Data Driven Decision Making Workshop

Using the Five Step Program Improvement Process to Increase the Participation and Completion of Students in Nontraditional CTE Programs

Career Technical Education Equity Council Conference
Thursday, September 17, 2009
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Radisson Hotel
10918 East 41st Street
Tulsa, OK

This workshop will take you through a step-by-step approach to selecting the most effective strategy to implement to improve your performance on the Perkins nontraditional core indicator. You will learn to

• conduct a performance gap analysis using your Perkins data and identifying other data sources where data can inform your fact finding
• identify the root causes for low participation and completion rates of students in CTE programs nontraditional for their gender
• select strategies, models and best practices that will increase your schools performance on the Perkins nontraditional indicator

The Five Step Process is a research-based data driven decision making process that can be used in a multitude of educational settings. This training is focused on its use to assist educators increase the participation and completion of women and girls in STEM related career cluster programs of study.

If you have participated in a STEM Equity Pipeline Five Step Program Improvement Process training this will be a great refresher. New resources will be shared and individual technical assistance available.

Conducted by Mimi Lufkin, CEO of the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation and a national expert on the implementation of the Perkins provisions for nontraditional career and technical education.

To register for the CTEEC Conference go to www.cteec.org. Participation in this workshop is available to CTEEC Conference attendees.

For more information contact Joyce Ayers, NAPE Education Foundation – 610.593.8038 or jayers@napequity.org

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