Summer Academy 2021

Summer Academy 2021 Recruiting, Retaining CTE Students & Relaxation June 15, 2021

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.

For those attending in-person:

Doors will open at 8:30 am for sign-in.

Breakfast items will be available upon arrival.

For those attending virtually:

You should have received a box sent to you before the conference. Please have that box ready to open and enjoy the same materials as those attending in person. To fully interact in Summer Academy 2021, please turn your cameras on. Thank you! Please log on at 8:45 to enjoy the introductions and to meet all attendees. During the lunch break, we would like to invite our virtual attendees to continue their on-line presence and be placed in a breakout room to enjoy conversation with one of our in-person dining tables. Be sure to follow the conversations in the chat box to interact with the entire Summer Academy attendees.

Zoom link for Summer Academy 2021:

Topic: Summer Academy 2021 June 15

Time: Jun 15, 2021 08:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/98337357546

Meeting ID: 983 3735 7546

If you are having any problems attending virtually, and cannot contact us through the Chat, please feel free to email Betsy Westergreen at: eaweste1@ilstu.edu

Primary Project Personnel:

• Project Director, Mr. Rod McQuality ( rdmcqua@ilstu.edu ) • Health Sciences Technology Leader, Mrs. Nance Budde RN ( nlbudde@ilstu.edu ) • Technology and Engineering Education Leader, Mr. Gary Cotie ( grcotie@ilstu.edu ) • Business, Marketing and Computer Education, Mrs. Betsy Westergreen (eaweste1@ilstu.edu) • Project Principal Investigator, Dr. Chris Merrill ( cpmerri@ilstu.edu ) • ILCTE.org Website Design and Development, Mr. Chris Garner ( christopher.garner@mcusd709.org ) • Curriculum Leader, Dr. Brad Christensen (bachris@ilstu.edu) • Human and Public Services Leader, Mrs. Amy Ponce, (ajponce@ilstu.edu) • Career Development Leader, Mrs. April Suter, ( acsuter@ilstu.edu )

Conference Notes

Conference Notes