Tech Prep National Recognition

Tom Weichel, tech prep coordinator at Caddo Kiowa Technology Center, has been named Region IV Outstanding Career and Technical Educator

Sally Arrington and the Law, Public Safety, Security and Corrections Cluster Team from Great Plains Technology Center have received the National Tech Prep Network's Exemplary Worksite Learning Award for 2005!

This is a national award, given to three consortia who exhibit meaningful worksite opportunities into their cluster's curricula. They will be recognized at the 2005 National Tech Prep Conference in Orlando, Florida in late September.

CTEEC Holds National Conference

The Career and Technical Education Equity Council (CTEEC) held their national conference Sept. 14-16, in Tulsa OK. The conference brought together representatives from community colleges, technology centers, tribal nations, and partnering agencies.

CTEEC promotes communication and linkages between career and technical education and leaders of business and industry that will enhance the success of displaced homemakers, single parents, single pregnant women, nontraditional students, at-risk females, pregnant teens and teen parents. CTEEC is an affilate of the administration division of the Association of Career and Technical Education (ACTE). The current president is Dr. Lou Ann Hargrave.

Cherokee Nation Color Guard opened the CTEEC Conference.

Outreach Program at Emerson Alternative School Highlighted

The September issue of the monthly magazine, "Historic Living," features an outreach program at Emerson Alternative Education Center in Oklahoma City. The article, “Local Teens Join Fight Against Breast Cancer,” highlights one of the activities from Sandi Bennett and Gene Williams’ science class that integrates health science concepts.

Emerson is one of the oldest schools in the country devoted to teenaged parents. The two teachers came up with the idea to help their students take on the worthy cause of combating breast cancer. In the process, they discovered the power that can come from believing in a child and the ability to be a positive agent of change for young people deemed hopeless by many others.