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Dear NAPE Members,
The NAPE team and I are gearing up for our National Summit for Educational Equity in less than 2 weeks! We are excited to see many of you at this year's Summit, which will be our 40th Convening. You can see information about the exciting session strands and highlights for the week at www.nsee.info. Our new conference app will be released this week, so attendees will receive information on that soon. Please remember to attend our Annual NAPE Board Meeting on Tuesday, April 30, the first day of the Summit, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. This is the annual meeting of our members and an important activity of which everyone should be a part.
We have had a very exciting month so far, and we are only half ay through! At the beginning of the month we submitted our largest and most comprehensive grant proposal to date, We are STEM & CTE (The Workforce and Education Alliance to Realize Equity in STEM and CTE). This national collective impact proposal was led by our CEO Emerita Mimi Lufkin and our Director of Grants and Development Nok Adesegun, and was made possible by the incredible support of our partners: Co-PIs (Iowa STEM Governor's Advisory Council, Tennessee Board of Regents, Utah STEM Action Center, and West Virginia University; members of our Steering Committee with representatives from more than 20 organizations; and our newly formed Council of (STEM) Alliances. You can see more about the project below and on the updated webpage. We should hear back from NSF this summer.
Last week, we released the materials and website for the new PIPEline to Career Success for Students with Disabilities Project, which includes a new comprehensive literature review and summary chart that parallels our Nontraditional Career Preparation Root Causes & Strategies materials but with a specific focus on evidence- and research-based interventions to increase access and success in STEM and CTE for students with disabilities. We are excited to embark on this project with our partners in Delaware and to share these powerful resources with the field.
Our Perkins V materials continue to be expanded, and next week we will release our new CTE State Profiles, which are an expanded version of our annual resource. This new profile is framed around the Perkins V equity provisions; and provides data to assist with identification of high-skill, high-wage, in-demand industries, and useful state-level data to identify equity gaps based on gender and race and ethnicity. The images of data dashboards at the cluster level are taken directly from our new statewide data dashboards at napequity.org/perkinsv.
Finally, this month is National Volunteer Appreciation Month, and in that spirit I want to publicly acknowledge and thank the incredible team of volunteer leaders who comprise our NAPE Executive Committee and NAPE Education Foundation Board. They have been amazing partners in our work, and I appreciate their dedication to our mission. I look forward to everyone being together for our Summit in just a couple of weeks. I hope to see you there!
Warmest regards,
Ben
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How Schools Are Responding to Migrant Children
Kavitha Cardoza, Education Week
Tens of thousands of child migrants from Central America are in public schools. Many educators are working to support them, but the intensity of their needs can be a strain.
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The Achievement Gap Fails to Close
E.A. Hanushek et al., Education Next
Half century of testing shows persistent divide between haves and have-nots.
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How Aligned Is Career and Technical Education to Local Labor Markets?
C. Sublett and D. Griffith
This report examines whether students in high school CTE programs are more likely to take courses in high-demand and/or high-wage industries, both nationally and locally.
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Why Manufacturing Can't Afford to Be a Man's World
Lisa Caldwell, Forbes
Why, in a sector that is not only flourishing but also facing a potential shortfall of workers, do women remain so vastly underrepresented?
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Women, Automation, and the Future of Work
IWPR
This report presents the first comprehensive gender analysis of the potential impact of technological change on women's and men's employment in the United States.
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Share of Women Working in Construction Trades in 2018 Is the Highest in 20 Years
IWPR
The share of women working in construction trades in 2018 is the highest in twenty years, but women remain strongly underrepresented in the trades: fewer than one in twenty (3.4 percent) of construction trades workers in 2018 were women.
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NCLD partnered with the American Council on Education and the American Association of University Administrators to draft two briefs that inform how university
faculty and
administrators can create environments conducive to self-advocacy skills and self-determination for students with disabilities in higher education.
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Introducing NAPE's "PIPEline to Career Success for Students with Disabilities"
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This new adaptation of NAPE's Program Improvement Process for Equity™, a proven, multi-year professional development and technical assistance program model, brings diverse district-based teams together to research, analyze, and determine participation and performance gap root causes for students with disabilities in career and technical education career pathways. Learn more >>
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NAPE's whereabouts for the next month
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4/18: Chattanooga State Nontraditional Careers (TN)
4/19: Austin High School Micromessaging (TX)
4/23: Macomb ISD Micromessaging (TX)
4/25: Technical College System of Georgia Self Efficacy (GA)
4/25: Advance CTE (MD)
4/26: SMU Paving the Way to Inclusion (TX)
4/27: Fort Worth ISD Micromessaging (TX)
5/1: Dallas ISD STEM Equity Academy (TX)
5/3: Burlington Tech Ctr. Nontraditional Careers (VT)
5/3: E3 Alliance Program Improvement Process for Equity (TX)
5/3: South Coast ESD (OR)
5/4: Austin ISD STEM (TX)
5/7: Dallas ISD STEM (TX)
5/8: Advance CTE (MD)
5/15: LCCR 2019 Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award Dinner (DC) |
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