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SUCCESSBOUND 2025
Breakout Sessions will include promising practice share sessions on: Work-Based Learning, Business Advisory Committees, Career Awareness and Exploration Activities, Industry Recognized Credentials and much more!
Date: March 6, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Sinclair College, Conference Center, Building 12
Registration: Please reach out to Pam Hunt: pamela.hunt@sinclair.edu
The Equity for Each grant is now called the E4E grant! The E4E competitive grant assists recipients, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, and the Ohio Department of Higher Education, in identifying and promoting promising practices for continuously improving career-technical education delivery and may support recipients in the ongoing development and alignment of local data collection systems to improve data-driven decision-making and strategic planning. The state of Ohio is committed to improving access, engagement, and outcomes for all career-technical education students with an intentional focus on students included in Perkins V's defined special populations.
The E4E Grant application will be available online March 1. 2025. Applying for the grant will include a document upload in the One Funding Application. A soft launch of the One Funding Application is planned prior to the official launch in June.
The soft launch is intended only for entities that intend on applying for the FY2026 Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant or the E4E Grant. Interested E4E applicants are required to attend one of the One Funding Application Soft Launch and Training sessions. Question about the E4E Grant scan be directed to Christopher.Moscato@education.ohio.gov.
Registration is now open for the Ohio Career-Technical Education in-person New Perkins Administrator's Workshop #3: Building Partnerships for Student Success. This is the third and final workshop in the Ohio Career-Technical Education New Perkins Administrator’s Series.
This event will focus on supporting new Perkins Administrators specific to CTPDs, Ohio Technical Centers, and Community Colleges that receive Perkins funds. Topics will include Regional Systems of Support – State Support Teams, Tech Prep, local CTE Associations, combining Perkins Stakeholder Engagement with Career Field Advisory Committee Meetings, and a panel of experts discussing best practices for work-based learning, internships, and job-shadowing partnerships.
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Location: Conference Center – Walnut Room, 4200 Surface Road, Columbus, Ohio 43228
Time: 9:30am - 3:00pm (lunch on your own)
Notification for secondary FY2024 Local PIPs will be Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Perkins V requires a Local PIP for each of the 9 federal indicators that did not meet 90% of the state-identified levels of performance. Districts will have 30 days to complete 1 survey for each indicator required to have a plan in place for improvement by May 1, 2025.
The new CTE Perkins Federal Indicator Review will be housed in the Data Collection application in MyOhio. This will become available on or before April 1, 2025, and will serve as a dashboard of all federal indicators meeting or not meeting 90% of the state-identified target. Those not meeting the 90% of the state-identified target will be prompted to complete a Local PIP survey for each not met indicator. Webinars will walk participants through this new, easier process for submitting Local PIPs and for viewing all indicator data in one location. The intended audience for these webinars is career-technical planning districts (CTPDs), Ohio Technical Centers (OTCs), and Community Colleges that are responsible for Perkins funding.
These webinars will take place on Teams, Thursday, March 20th and March 27th from 12pm. Each date will present the same webinar. All of those registered will receive an Outlook invitation to both dates. Questions about the webinars can be directed to Deborah.Turner@education.ohio.gov.
$2.1 million in unspent Career-Technical and Adult Education grant (Perkins) funds from fiscal year 2024 will be reallocated in January 2025 in the CCIP to fiscal year 2025. This reallocation will send all districts into a budget revision. Please add a note to the history log in CCIP about how the reallocation will be added into the fiscal year 2025 budget as aligned to the funded strategies in the Perkins One Plan for approval of the revision.
FY25 Perkins Reminders
Public Comment Survey Invitation - Law & Public Safety Standards Revision
The Office of Career-Technical Education at the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce schedules revisions of its Career Field Content Standards on a rotating basis. This year the Law and Public Safety career fields will be revised. As part of the revision process for the Law and Public Safety Career Fields Technical Content Standards, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce Office of Career-Technical Education is seeking stakeholder feedback on the current standards. The Law and Public Safety Career Field Public Comment Survey will be open from March 3 – May 3, 2025. Thank you in advance for your participation on behalf of Ohio’s students!
This review process will ensure that our standards are:
· Clearly written;
· Industry relevant;
· Aligned with what students learn in postsecondary programs; and
· In sync with industry credential requirements.
If you have additional questions or are an Industry Professional or Career Field educator interested in serving on the advisory committees, please contact Frits Rizor at Frits.Rizor@education.ohio.gov.
Business Advisory Council Awardees will be announced soon!
Call for Presentations: 2025 Business Advisory Council Townhall
We are seeking engaging and innovative presentations for the 2025 Business Advisory Council Townhall breakout sessions. If your Council is interested in sharing, please submit a proposal that aligns with the 3 Quality Practices. Your session should highlight how these practices have been implemented within your BAC and include the following:
Proposals should be no longer than one page. Be sure to include clear examples of how these practices have been successfully implemented and how they can contribute to the broader goals of career readiness. Please submit your proposal to BusinessAdvisoryCouncil@education.ohio.gov by April 21, 2025!
Link to register for the July 21, 2025 – 2025 DEW Business Advisory Council Townhall: https://web.ohioacte.org/atlas/events/5563863/details
2025 AI Summit
Sponsored by aiEDU, Innovate Ohio, Ohio Department of Education & Workforce, and Ohio Educational Service Center Association's
We invite educators from across Ohio to convene, be inspired, and share their expertise and ideas around AI literacy and innovation. Join aiEDU & Partners at one of the five AI Summits scheduled across Ohio in April and May. All AI Summits are FREE to Ohio ESC employees, district leaders, building leaders, and K-12 teachers.
Register Here for one of the five AI Summits happening across the state.
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.
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
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.
State of Ohio Tech Prep Regions
The Tech Prep West Regional Center Coordinators and counties of service:
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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
https://www.techprepwestregionohio.org/
