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Career & Technical Education (CTE) in Oregon is an integral part of workforce development. Specifically, the mission of CTE in Oregon is “to assure excellent and equitable educational opportunities resulting in the development of every Oregonian’s personal potential, knowledge and skills, workforce productivity, and livelong learning.” If you are interested in learning more about professional technical education and key CTE trends in Oregon [Download PDF].

The Mid-Willamette Education Consortium (MWEC) supports outstanding Career & Technical Education programs taught by national award winning instructors. Students from this region have led the nation at FFA and FBLA national competition conferences. High school instructors work hard in collaborative Design Team meetings with Chemeketa Community College faculty and community partners to ensure that rigorous curriculum aligns with college accreditation standards and industry skills certification.

MWEC is charged with managing the Carl Perkins resources and supporting consortium high school professional technical programs through technical assistance and the program approval process.

For more information on the Mid-Willamette Education Consortium and the Executive Council, the policy and advisory board, for the Carl Perkins funds [Click Here].

Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006
In Oregon we use the federal Carl D. Perkins funds to support career and technical programs that are aligned with post secondary and business and industry skill standards. Signed into law on August 12, 2006, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (Perkins IV) sets out a new vision of career and technical education. The central themes of this new vision are:

• Accountability and program improvement
• Seconday-postsecondary connections
• Links to rigorous academics
• Stronger focus on business and industry

More Information:

• The US Department of Education Carl Perkins Information.
  
• Complete Carl D. Perkins Act  of 2006
  

For a brief summary of the purpose of the Carl D. Perkins Act click here.

For a link to the Oregon Department of Education website for the latest facts on Perkins IV

click here.

Click here for a copy of Region 3's 2008-2013 Perkins 5-Year Plan submitted to the Oregon Department of Education.

Listed below are the individual subregional 2008-2013 Perkins 5-Year Plans:

Lincoln County

McMinnville School District

Newberg School District

North Marion County

Oregon School for the Deaf

Polk County

Silver Falls School District

South Marion County

Yamhill Small Schools

Willamette ESD - Lord & Farrell

Carl Perkins Allocations
Specific information on the Region 3 Carl Perkins allocations for 2007-08.
[ Download PDF ]

A State approved CTE program
In order to access Carl Perkins funds, a high school must have a state approved career & technical program. Oregon has defined a state approved program as one that meets the following components.

1. Scores a 4 or higher on the 10 criteria of the Quality Assurance Review, [ Download PDF ]
   
   
2. The high school teacher has a Career &Technical Education Endorsement on their K-12 teaching license, issued by Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.

If you are interested in seeing a list of state approved CTE programs in Oregon
Go to the following link if you are interested in knowing what programs are State approved either at your school, or across the state. Click Here

How to create a new CTE progam
If you are interested in creating a new CTE program you need to answer the following questions:

1. Does your community or labor market research support employment in the skill areas you are considering?
   
2. Does your school have the capacity to offer the appropriate coursework, both in physical space and teacher expertise?
   
3. Are the students interested in learning these skills?

If the answer to the above questions are yes, then Contact MWEC to schedule a meeting with the appropriate teacher(s), administrator and community partners. We will then begin the process of adding a new Career & Technical Education Program through the Quality Assurance Review Process

Below is the link to the Oregon Department of Education web site that identifies all the components of a CTE program http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/results/?id=225

How to become an endorsed CTE instructor
If you are interested in adding a Career & Technical Education endorsement to your teaching license or need to obtain a Career & Technical Education teaching license then you must do the following:

For licensed teachers:

1. Make sure you have the coursework to support two credits worth of coursework in the program area you want the endorsement.
   
   
2. The Oregon Department of Education has created a CTE Teacher Licensure Handbook that provides all the necessary information about becoming an endorsed PTE Instructor. 
   
   Waiver Request for Licensure Requirements.
   
   
3. Contact MWEC to establish an appraisal committee
   

The Annual Program Review is the process we go through annually in the fall that updates the CTE programs by updating course titles & numbers as well as the number of credits it takes to complete the program. The process is on-line and once you make your changes and submit them, MWEC receives an automatic email that flags those programs as being ready for approval.

Here is the process:

1. Log on to the CIPTE web site
2. Enter your log in information: (You may have to contact your district network administrator, Salem Keizer should contact Sharleen Grove)
   
3. Select the Annual program review option
   
4. Under the ‘quick start’ options, select program update
   
5. You should then see your school’s CTE approved programs, and update as necessary
   
6. PLEASE don’t forget to sign the Certificate of Assurances
   and send it to us, NOT Ilene at ODE.
7. Download a copy of the Annual Program Review Manual here.
   

Quality Assurance Process
The Secondary Career & Technical Education Program Quality Assurance (CTEQA) process is intended to help Oregon schools design and develop hig quality, state of the art career & technical education programs. Quality career & technical education provides student with meaningful learning experiences that connect to post high school next steps, and hgelps students achieve the technical, academic and career-related learning standards (CRLS) and skills necessary for their success. Students’ success ins the true measure of program effectiveness and quality. A program quality assurance process provides an external measurement of a program’s quality and effectiveness in meeting the needs of students.

The CTEQA process has three main components:

1. Program criteria [ Download PDF ]
   
2. Program approval and renewal
   
3. Program evaluation
   

A systematic approach to the CTEQA process is needed to ensure that CTE is an integral part of the total education system at your school!

The link below will take you to the Oregon Department of Education web site that provides all the necessary forms and information you will need as you go through this process. Contact mwec@chemeketa.edu if you have any questions with this CTEQA process.

For more Quality Assurance information go to the Oregon Department of Education website