and Indiana ACTE present
The Conexus Indiana ACTE Conference
September 25, 26 & 27, 2008

IN-ACTE State Conference Program At A Glance
updated 9-5-08

Thursday, September 25

9:00

Conference Registration

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Agriculture New Teachers' Workshop, Day One (6 PGPs)

Friday, September 26

8:30 am - 3:30 pm Agriculture New Teachers' Workshop, Day Two (6 PGPs)

9:00

Conference Registration
9:30 am - 3:00 pm Career Counseling Updates, Matt Fleck and amanda Snoberger, Indiana DOE
Marketing CTE and Enrollment Procedures
Creating School Partnerships and Creating Websites
Youth Organizations and Virtual Career Centers

10:00 am - 3:00 pm

DOE Teacher Workshops (4 PDUs & PGPs)

Business and Marketing

What's New in BMIT, Barb Beadle, Indiana DOE
Summer Internship at the Children's Museum, Dena Irwin
Building Internships and Coop - New Internship and Coop Manuals
Engineering and Technology
IMSTEA Super Mileage Challenge
Threading Together Models of Curriculum Integration
Integrating core academic subjects into architectural drafting and high school CTE

Family and Consumer Sciences

10:00 Foods for Healthy Living and Healing (joint session with INAFCS)
Chefs Michael and Brigitta McGreal present their inspirational 2-hour workshop directed towards food for life and eating to promote health and recovery. See preparation techniqes demonstrated and taste foods prepared in health-promoting ways.

1:00-3:00 FACS Teacher Workshops-Choose One
A Healthy Relationships - Curriculum and training provided by Dibble Institute
B Financial Education - Curriculum and training provided by National Endowment for Financial Education
C Culinary Arts Network Meeting - Workshop for culinary instructors presented by Chefs Michael and Brigitta McGreal. These post-secondary and secondary culinary arts, mathematics and foodservice instructors present new teaching resources as well as their non traditional approach to teaching and learning math.  Many schools struggle with meeting AYP in mathematical competencies.  Join this interactive and energetic approach to learning math through culinary arts principles and applications; a true recipe for success!

Health Science

Anatomy in Clay Workshop Join Starla Ewan, award winning Health Science teacher, for this interactive workshop.  Participants will build clay models.  Each person experiences this unique hands-on method of learning and 'seeing' the relationships of different anatomy components.  "The mind does not forget what the hands have learned."

Trade and Industry

10:00  High School Implementation Strategies
Kathy Clayton, Director of the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council will be the presenter.  Several Career and Technical Programs will be able to   use this certification to meet the requirements for the new Technical Honors Diploma.
11:00  Online Learning CNC Training
Dave Dahline, Regional Manager of  Amatrol will present information about this new Program.         
1:00   Panel Discussion on Implementation Strategies
Area Career Center Directors using the Manufacturing Skills Standards will discuss how they are implemented. 
2:00   SkillsUSA                 
Meet with State Advisors and students to learn about SkillsUSA. 

12:00 Noon

Networking Luncheon for All Indiana ACTE Registered Participants

1:00 - 5:00 IACTED Committee Meetings (1:00-2:00 and 4:00-6:00) and Board Meeting (2:00-3:30)
1:00 - 3:34 INAFCS Tour to the Indiana Repertory Theater - registration form at www.inafcs.org

3:30 - 6:00     

Affiliate meetings, dinner on your own

6:00

OPENING SESSION/ Keynote Speaker (1 PDU & PGP)

7:00 - 9:00

Vender/Networking Session(2 PDUs & PGPs)

  • ACT, Inc.
  • American Technical Publishers
  • Bridges Transitions
  • Cengage Learning
  • Century Business Products
  • Conexus Indiana
  • Depco/LLC
  • Eli Lilly and Company
  • EMC Publishing
  • ETA International
  • Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher
  • Indiana Youth Institute
  • Indianapolis Presentation Solutions, Inc
  • JBH Technologies, Inc.
  • Realityworks, Inc.
  • US Army Recruiting Battalion
  • Walden University

8:00 -10:00

Casino Night

Saturday, September 27

7:30

Conference Registration

8:00

Session I (1 PDU & PGP)

9:00

Session II (1 PDU & PGP)

10:00

Session III (1 PDU & PGP)

11:00

Session IV (1 PDU & PGP)

12:00

Session V (1 PDU & PGP)

1:00

Awards Luncheon
2:30 Delegate Assembly

American Talent – the Next Generation
Key Note Speaker:  Hans Meeder, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education

Hans K. Meeder is President of the Meeder Consulting Group, LLC, a firm offering assistance in education and workforce policy analysis.  Meeder has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education in the U.S. Department of Education Office of Vocational and Adult Education, policy and outreach director for the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, senior vice president for workforce and postsecondary education at the National Alliance of Business, and Executive Director of the 21st Century Workforce Commission.  His areas of expertise include high school reform, career technical education and community colleges. Meeder earned his B.A. from the University of Maryland College Park and holds an MBA from the University of Maryland University College.

As America is grappling with the impact of globalization and escalating workforce demands, we are in the midst of multiple discussions about "high school redesign" and tightening linkages into and through postsecondary education.  In this context, planning should center first and foremost on the skills, knowledge and attributes that young people and adult workers need to be successful in the modern workplace.  To engineer our education and training systems around the talent that is needed for successful workplace and economic competition, what the U.S. needs is nothing less than a new breed of education that carefully integrates rigorous academics with interest-based, career-oriented content and offers seamless pathways between secondary and postsecondary education. 

In this keynote presentation, Hans Meeder, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education and a nationally-recognized expert on career and technical education and workforce development, will share information on workforce trends, international competition for talent, implementation of the Perkins Act of 2006, and promising practices that speak powerfully to these issues.  This session will equip participants to be effective advocates and leaders in making education redesign happen at the national, state and local levels.

7:00- 9:00           Vender/Networking Session (Exhibitors Registered)
8:00-10:00         Casino Night

 Following the Opening Session will be a Vendor Fair and Networking session.  This is your opportunity to learn about all the new products and available technologies.  It will also give you time to meet old friends and make new ones. Hors d’oeuvre and cocktails will be served.  Following this session will be a Casino Night with door prizes.

Vender Demonstrations

“Bridges: Improve student achievement in your school”  Bridges’ education and career planning and test prep products help students reach their full potential and achieve in the transition to education and work.

“RealityWorks: Getting to know Baby”  You think you know the infant simulator and why it is used=prepare to be surprised.  Participants interact with RealCareÒ  Baby and get demonstrations of the flexible programming and reporting software that makes a breeze out of the newest Baby program available.