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CTE-26 Submission Workshop – January 9, 2025
Join the Ohio College Tech Prep Regional Center and the Ohio Department of Workforce, Office of CTE for information on the essential elements necessary to RENEW a CTE-26 application or submit a NEW CTE-26 application for career technical pathways. This hands-on session will allow participants to complete their CTE26 submissions with the aid of the Tech Prep West Regional Center Coordinators and the ODEW. Please bring a laptop, appropriate District and Building IRN information and have the proper OEDS roles for this session.
Time: 9:00a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Where: Miami Valley Career Technical Center Adult Education/Administration Building - Room 406 - 6801 Hoke Road, Englewood, OH 45315
Date: January 9, 20254
Registration: CTE-26 In Person Submission Workshop Registration Link
CTE Power Hour – How does OOD and DD help our students? – February 4, 2025
Join the Ohio College Tech Prep Regional Center in collaboration with the Ohio State Support Team for to get a high level overview of how Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities and the Department of Developmental Disabilities can help our students.
CTE Power Hour meetings are a one-hour virtual discussion on hot topics within Career and Technical Education. The next CTE Power Hour meeting will be held on April 1, 2025.
Date: February 4, 2025
Time: 3:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.
Location: Virtual
Register here: Registration - February 4, 2025
SUCCESSBOUND 2025
Date: March 6, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Sinclair College, Conference Center, Building 12
Registration: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HMD9RD2
Quality Program Review Workshop – Central, Southwest & West Regions – January 22, 2025
The Ohio Department of Education & Workforce, Office of Career-Technical Education, is hosting four Quality Program Review (QPR) technical assistance workshops. These workshops are designed for districts or pathways interested in gaining a deeper understanding of QPR, updates from Perkins V affecting QPR, Work-Based Learning, and how to develop Action Plans. It is recommended that both a teacher and a supervisor or director from the pathway attend together for maximum benefit. The Southwest workshop will be held in collaboration with the West and Central Tech Prep Regions.
Date: January 22, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Miami Valley Career Technical Center Adult Education/Administration Building, Room 406 - 6801 Hoke Road, Englewood, OH 45315
Registration: Southwest Quality Program Review Workshop Registration - January 22nd
Manufacturing Pathways Pilot Program RFP Coming Jan. 6. Sign Up Now.
Through an upcoming Request for Proposals, Battelle Education will select up to 10 Ohio, public schools to develop new innovative delivery models or expand existing successful and innovative Manufacturing pathway or Engineering and Science Technologies pathway programs. These programs are expected to offer students the opportunity to earn the high-quality credits and credentials needed for careers in one of the state’s largest industries.
The grants are designed to elicit locally relevant innovative education, employer, and community partnership responses to the challenges of preparing a diverse advanced manufacturing workforce and removing barriers to participation especially for priority populations (Black, Hispanic, Native American, women, free or reduced-price lunch eligible and/or rural). To support grantees throughout the project, Battelle Education will provide access to technical assistance consultants to strengthen grantees’ capacity and improve their performance. Grantees will be expected to participate in a Community of Practice.
Eligibility: Traditional public school or district, public community school, public STEM school, public joint vocational school district will be eligible to apply.
Estimated funding total: $1,850,000 will be available to fund the pilot schools for 18 months.
Timeline
Contact: Stephanie Johnson at johnsonsa@battelle.org
As part of Ohio’s biennial budget, College Credit Plus Course incentive payments will be issued to school districts offering new qualifying College Credit Plus courses for the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years. Under the program, the Department will distribute incentive payments to participating districts for each qualifying course offered for the first time in the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years. School districts shall use not less than 25% of that amount to make payments to the teachers of the new qualifying courses. The Department will prioritize incentive payments to school districts that offer a limited number of advanced standing courses and school districts with low College Credit Plus participation rates. The payment will be made through an adjustment on the school or district’s state foundation payment. More information is available on the Department’s College Credit Plus webpage.
Questions can be directed to CCP@education.ohio.gov.
Ideastream Public Media’s NewsDepth is a weekly series that breaks down popular news stories into lessons for fourth to sixth grade students. Throughout the series, NewsDepth highlights various careers with Career Callouts. From meteorologist to a NASA Engineer, the student audience chooses which career paths are featured. Educators can share the Career Callouts with students to spark career exploration. Career Callouts were created by the Broadcast Educational Media Commission, the Department, and Ideastream Public Media as a part of the Multimedia Grant project.
Registration for approved construction trades career pathway training is now available on the ACT Ohio website. New statewide training dates and locations will be added to the online registration portal on a rolling basis. Training sessions for counselor groups can be scheduled at a participating JATC Apprenticeship Training Center on request. Contact ACT Ohio Training Director Kitty French at kfrench@actohio.org to schedule a district-wide training session.
January 31 Winter Pretesting Window Closes
April 18 Field Testing Window Closes
May 5 Target for Field Test Finalization
May 30 Post-Testing Window Closes
June 13 Target for end-of-year reports release
WebXam Teacher Review Dates:
January 15 - February 13 - March 14
Pretests will be available in WebXam during the winter pretesting window. Pretests are given before students receive instruction and should only be administered once. The use of pretest scores, when paired with posttest scores during the Teacher Effectiveness window, will generate an additional Teacher Effectiveness score that is mapped to student gain. The window will close January 31, 2025. The WebXam testing window will remain open for all available practice tests, posttests, and field tests. WebXam Calendar
The tests for Agriculture & Environmental Systems are in field testing this year and there will be NO pretesting available in the January pretesting window. Be sure to work with your administrator to set up an extended time frame to administer the longer field tests. All field tests must be completed by April 18, 2025.
Be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Information Technology or Arts & Communication
We will continue item-writing for Information Technology and Arts & Communication in 2025. If you are an instructor for these career fields in any of these courses, we need you to create new items for course tests. If you want to help, be sure to complete our interest form. For more information, check out our item-writing calendar for the dates we will be writing your courses. For more information contact CETE Recruiting.
We are currently recruiting for:
Be sure to sign up today - SMEs are KEY to CETE! Contact CETE Recruiting with questions
Information Technology or Arts & Communication Content Standards Survey
Before writing new test questions, we ask instructors to identify which content standards are the most important for each course. This information determines which content standards to include on the end-of-course tests. If you teach either Information Technology or Arts & Communication courses, please contact Becky Berenbon with your name and preferred email address so you can receive a link to the survey. This is a great way to provide input on test content in conjunction with participating in the item-writing process.
Teacher Review Workshops
WebXam is offering Teacher Review Workshops in the 2025-26 school year on site at CETE and at local districts based on staff availability.
Learn more about Teacher Review Workshops.
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Pam Hunt, Chief Administrator, Sinclair College - pamela.hunt@sinclair.edu
Rosie Matthies, Clark State – matthiesr@clarkstate.edu
Deb Holthaus, Coordinator, Edison State - dholthaus@edisonohio.edu
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