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Kelly Arrington's Monthly E-Mailing

December 2008 

Retirement from ODCTE:

We will say "best wishes" to Jorja Jacobs, Innovation Support Service Liaison (former career specialist), Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, who is retiring from her career in education after 37 years of service - 17 of them at ODCTE.   Jorja is well known in the state, especially the northeast part of the state, for her efforts in career development.  Her last day will be January 9, 2009.  Thank you, Jorja for your years of service!
   Ability to Benefit Testing - WorkKeys We heard that there was a change in the tests that ACT provides for Ability to Benefit (ATB) testing.  We received confirmation from Caully Kline at ACT that as of Sept. 1, 2008,  because of internal reasons, ACT removed the WorkKeys tests from the approved list of tests for ATB.   ACT will continue to provide COMPASS and CPAt for ATB testing.  [To our knowledge, WorkKeys has not been removed from the federal list, but ACT will not continue to score these. Therefore, using this assessment for ATB purposes is not feasible.]   

Career and Academic Connections web focus

Check out http://okcareertech.org/cac/Pages/guidance/guidance.htm#examples

You will see samples and examples of career guidance materials from technology centers.  There are several plans of study examples as well as other cluster resources.

WEOKIE Foundation Scholarship

Applicants write an essay and must be a graduating senior from an accredited high school or home school program in the following counties in Oklahoma; Canadian, Cleveland, Logan, Pottawatomie and Oklahoma. Applicants must be enrolled or planning to enroll in an accredited college or career-tech school upon high school graduation. Applicants are not required to be a WEOKIE Credit Union member.
Again, this scholarship is limited to students that attend school in the following counties in Oklahoma: Canadian, Cleveland, Logan, Pottawatomie and Oklahoma.  Deadline is Feb. 28, 2009.   Click here for document with all the details.

Oklahoma Crystal Darkness Documentary 

The Oklahoma Crystal Darkness Documentary will be shown Tuesday, January 13, 2009 from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. on most state television stations. It will air on Spanish language stations Telemundo at 6:00 p.m., and Univision at 5:00 p.m. the same evening. You can visit www.crystaldarknessoklahoma.org http://www.crystaldarknessoklahoma.org  for more information and to schedule a watch party.  Click here for more information/details.

OKCIS Plans of Study and Career Clusters Your students can now choose from the traditional subjects such as Math, Social Studies, and English and then put in specific course titles or they can choose from Career Clusters and then enter specific course titles.  The course titles are where they can list recommended course sequences for Career Majors.  The students will also be able to choose other subjects such as Internships and Work-site learning.  

You can upload the courses for your school as well.  If you want more information on how to do this, there is an excellent training video here.  For more information contact Natalie Gay, 405.743.5573 or Jo Kahn, 405.743.5404

Crisis Response Plan Resources:

The following brief resources can be shared with school staff for a quick check and to stimulate discussion related to the school's response plan -

School Helping Students Deal with Loss -- http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/loss.pdf 

School Responses to Natural Disasters -- http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/practicenotes/naturaldisasters.pdf    

Kelly Arrington
Guidance Coordinator
Oklahoma Department of CareerTech
1500 West 7th Avenue
Stillwater, OK  74074-4364
405.743.5159
karri@okcareertech.org

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