Bridging Success with Enrollment and Retention Strategies: Optimizing post-secondary CTE to meet student and industry needs
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**How can you continue to build your program to appeal to ALL students?**
Over the course of two days, NAPE trainers will guide post-secondary educators in examining their classroom settings and evaluating Perkins V data. The aim is to empower teachers to devise effective strategies fostering positive changes, ultimately influencing enrollment and retention in CTE programs.
Registration Fee includes:
- Sunday, February 11 – Pre-Conference/Mezzanine (2nd Floor) Drury Plaza Hotel (4:00 – 5:00 pm)
- Monday, February 12 – Workshop presented by NAPE (8:30 – 4:30 pm) (lunch provided)
- Tuesday, February 13 – Workshop presented by NAPE (8:30 – 3:30 pm) (lunch provided)
- TWO-NIGHT stay at Drury Plaza Hotel/Wichita, KS (arranged by KCCTE)/Breakfast Buffet at hotel
- Workshop Materials provided by NAPE
Also included:
- March 4, 2024, 3:30 to 4:30 pm Central Time: A one-hour virtual follow up call for technical assistance will be conducted for participants. This is a unique opportunity, after implementing what you’ve learned, to ask questions of the NAPE Instructors and to be responsive to your needs. Information for this virtual call will be emailed directly to participants after the in-person event.
**Check with your schools Perkins Coordinator to utilize Perkins Funds for registration fee and travel.
PRE-CONFERENCE @ Drury Plaza Hotel/Mezzanine (2nd Floor) Sunday, February 11 (4:00 – 5:00 pm)
- Meet with KBOR & KCCTE Representatives and other CTE educators, advisors, and administrators. A short presentation will be made by the KCCTE & KBOR representatives.
- Optional Dinnertime Snacks and Drinks provided by hotel from 5:30 – 7:00 pm.
REGISTRATION @ Drury Plaza Hotel/1st Floor/Bison 1 Monday, February 12 (8:00 – 8:30 am)
WORKSHOP Monday, February 12 (8:30 am – 4:30 pm)/Tuesday, February 13 (8:30 am – 3:30 pm)
- Nontraditional careers are occupations or career fields in which people from one gender comprise less than 25% of the workforce due to cultural stereotypes and norms that have discouraged students from pursuing them. In order for every student to be able to fulfill their potential, we must ensure equal access to and equity in educational options that lead to the entire spectrum of career choices.
- NAPE’s Explore Nontraditional Careers workshop supports educators, advisors, and administrators through a process of examination, reflection, and action to center equity as a means for supporting and encouraging students while also addressing existing barriers to success.
- NAPE’s Equity in Perkins V workshop utilizes the NAPE PIPE™ institutional improvement process as a model to scaffold institutional improvement to address the needs of marginalized student groups and the opportunities available within high-skill, high-wage, and in-demand fields.
- This multi-day program engages educators in the foundational work of building an equity lens and provides guided learning experiences to apply equity principles to local data sets.
- Participants will develop the mindset, knowledge, and skills necessary to address equity gaps in career and technical education programs.
Presenter Details
National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE)
The National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) is a consortium of state and local agencies, corporations, and national organizations committed to the advancement of equity and diversity in classrooms and workplaces.
The NAPE Education Foundation, Inc., established in 2002, expands through funding and resources NAPE’s efforts to provide equity and diversity solutions for educators to help every student fulfill his or her potential through access to the entire career spectrum. NAPE provides its clients with professional development, technical assistance, research, and advocacy on equity and diversity in education and career development.
Dr. Lisa Williams is a national expert on topics of equity and access in public education. She currently serves as the Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Y in Central Maryland. She has served as Chief Equity Officer for the Fairfax County Schools as well as Executive Director for Equity and Cultural Proficiency in the Baltimore County Schools.
Dr. Williams has served as a Subject Matter Expert with the United States Department of Education Department of Career, Technical, and Adult Education division related to equitable access in STEM/CTE. She is co-author of two books, When Treating all the Kids the Same is the Real Problem: Educational Leadership and the 21st Century Dilemma of Difference and Humanity Over Comfort: How You Confront Systemic Racism Head On both published by Corwin Press.
She is presently collaborating with teacher leaders in Cologne, Germany to publish an article on Social Justice in Education (2022). Dr. Williams is the proud mom of a son, Andrew, who is the daily inspiration for her work for all children.Her lived experience and scholarship on issues of equity and access shapes her lens
Dr. Ricardo Romanillos is passionate about building structures and pathways that empower underserved communities. He has 19 years of experience in public education, including work as a Curriculum Director and teacher, as the Senior Director of Programs with NAPE, and presently serves as Chief Diversity Officer with SkillsUSA.
Dr. Romanillos brings many lenses and identities to his work, including husband, surviving father of a medically dependent child, second-generation Latino, and scholar. He earned his Doctorate in Education from Johns Hopkins University, focusing on improving teachers’ sense of self-efficacy to engage students who are a minority in the sciences. Outside of education, Ricardo and his wife are building a ranching operation in North Texas where they are applying current trends in regenerative agriculture. They do this in honor of their son, Rafael Romanillos who passed away in 2019.
CO-HOSTED BY
KANSAS BOARD OF REGENTS AND KANSAS CENTER FOR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION