE Office at 850-878-6860.
The 45th Annual Conference and Trade Show will be held at the beautiful Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort in Clearwater Beach, Florida. We hope all of you will be able to join us at this "can't miss" event. We are now accepting registration forms for the conference. The deadline for early registration has passed. We would still like you to submit your Registration forms as soon as possible so we can prepare your conference packets. All late registrations should be sent to lboyd@facte.org
All of our regular exhibitor space has been filled. If you are interested in participating in the FACTE conference as a vendor, we do have other sponsorship opportunities available as listed in our Exhibitor/Sponsorship Contract.
We are pleased to announced that we have completed the 45th FACTE Conference Program. This program is subject to minor changes and we will keep you posted as those develop.
Should you have any other questions regard the 45th Annual Conference, please contact the FACTE Office at 850-878-6860.
Online Classes
All of our online classes are currently in session. Please check back in early February to register for the courses that will be beginning in late February/early March.