National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity: CEO presentations

Texas Community College Instructional Leadership Conference Dallas, TX	October 5-6, 2009
	Gender Equity in Nontraditional Careers Texas Data Worksheet Root Cause Action Plan Template
2009 CTEEC Conference Tulsa, OK	September 17-18, 2009
	Improving Performance: The Five Step Process Mimi Lufkin, CEO presented an overview and refresher presentation about the Five Step Program Improvement Process.
AGELE Conference: Educational Equity for the 21st Century: Increasing Achievement for ALL Manhattan Beach, CA	August 1-3, 2009
	STEM Equity Pipeline- Data Driven Decision Making This presentation, covering NAPEEF's STEM Equity Pipeline project was presented by Courtney Reed Jenkens and Jeanette Thomas. The items listed below were on the agenda for the presentation: Data analysis of STEM in academics and CTE Overview of the NSF Extension Grant Services funding & STEM Equity Pipeline Project Details of the Five-Step Process Training Iowa's Experience
High Schools That Work Atlanta, GA	July 9, 2009
	Session I Increasing the Diversity of the STEM Pipeline: Strategies for Counselors The gap between boys and girls' performance on standardized assessments in Math and Science are nearly closed. However, girls continue to not translate their academic success into career selection in STEM. This session will focus on the strategies that school counselors can implement to encourage girls to consider high skill, high wage careers in STEM related career fields.
	Session II Increasing the Diversity of the STEM Pipeline: Strategies for Teachers Creating a positive classroom climate and engaging all students in the learning process is the focus of this workshop. As a STEM educator, whether you are math teacher or teaching in a STEM related career and technical education program, such as industrial technology or agriculture, your students develop a sense of their potential for a future career in a STEM field. Learn strategies to help better engage females in STEM that encourages them to seek STEM careers
	Session III Increasing the Diversity of the STEM Pipeline: Strategies for Administrators School leaders play a pivotal role in setting the tone high expectations for all students. This session will focus on tools to assess your schools equity climate and strategies you can use to encourage and support students to choose to break traditional gender stereotypes in STEM.
	Session IV Data Driven Decision Making: Implementing a School Improvement Process for Increasing the STEM Equity Pipeline This session will provide you with an overview of the Five Step Program Improvement Process, the core professional development model of the STEM Equity Pipeline Project. Learn how using data to identify gaps in performance and using research on root causes to identify barriers can lead you to implementing effective strategies that will increase the participation and completion of female students in STEM related career cluster programs of study.

South Carolina Education and Business Summit Greenville, SC	June 22, 2009
	Creating Opportunities for Students in Nontradtional Careers Perkins IV continues to hold local education agencies accountable for increasing the participation and completion of underrepresented gender students in nontradtional career and technical education curricula. This session will focus on providing attendees with resources for identifying the barriers that students face regarding entering and remaining in nontradtional career and technical education programs and on research-based strategies for eliminating these barriers and improving performance on this measure.
2009 NAPE & Women Work! PDI Arlington, VA	March 29, 2009
	The Five Step Program Improvement Process is the central professional development vehicle being used in the STEM Equity Pipeline Project. This pre-conference session will give you an overview of the process and help you understand the steps necessary to select an effective strategy for increasing participation and completion of students in nontraditional career and technical education programs. You will leave this session with training exercises, materials, and a complete set of resources to introduce the process to others.
California Community College Association of Occupational Educators Fall Conference San Diego, CA	October 23, 2008
	Perkins IV: The Special Populations Perspective New provisions found in Perkins IV increases the importance of local education agencies attention to the success of special population students. What do these provisions mean as Perkins IV is implemented? How well have we done nationally and in California with special populations during Perkins III? What new directions are indicated? This session will address these questions and get you thinking!
2008 NAPE/Women Work National Conference	Sunday, April 6, 2008
	Perkins IV Pre-conference session Perkins IV Overview This session for state and local career and technical education administrators and program implementers will focus on state and local strategies for ensuring the success of special populations and improving performance on the nontraditional accountability measure. Participants will explore national trends in state planning, model local application and performance measure negotiation and best practices for state and local implementation
North Carolina Career Tech Prep Conference North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, North Carolina Community Colleges	March 3-4, 2008
	Pathways to Employment for Special Populations This session gave a brief overview of the definition and provisions in Perkins that support programs and services for special population students. A review of the current trends in educational attainment and employment opportunities including wage earnings was reviewed. Best practices in high school to college including tech prep programs for special populations was highlighted.
	The STEM Equity Pipeline The National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation recently received a National Science Foundation Grant to increase the capacity of professional development providers working with STEM Career Cluster teachers to increase the participation of women and girls in these programs. This session highlighted the implementation of this project and informed participants of other STEM initiatives currently underway nationally and in North Carolina.
	Clusters/Pathways - Taking the Mystery Out of Career Clusters This session will provided participants with an overview of the National Career Clusters and Pathways Initiative as a national framework for organizing career and technical education and the careers students are prepared for in these programs. Participants explored the similarities between the 10 North Carolina Career Pathways and the 16 Career Clusters and discussed ways the two can be integrated to meet national accountability requirements and the needs of North Carolina students.
Oklahoma Career Tech Summer Conference Tulsa, Oklahoma	August 3, 2007
	Preparing Students for Workplace Success through Academic Integration, Equity, and Job Placement in Career Clusters Each of our students needs instruction and employability training that is focused on his or her particular career goals. This session provides strategies and resources for aligning student skill preparation and workplace readiness development with the unique needs of each Career Cluster.
	Nontraditional Careers-TANF Professional Development Pursuing a nontraditional career is a sure path to self-sufficiency for women. As a TANF coordinator, how do you provide effective guidance and counseling with your clients to encourage them to explore these options and prepare them for success when they do? This session will focus on this question and provide you with proven resources and strategies that have helped welfare recipients move off of public assistance and on to self-sufficiency.
	Breaking Barriers - Increasing Performance on the Nontraditional Indicator in Perkins IV This session will give you some quick tips on strategies for increasing the participation and completion of underrepresented gender students in nontraditional career and technical education programs. Participants will leave with a toolkit of strategies, resources and technical assistance sources for further exploration.
	Increasing the Diversity of the Future STEM Workforce Project Lead The Way (PLTW) and the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity have partnered with the National Academies of Engineering to increase the participation of girls and minorities in PLTW programs across the county. The Engineering Equity Extension Service initiative, funded by the National Science Foundation, will be reviewed and the resources available to you as a teacher shared. Recruitment strategies, materials, and future professional development opportunities are part of the many valuable resources you will receive. This session will provide some "nuts and bolts" strategies for ensuring a successful STEM effort. Everything from marketing your initiative, to facilitating successful student transitions will be shared.
Tennessee CTE Summer Conference	July 17-18, 2007
	Increasing the Participation and Completion of Students in Nontraditional CTE Programs 1. Agriculture 2. Family and Consumer Science 3. Health Science 4. Trade and Industry