MAVEA Initiatives

The Center for Career Development has partnered with the Maine Association of Vocational Education Administrators (MAVEA) and the Maine Department of Education on a number of projects, including statewide standards, School-based Learning Teams, Curriculum Integration/Maine Learning Results, and staff development.

What's New:

• National Organization Overviews: Program Accreditation & Technical Skills Certification
  The Center is providing support services for the Industry-Related Skills Standards Discussion Project - a combined effort of the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) and the Maine Association of Vocational Education Administrators (MAVEA). Secondary career and technical program instructors will participate in a series of Skills Standards Discussion Sessions as a part of the multi-year continuum that MDOE and MAVEA have undertaken to research, identify, evaluate, and implement industry recognized skills standards in the Technical Centers and Regions. The Center has developed overviews of national and Maine statewide organizations that provide program accreditation, technical skills certification, skill standards, student assessment, or related curricula materials for secondary technical education programs. More info.

What's Happened:

• Conference agenda (PDF file) from the 2005 Professional Development Conference
  
  
• Agenda and resources from the 2004 Professional Development Conference
  
  
  • Conference agenda
  • CTE Strategic Plan - Handout from Patrick Phillips' keynote presentation
  • Practical Strategies for Implementing Reading Literacy - Handout from Dr. Candice Bray's breakout session presentation

• Information from 2004 MAVEA Directors' Summer Institute
  
  
  • View Summer Institute agenda.
  • Bill Daggett, President of the International Center for Leadership in Education, shares his perspective on some important issues related to education in a series of White Papers.
  • Daggett's International Center for Leadership in Education
  • The Lexile Framework for Reading is a scientific approach to reading measurement that matches readers to text. The Lexile Framework measures both reader ability and text difficulty on the same scale, called the Lexile scale. This approach allows educators to manage reading comprehension and encourage reader progress using Lexile measures and a broad range of Lexile products, tools and services.
  • Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) is a commercial product for assessing student reading levels and monitor reading progress.
  
  
• Related and Useful Sites

School Review

The Center for Career development has facilitated Comprehensive School Review Pilots at three secondary technical schools during the 2003-04 and 2004-05 school years.

Links

• Maine Department of Education Career and Technical Education Homepage
  
  
• U.S. Department of Education Career and Technical Education Homepage
  
  
• Perkins Vocational and Technology Education (State Grants and Tech-Prep Indicators) - 2004 - Goals and indicators to "increase access to and improve educational programs that strengthen education achievement, workforce preparation, and lifelong learning."
  
  
• Maine Education Data Management System (MEDMS) - MEDMS is designed to "communicate with local school administration districts, manage their data for state and federal regulatory and assessment compliance, while managing the department's internal database and information flow."
  
  
• Agenda from MAVEA Professional Development Conference held Oct. 10, 2003.
  
  
• Agenda from the MAVEA Directors' Summer Institute, held August 5-6, 2003.
  
  

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