Formerly known as NYS WECA

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Are you an educator dedicated to Career Readiness?

2019 Conference

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Thursday, April 4th

11:00 –12:00    Registration

12:00 - 12:15    Combustion: Conference Kick-Off; WECA President -Mary Pat Grafstein

12:15 - 12:45    “Work-Based Learning on Fire” New innovative ideas to meet the needs of 2030 - Sue Gubing

12:45 -  1:45     Preparing our students for these 2030 changes!  •Tom Friedman's Advice to Millennials                         

6:30 – 6:45        What’s new with Career and Technical Education? Tim Ott, Director CTE TAC

6:45 – 7:15        Jobs in the Real World – How WBL Coordinators can help our students succeed! Maria Frey, ECNY


Friday, April 5th


8:30-9:00            NYSED Updates – Cheryl Winstel

9:15-10:15          Session 1 Choose from one of the four following workshops:

1. How Can Teachers Make Their Students an Asset to Employers?

2. Effectively Using Use LinkedIn for Students and to Build Your WBL Program. Maria Frey

3. Coordinator Chat Time -  Cheryl Winstel,* Associate in Trade and Technical Education at NYSED & Sue Gubing, WBL Certification Instructor – All the questions you ever wanted to ask them!

4. Building an Internet Presence for Work Based Learning Coordinators, Mike Wood, CTE TAC

10:30 – 11:30      Becoming a Better Mentor/Coach to Your Students - Diane Urso, NYS Mentoring Program


 *From Cheryl Winstel's presentation:

At last week’s WECA conference the question was asked about CFM counting as a CTE course for CDOS. The CFM course is able to be counted as a CTE course toward the required 216 hours of CTE coursework and WBL hours for the CDOS Credential/Pathway, 54 of the 216 must be in WBL hours.

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