Summer Academy

May News for EFE Directors

CTE Graduate Profile Book Challenge Winners

Over 80 new Graduate Profiles have been added during the past few weeks during the Friendly Challenge

Winning school was WILCO Career Center featuring the following top high schools:

Plainfield South High School

Lockport High School

Bolingbrook High School

Plainfield North High School

In addition, congratulations to:

Grayslake North High School

ILCTE Innovative Curriculum Resources Project would like to celebrate successful high school Career & Technical Education programs throughout Illinois by highlighting careers of CTE graduates. Over 200 graduates are now featured in the CTE Graduate Profile Book . Graduates are asked to answer a few questions about their career path, skills learned and are given the opportunity to give CTE students advice. Interested? Please email April Suter at acsuter@ilstu.edu for more information. Click here for link to submission form.

Save the Date Day 2 of Summer Academy with Family and Consumer Sciences

When: June 16, 2021 Where: ISU-Turner Hall/Ewing Manor Culture Center

Contact Amy Ponce at: ajponce@ilstu.edu , she will contact you as soon as registration is open.

Limited space available

ILCTE Presents:

Summer Academy

Recruiting, Retaining CTE Students & Relaxation

When June 15, 2021

Where

Holiday Inn Bloomington-Normal 8 Traders Circle Normal, IL 61761

Just off of I-74 & I-55 Interstates *virtual option available

Registration Cost : $25

Click here to register.

*All IDPH guidelines followed.

Agenda & additional information on next page.

Dr. Art McCoy is a trailblazer who has led over 20,000 staff, over 1 million students across the US, and supported 2 million students worldwide within three decades. As a Johns Hopkins University Certified Contact Tracer, Dr. McCoy has the first to reopen schools for in person learning in St. Louis, Missouri. He has led over 1200 schools to reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic from 800 leaders in the United Arab Emirates to hundreds of school leaders across America. He served on over 30 boards including to gubernatorial, university, non-profit and for-profit publicly traded boards. Dr. McCoy and raised over $20 million for innovative programs in STEAM, workforce development, diversity-inclusion- equity, and mental health/wellness wrap-around services. Under his leadership, Jennings had multiple years of 100% graduation, college, and career placement. This is Missouri’s only 90-90-90+ district with over 90% minorities and impoverished and over 90% accreditation achievement and the only district to produce 2 school-based health clinics, 2 homeless shelters, 2 grocery store food hubs, a Healing Engagement with Parent- Child Interaction Therapy. Dr. Art McCoy Dr. Michael Cermak Michael Cermak, PhD is in his 29th year in the education profession. He started his career teaching graphic arts at Macomb High School. He has held dean posts at two Illinois Community Colleges and currently teaches graphic design at Guilford High School in Rockford, IL. Over the years, Dr. Cermak has planned and implemented new community college technical degrees, partnered with Woodward to make a specialized education and work program, developed and led ACE High School in Rockford, IL and administered state-wide professional development to CTE administrators, teachers and school counselors. For his dissertation, he analyzed CTE enrollment patterns in Illinois Public High Schools from a critical viewpoint to consider how enrollments of students of color differ from their white peers. As a father of three, he has been known to use dad humor from time to time.