Career Academies on the Hill

Tentative Agenda

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Time	Event
12:00pm - 7:00pm	Check-In/Conference Registration - 2nd Floor Meeting Rooms
12:00pm - 2:00pm	Legislative aides Lunch and Learn workshop - Leon Room
2:00pm - 4:30pm	FPSCC Regional Meeting - Adams Park Room
12:00pm - 5:00pm	District Planning - Salons A & B This room is available if teams from district want to meet and plan prior to conference
5:00pm - 7:00pm	Florida Room Networking/Meet & Greet Your Legislators event for: Conference participants Legislators and aides Business partners
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Time	Event
7:00am - 8:00am	Check-in/Conference Registration - Ballroom
7:30am - 8:00pm	Continental Breakfast - Ballroom
8:00am - 9:15am	Ballroom Opening Session Panel Perspectives on Career Academies from the Conference Partners: ACTE - Alisha Hyslop FACTE - Marsan Carr FPSCC - Connie Scotchel-Gross NCAC - Susan Katzman SCESC - Sharon Tritschler Moderator: Kathy Israelson, President, FPSCC
9:30am - 10:45am	Ballroom Meet the Practitioners and Supporters (Opportunity for 5 different 15 minute table chats – 12 tables from which to choose) 10 minute table chats – 10 tables from which to choose) Jody Gleason Executive Director Palm Beach County Education CommissionSalon A and B QE3 Collaborating for Quality Education and Economic Development, Vern A. Pickup-Crawford, President and Consultant Schoolhouse Consulting Group, Inc., and Jody Gleason, Executive Director, Palm Beach County Education Commission
11:00am - 12:15pm	Session 1 - Florida Room - Workforce Banner Centers Session 2 - Salons A & B - Programs of Study for Career Academies, Gayle Manley, Senior Educational Program Director, Workforce Education, FDOE and Connie Scotchel-Gross, Manager CTE, Palm Beach County Session 3 - Leon - Career Academy National Standards of Practice, Susan Katzman, NCAC President, Angie Grasberger, NCAC Board Member Session 4 - Adams Park - NCAC’s Florida Academies addressing the National Standards of Practice (Hillsborough County’s Culinary Academy, Manatee County’s Business Academy, Palm Beach County’s Finance Academy)
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Ballroom – Supporting & Expanding Florida’s Career Academies Lunch w/Panel Presentation: Connie Scotchel-Gross, Facilitator Senator Don Gaetz (Invited) Tom Besaw – CTE Coordinator, Volusia Co Lucy Hadi – Workforce Development Doug Wagner – Director Adult, Career and Technical Education- Manatee Co Connie Scotchel-Gross –Manager Career Education, Palm Beach Co. Dr. Gail McKinzie, Superintendent of Schools, Polk Co Pamela Campbell-Peralta, Director CTE, Hillsborough County School District Tom Shiner, Director of Special Projects, Workforce FL, Inc
2:00pm - 4:30pm	Student visits with legislators (please make appointment ahead of time)
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Student/Teacher/Administator debriefing by District
5:30pm - 7:00pm	Ballroom Networking/Meet & Greet Your Legislators event for: Conference participants Legislators and aides Business partners
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Time	Event
7:30am - 8:00am	Florida Room Continental breakfast for all participants
8:00am - 9:15am	Session 5 – Florida Room - Increasing Student Achievement with Career Academies, Carla Sparks District Resource Teacher for Career Pathways, Hillsborough County School District Session 6 – Salon A and B - Influencing Legislation, Vern A. Pickup-Crawford Session 7 – Leon - SCESC’s Florida Academies Addressing the National Standards of Practice (Braden River HS, Manatee County, Palm Beach County’s Criminal Justice Academy, Hillsborough County’s Environmental Science Academy)
8:00am - 10:45am (double session)	Session 8 – Adam’s Park - Meet the Business Partners (multiple models of successful partnerships) (Programs for Miami-Dade, Hillsborough, St Johns and Duval Counties)
9:30am - 10:45am	Session 9 – Florida Room - Northeast Regional Career Academy Consortium, Paul Parker, Paula Chaon, Garland Web, Brent Lamond, Chris Force Session 10 – Salon A - Designing Career Academies in Smaller High Schools, Tonya Whitehurst, Putnam County schools Session 11 – Salon B - Career Exploration and Career Academy Selection through Freshman Academies, Sue Roshon, Assistant Director, Technical and Career Education, Lee County Session 12 – Leon - Perkins Guidelines and Career Academies, Kathleen Taylor, Senior Education Program Director, Perkins IV Planning and Implementation, Workforce Education, FDOE
11:00am - 12:00pm	Closing Session - Florida Room Connie Scotchel-Gross: Recognition of Contributions and Services to Career Academies

Updated: 4/7/08