The National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical
Education Consortium, the Association for Career and Technical
Education, the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity and the
National Women’s Law Center are proud sponsors of the Programs &
Practices That Work: Preparing Students for Nontraditional Careers
Award.
The winner for the 2009 award is “GirlTech” at Francis Tuttle Career Technology Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. GirlTech encourages female high school students to enter science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers. The program will be recognized during a briefing for the U.S. Congress and media on Capitol Hill this summer. It will also be featured in a report that will highlight effective programs and practices for gender equity within career and technical education. The report will serve as a resource for local and state educational agencies wishing to employ similar strategies to successfully prepare students for nontraditional, economically self-sufficient careers.
For more information on the GirlTech program, please read the press release or contact Sabrina Kidwai.
July 2009 Project Report
Building New Possibilities: Promising Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Students in Career and Technical Education Programs That Are Non-traditional for Their Gender
2010 Project Information & Background
2010 Award Application
Deadline: Coming soon!
Purpose
The purpose of this project is to identify local or state educational agencies across the country that have implemented effective programs and practices for improving access and success of students pursuing careers nontraditional for their gender. The project will solicit input from the career and technical education community to identify programs and practices that meet the selection criteria below. Information on these effective programs and practices will be shared with the field through a variety of media in an attempt to provide states and local education agencies with ideas for development of their own programs and practices to successfully prepare students for nontraditional careers.
Process
The application due date will be announced in the near future. Applications will be evaluated by a team of reviewers representing the four organizations sponsoring the program. The winners will be announced in a press release that will be distributed in February 2010. The winners will be recognized at the ACTE National Policy Seminar, March 8-10, 2010 and also recognized at the NASDCTEc Spring Conference and the NAPE Professional Development Institute. The winners will be asked to participate in a congressional briefing at the Capitol on a date to be determined in Spring 2010.
Eligibility
To be eligible, the local or state educational agency submitting the program or practice must show:
- increased enrollment of students of the underrepresented gender in nontraditional CTE programs and/or
- increased completion of students of the underrepresented gender in nontraditional CTE programs
The improvement must be substantiated with appropriate accountability data (i.e. local data if a local program, statewide data if a statewide program).
Required Materials
The following materials must be submitted:
- completed application
- local Perkins Accountability Data Report/State Consolidated Annual Report or other local or state accountability report specific to program/practice
- program or practice brochures, flyers, newsletters, photos and other marketing materials
Previous Winners
Sponsoring Organizations
Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE)
www.acteonline.org
703-683-3111
Contact: Sabrina Kidwai
National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE)
www.napequity.org
610-345-9246
Contact: Mimi Lufkin
National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium (NASDCTEc)
www.careertech.org
301-588-9630
Contact: David A. Buonora
National Women's Law Center (NWLC)
www.nwlc.org
202-588-5180
Contact: Fatima Graves