Program Improvement Process for Equity Training

Program Improvement Process for Equity Training

Date:  Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 8:30am to Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 1:30am

Event Location:  DMACC Ankeny Campus

FFA Enrichment Center
1055 SW Prairie Trail Parkway
Ankeny, IA 50023

This email is being transmitted on behalf of Pradeep Kotamraju, Chief, Bureau of Career and
Technical Education.

The Department of Education Bureau of Career and Technical Education, is again offering

training through our partnership with the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) for

Perkins nontraditional data indicators – 6s1, 6s2, 5p1, 5p2.  In our efforts to increase the

participation and completion rates of underrepresented gender students in nontraditional CTE

programs, NAPE will utilize its Program Improvement Process for Equity (PIPE), an institutional

change model, to provide technical assistance and professional development to secondary and

postsecondary educators to  improve their performance on the accountability measures

defined in the Perkins Act.  This is a follow-up training to the Data Dashboard professional

development that was offered in Fall  2015.  Participants are not required to have

participated in this earlier training.

The Program Improvement Process for Equity  (PIPE) is a research-based,

effective professional development program designed for school teams to identify and

implement evidence-based strategies to increase the participation and success of female

students—particularly girls and women of color— and other under-represented students in

science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and other career and technical

education nontraditional career preparation programs. Site teams are most effective if they

include all stakeholders necessary to implement the Program Improvement Process for Equity.

Suggested team members of the implementation team should include:

 administrators

 institutional researchers

 coordinators

 counselors

 faculty of nontraditional career and technical education programs

The goal of this training is to build stakeholder buy-in for the process and for team members to

assume responsibility for gathering information for the Program Improvement Process for

Equity, assisting the Team in drawing conclusions about strengths and weaknesses of the site,

setting goals, selecting and enacting activities, measuring outcomes and providing feedback to

the ongoing planning process. Trainees should be available to participate in the orientation

webinar, the two training sessions, monthly technical assistance online meetings and a

proposed Showcase of projects during the Iowa ACTE annual conference in September.

Each participating site will also need to designate a site lead.

A PIPE Orientation Webinar will be conducted for Regional CTE/Perkins Coordinators and

identified teams from each of the sites intending to participate in the PIPE training. This

webinar will be conducted online from 3:30-4:30 pm CST on Thursday, February

18th  from 3:30-4:30pm CST.  The PIPE orientation will be recorded and made available to all

participants.  On the day of the webinar, participants should sign in under the name as a “guest”.  They can either use the audio on their

computers or call in by dialing (712) 775-7031, Code 285-787-405.

 For questions or additional

information regarding the training, please contact Jeanette Thomas, Education Consultant,

jeanette.thomas@iowa.gov, 515-281-3636.