TUESDAY MARCH 16

9 a.m.-7 p.m.

CCCAOE Board Meeting

WEDNESDAY MARCH 17

8:30-11:30

Ideal Regional Model Breakfast Meeting
(CCCAOE Board & Regional Consortia Chairs)

9-11:30

CCCCIO Board Meeting

11:15

Opening Buffet Lunch

12:30-2

Opening General Session

• Welcome: Dr. Don Q. Griffin, Chancellor~City College of San Francisco
• CCCAOE & CCCCIO Awards
• Keynote: Dr. Frances L. White, Superintendent/President~Marin Community College District

2-2:15

Break

2:15-3:30

Breakout #1

• The People Side of Partnership
• Ensuring Agriculture for Tomorrow: What Happens When Water Runs Dry?
• Update on Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative (SB70) Statewide Evaluation
• Recreation, Avocational & Enrichment Courses: Strategies from the Field
• Working with Local Workforce Investment Boards & One-Stops
• Obtaining Funding to Retrain the Unemployed for High-demand Jobs in Allied Health

3:30-3:45

Beverage Break

3:45-5

Breakout #2

• Using Perkins IV – Core Indicators for Program Improvement
• Facilitation:  How To Lead Conversations That Matter
• Pre-requisites: The Next Generation
• Regional Collaborative – Creating the Foundation for Career Pathways that Work
• Best Practices in Grants Management for Administrators
• Engaging High School Students in Career Technical Education Programs through Concurrent Employment

5:15-7

President’s Reception (light hors d’oeuvres/no-host beverages)

THURSDAY MARCH 18

7:30-8:30

Breakfast

8:30-9

General Session

• Keynote: Jonathan Lightman, Executive Director~Faculty Association of the CA Community Colleges

9:15-10
(separate rooms)

CCCAOE Business Meeting
CCCCIO General Meeting

10:15-12 noon
(separate rooms)

CCCAOE Regional Meetings
CCCCIO Regional Meetings

12 noon-1

Lunch

1-2

General Session  

• Keynote: Dr. Don Shalvey, Deputy Director~Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s US Programs Education

2-2:15

Break

2:15-3:30

Breakout #3

• Second Life! What About my First Life: Virtual World Possibilities
• Sibling Rivalry: How to Make a Multi-College District Work
• Career Technical Education & the Academic Senate of the CA Community Colleges
• Facilitative Leadership - Tapping the Power of Participation
• Three Amigos: Exceptional Partnerships in Difficult Contexts
• Creating a Successful Workforce Readiness Learning Lab

3:30-3:45

Beverage Break

3:45-5

Breakout #4

• Faculty Inquiry: An Effective Framework to Improve & Sustain Student Success
• Aligning Curricula & Career Education for Student Success – Cal-PASS ACCESS Initiative
• College of Alameda & the ATLAS Program: Maintaining Effective Community Partnerships
• Hiring Freezes & Internal Re-orgs: Best Practices on How to Assure Instructional Integrity
• Facilitation Tools & Techniques
• Creating Profession Learing Communities: A Model Structure

After 5

An Evening on your own in San Francisco
A free evening to enjoy the sites, sounds and restaurants of San Francisco ~ Chinatown, North Beach, Union Square, Market Street, Ghirardelli Square & Fisherman’s Wharf.

FRIDAY MARCH 19

7:30-8:30

Breakfast

8:30-9

General Session

• Keynote: Dr. Barry Russell, Vice Chancellor~ CA Community College Chancellor’s Office  

9-9:15

Break

9:15-10:30

Breakout #5

• Announcing the CA Community College Curriculum Inventory 
• Building a Bridge for College Readiness: Community College Implementation of the Early Assessment Program
• Speaking Career Technical Education (CTE) – Developing Shared Definitions for CTE-related Terms & Acronyms
• CTE Completers & Leavers: Earnings, Placement in the Field

10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-12 noon

Breakout #6

• Federal Legislation Update & Discussion
• Announcing the CA Community College Curriculum Inventory  (Repeat)
• Building a Bridge for College Readiness: Community College Implementation of the Early Assessment Program (Repeat)
• Strategies for Improving Transfer

12:05-12:30

Closing Session

• Region/Business Wrap-up
• Door prizes

12:30

Conference Ends

12:45-3

CCCAOE/CCCCIO Board Meeting

TUESDAY OCTOBER 27

9 a.m.-7 p.m.

CCCAOE Board Meeting

9

Regional Consortia Chairs Breakfast

10

Exhibits open

11:30

Opening Buffet Lunch

12:45

Opening General Session

• Welcome: Eloy Oakley, President/Superintendent, Long Beach City College
• Keynote: “The Role of Community Colleges on the Road to Recovery”
  Richard C. Trigg, Regional Administrator, Employment & Training Administration (Region 6)

2

Break

2:15

Breakout #1

• How to Form and Effective Advisory Committee
• Career Technical Education for the Industry/Part-time Instructor – Take Two
• Understanding the Green Economy: A Community College Perspective
• New Program Development Made Easy
• Sector Strategies: Creating Partnerships of Community Colleges, WIBs, & Business

3:30

Beverage Break

3:45

Breakout #2

• A True Partnership – Meeting the Challenges of California’s Workforce
• Context Learning for Career Technical Students & the Trades
• CalWomen Tech Project: Recruit & Retain Females into the Technology Classroom
• Bay Area Clean Energy Careers Project – Lessons Learned and Practices Shared
• Health Care Industry & Academic Partnership: Addressing Workforce Needs    

5:15

President’s Reception (light hors d’oeuvres)

7:15

Breakfast

8:15

General Session

• Keynote: “Amor y Cuidado”
  Virginia Hamilton, Executive Director~CA Workforce Association

9

Break

9:15

Breakout #3

• Five College-WIB Partnerships – Budgets & All
• Contextualizing Preparatory English for the CTE Student
• Four-year Transfer in CTE Disciplines: Research Update from the RP Group
• Effective Advisory Committees with an Annual Mega-meeting
• Special Populations: Perkins IV Requirements & Strategies for Effective Service

10:30

Break

10:45

Breakout #4

• Contextualized Basic Skills – A Faculty Primer
• Federal Funding for Support Services: FSET’s Cal Success Program
• Make Green Career Pathways Enticing – Designing with the Corps Model
• CA Corporate College

12 Noon

Buffet Lunch

1:15

General Session (Part 1)

• Keynote: “Swimming in Troubled Waters: How CTE Will Survive the Downturn”
  Jonathan Lightman, Executive Director, Faculty Association of the CA Community Colleges

General Session (Part 2)

• Business Meeting
• CCCAOE – Future Directions

2:30

Beverage Break

2:45

CCCAOE Region Meetings

After 5

An Evening on your own in Long Beach
An free evening to enjoy the sights and sounds and restaurants of Long Beach ~ Ocean Avenue, Pine Street, Shoreline Marina (the Pike) and Shoreline Village.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 30

7:30

Breakfast

8:30

General Session

• Keynote: “Double, Double Toil & Trouble”
  Ron Selge, Dean~CA Community College Chancellor’s Office

9

Break

9:15 and 10:30
(One hour sessions with 15 minute break between.)

Breakout #5 (to be repeated at Breakout #6)

• Tips for Getting Your New Credit Program Approved
• Program Viability through Quality Program Review & Accreditation Processes Including SLOs
• SB70 – State Career Pathways CTE Update

11:40

Closing Session

• Keynote: "Leadership - When and How to Adjust Goals and Redefine Objective"
  Mary M. Niven, Vice President~CA Adventure & Guest Services, Disneyland
• Region/Business Wrap-up
• Door prizes

12:30

Conference Ends

12:45-3:30

CCCAOE Board Meeting

TUESDAY MARCH 10

8 a.m.-5 p.m.

CAREER PATHWAYS LEADERSHIP CERTIFICATION WORKSHOP

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11

• Welcome
• 2008 CCCAOE Awards Presentation
• Keynote – Debra Mills, Vice President-Partnerships, Center for Occupational Research and Development
  Topic: Thriving in Challenging Times: Advancing Economic Development Through Career Pathways

Breakout #1

1. Carl D. Perkins IV (VTEA) Survival Strategies
2. Standards & Expectations: Using Industry Standards for Classroom Management
3. Talent is Not Enough. The Design & Development of a Creative Arts Entrepreneurship Certificate Program
4. Telling the Story
5. Green Collar Jobs: Forecasting Industry Workforce Needs

Breakout #2

1. Statewide Career Pathways (SCP) – Working with Faculty to Facilitate Student Progression
2. CCCAOE Strategic Planning 2.0
3. Green Pathway Partners for Environmental Stewardship – CA Conservation Corps
4. Making the Case for Career Pathways
5. Building Effective Pathways from Middle School to College

THURSDAY MARCH 12

Breakout #3

1. Early College High Schools – Career Pathways to Success
2. Capitalizing on Economic & Workforce Development Faculty
3. Tech Prep Programs – The Model for CTE Pathways
4. Learning the Ropes to Becoming Politically Active
5. Innovation + Collaboration = Student Success

Breakout #4

1. Manufacturing is Fun – Getting Students Interested in Manufacturing Career Pathways
2. Effective Practices on High School to College Pathways
3. Making Connections & Transitions in an Ever-changing Workforce & Economy
4. Emerging Trends in Game Development: Serious Games, Simulations, Casual & Mobile Games & Virtual Worlds CCCAOE Strategic Planning 2.1

General Session

• Recognition of Retirees
• Keynote – Dr. Jack Scott, Chancellor, CA Community Colleges

Breakout #5

1. Linking Afterschool Employment to Career Pathways
2. Closing the Gap between Education & Employment
3. Project Waterworks: Training the Next Generation of Water Professionals
4. Faculty Externships: A Model that “Works”
5. Articulation for the Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Educator

Beverage Break

An Evening on your own in San Francisco

FRIDAY, MARCH 13

General Session

• Special Colleague Recognition
• Keynote – Ron Selge, Dean, CA Community College Chancellor’s Office
  Topic: Sacramento Update: View from the Crow’s Nest

Breakout #6 (to be repeated)

1. Preparing to Implement the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009
2. Latest News on Credit Curriculum Approval & Reporting Processes
3. Perkins IV – The Second Year

Break

Breakout #7 (repeat of Breakout 6 topics)

1. Preparing to Implement the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009
2. Latest News on Credit Curriculum Approval & Reporting Processes
3. Perkins IV – The Second Year

Closing Session

• Business Meeting
• Recognition of outgoing CCCAOE Board Members
• Installation of CCCAOE 2009-10 Board of Directors
• Door Prizes

CCCAOE Executive Board Post-conference & Planning Meeting

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 22

8-11:30

Pre-Conference

Noncredit: Creating Pathways to Credit CTE
 (Be sure to register for this special session; there’s a small added registration fee; see online registration form

• Welcome – Dr. Constance M. Carroll, Chancellor San Diego Community College District
• Keynote – Dr. Francisco Rodriguez, President~Cosumnes River College
  Topic: Completing the Job: Thoughts and Strategies to Strengthen the Pipeline for Non-Traditional Students in CTE

Breakout #1

1. Drafting a Community College Blueprint for Building a Construction Industry Workforce: Construction Industry Workforce Needs - Part 1 (of 4 sessions)

2. Supporting Formerly Incarcerated Students Transitioning into Higher Education
3. The California STEM Equity Pipeline
4. Career Technical Teacher Education for the Industry Expert/Part-time Instructor
5. ICT Pathways: Bay Area Regional Consortium

Breakout #2

1. Drafting a Community College Blueprint for Building a Construction Industry Workforce:
   How Colleges are Responding to the Construction Industries Needs– Part 2 (of 4 sessions)
2. The "Early Childhood Education Lower-Division 8", A Shared Foundation
3. Unlocking the 21st Century Learner
4. So I’m a Dean, Now What?
5. Steps on a Pathway: Building Pathways to Nontraditional, High-wage, High-demand Careers

THURSDAY OCTOBER 23

• Topic: Perkins IV - The Special Populations Perspective
• Speaker – Mimi Lufkin, Chief Executive Officer
  National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Foundation

Breakout #3

1. Drafting a Community College Blueprint for Building a Construction Industry Workforce:
   Meeting the Basic Skills Challenge– Part 3 (of 4 sessions)
2. Job Orientation for Health Students
3. Revisiting Tech Prep Through Programs of Study
4. “Bumpless Transfer” – A Model for High School to Community College Transitions
5. CalWomenTech: How to Recruit & Retain Nontraditional Female Students to Technology

Breakout #4

1. Drafting a Community College Blueprint for Building a Construction Industry Workforce:
   Construction Workforce Brainstorming & Planning – Part 4 (of 4 sessions)
2. The Power of Partnership: Three Keys to Collaboration
3. Climbing the Ladder: Why I Love My Job & How I Got Here
4. Learner Persistence
5. Success at Every Level; The Cal-PASS Initiative

General Session

• Topic: Preparing the 21st Century Workforce
• Speaker: Dr. Dowell Myers, University of Southern California – School of Policy, Planning, and Development

Breakout #5

1. New Funding Source for Employment & Training for Low-income Students
2. A Statewide Energy Education & Technical Training Strategy
3. TBD
4. High School Health Pathways: Linking Science and Health Career Preparation
5. Reach Out and Teach: The Future of Career Technical Education

Beverage Break

An evening on your own to explore San Diego’s sights and sounds of the Gaslamp Quarter, Little Italy, Seaport Village on the bay and more.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

General Session #1

• Topic: School to College Articulation Project: Strengthening the Pipeline and Marketing CTE
• Presenters – Jane Patton, Vice President, Academic Senate of the CA Community Colleges and panel of students

break

General Session #2

• Topic: Birds-eye View from the State Capitol: How CTE Factors into the Political Mix
• Speaker: Jonathan Lightman, Executive Director – Faculty Association for CA Community Colleges

General Session #3

• Topic: How Do WE Construct an Effective CTE Pipeline
• Speakers: Panel

Closing Session

• Business Meeting
• Door Prizes

WEDNESDAY, March 12

NCWE Sponsored Pre-Conference on Policy Development (Be sure to register for this special session; there’s a small added registration fee; more details to be forthcoming!)
SOLD OUT

1. Welcome – Dr. Francisco Rodriguez, President~Cosumnes River College
2. 2008 CCCAOE Awards Presentation
3. Keynote – Dr. Donald F. Averill, Chancellor~San Bernardino Community College District
   Topic: Career Technical Education—A Model for Leadership

THURSDAY, MARCH 13 -

• Keynote – Murray Banks

Topic: PERFORMANCE UNDER PRESSURE: Leading With Passion and Style (If I’d Known It Was Going To Be Like This, I’d Have Taken Better Care Of Myself!)

1. Get the Job You Want
2. Strategies to Promote Self-Leadership in Business/Technical Education
3. The Ins and Outs of AB 2448, Regional Occupational Centers and Programs: Administration
4. Leveraging Resources in Public Safety and Health: Planning for Catastrophic Health Issues (Germs Winning!)
5. Statewide Career Pathways: Creating School to College Articulation: The Latest!

Break

1. Water Agencies Create an Internship Model
2. Succession Planning:  A Partnership to Upgrade Employee Skills
3. Leadership Strategies from the Central California Workforce Collaborative
4. Interview with Confidence!
5. Managing Perkins IV Funds

1:15

• Keynote – Jack Stewart
  Topic: Preparing the 21st Century Workforce

1. Faculty Leaders: Who We Are & How to Work Successfully with Administrators
2. Strategies in Finding the Next "Right" Job
3. Title 5 Changes:  New Rules for Noncredit Education in California Community Colleges
4. Getting It Done Together with 4Energy in San Diego/Imperial Region
5. Good to Great Continuing Education & Workforce Instructors

Evening Event –Rockin’ on the River
Plan to enjoy an early spring evening on the Sacramento River complete with dinner, DJ, and karaokePlan to enjoy an early spring evening in the Old Sacramento area. Details will be forthcoming.

FRIDAY, MARCH 14

• Keynote – Ron Selge, Dean, System Office
  Topic: System Office Update

1. California’s EDGE:  Creating a Workforce Development Policy Agenda
2. Building the Human Services Workforce Pipeline from A.S. to M.S. Degree
3. A Model 2+2+2 Career Path for Manufacturing Engineering Technology
4. The Learning Alliance for Bioscience (LAB) Career Pathway Program - A Model
5. ICT Education in Community Colleges: A Model for Regional Collaboration in Northern California

• Business Meeting
• Recognition of outgoing CCCAOE Board Members
• Installation of CCCAOE 2008-09 Board of Directors
• Door Prizes