Tech Prep News

OSU Institute of Technology-Okmulgee
There is a new name for the Okmulgee campus of Oklahoma State University. The school will now be known as Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology-Okmulgee. http://osu.okstate.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=838&Itemid=90

Governors Council
On Friday, December 7, the Governors Council on Workforce and Economic Development met. Among the speakers present, the Council heard from Donna Elmore, Associate Vice President of Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College in South Carolina. Donna spoke about the state’s Personal Pathways System. One of the websites presented was www.palmettopathways.org. The system was developed as a result of the South Carolina’s Education and Economic Development Act and mandates that by 2010 all South Carolina schools be organized by the High Schools That Work (or comparable) model. Some of the key requirements of the act include connecting student education to careers, articulation agreements for K-16 and increasing the number of guidance staff. Resources related to the EEDA can be found at www.teachscpathways.org or www.scpathways.org/news.html.

GrowOklahoma.com
The OK Department of Commerce is releasing its newest website, www.growoklahoma.com (aka www.mycareerplan.com). At the Grow Oklahoma website you will find resources for exploring careers, planning your education, finding a job, starting a business and much more. The website will be integrated with OKCIS and a username to either website will work with the other.

New center trains educational eye on an electronic world
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--digitaleducation1206dec06,0,5828276.story
The Brand Gap
An interesting slide show about what a brand is and isn’t. http://www.slideshare.net/coolstuff/the-brand-gap

Adult Education Bringing Hope to Young Dropouts
An article from South Carolina: http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/dec/10/adult_education_bringing_hope_young_drop24563/

Why AP and IB Scholars Soar
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/21/AR2007052100975.html?hpid=sec-education
The Preuss School
Map of Top 100 Schools (2 in OK)

Ashland University Virtual Christmas Card
Need another excuse to email your students using the PLAN data? View this Christmas card from Ashland University. Ashland is a mid-sized regional teaching university, historically related to the Brethren Church. You can use this concept for Holiday cards, birthdays, the first day of finals or the first day of school. The possibilities are endless.
http://ecard.ashland.edu/index.php
http://ecard.ashland.edu/index.php?ecardYear=2006adm
http://ecard.ashland.edu/index.php?ecardYear=2004adm
http://ecard.ashland.edu/index.php?ecardYear=2003adm

PS-Their President even has a Blog!!

Jobs With a Future
A map indicating Chances for Success from EdWeek

US News Top 100 High Schools


Word of Mouth Marketing
An interesting article on word of mouth marketing including estimates of cost at $3.7 billion dollars by 2010.