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ODCTE GUIDANCE/CRN DIVISIONS - STAFF FUNCTIONS
 We develop and disseminate relevant products, offer quality inservice training, and provide
technical assistance and leadership for career guidance within the state of Oklahoma.
 


red ball-list indicator Guidance Coordinator - Kelly Arrington, (405) 743-5159 email:karri@okcareertech.org
Basic function is to coordinate career guidance programs in technology centers and to plan and assist staff in implementing statewide career guidance system direction.
 
Contact for information regarding:

  • Guidance state and federal legislation issues
  • Technology center guidance program issues
  • OkACTE Guidance Division
  • Student Services Endorsement
  • Technology center guidance accreditation/evaluation
  • ODCTE Guidance Division Staff
  • Guidance conferences/inservice planning
  • Job Placement

red ball-list indicator  Disabilities Services Specialist     Denise North (405) 743-5138  email:dnort@okcareertech.org
Basic function includes coordinating and providing services that will enhance opportunities for members of special populations to fully participate in career and technicaleducation. 

Contact for information regarding:

  • IEP and transition services related to career and technology education
  • Section 504, ADA, or IDEA issues
  • Strategies for effectively including special populations students in career and technology education
  • OkACTE Special Needs Division
  • Interagency issues for special populations
  • Special needs conference planning
  • Student Services Endorsement
  • All Students Involvement in High Schools That
    Work, Tech Prep, and other educational reform
    initiatives

red ball-list indicator Innovative Services Student Specialists (ISSL)- For local numbers of ISSL contact: Linda Houck - (405) 743-5157
Basic function is to provide technical assistance for school districts and technology centers by providing support in developing, implementing, and sustaining a career development system that emphasizes career awareness, exploration, preparation, and planning.   There are four regional career specialists based throughout Oklahoma.  

Contact for information regarding:

  • Infusion of career awareness, exploration, and preparation concepts into academic curriculum
  • In-service to help support career development components of High Schools That Work, and Tech Prep efforts
  • Career development resources and materials
  • Technical assistance support for implementing career development processes in schools and technology centers

red ball-list indicator Career Information Specialist - Janet Hawkins, (405) 743-5123   email:jhawk@okcareertech.org
Basic functions are to create, develop, promote, and distribute career development products.  These products are designed to focus on the following stages in career development: 
* Career awareness   *Career exploration   *Career preparation. 
Career information products include computer software, curriculum, posters and videos. 

Contact for information regarding:

  • Career Awareness products
    (K-6th grades; e.g., cluster awareness, etc.)
  • Career Exploration products
    (7th-8th. grades; e.g., magazines, videos, etc.)
  • Career Preparation products
    (9th-12+ grades; e.g., Plans of Study)
  • Using career development products for smooth transition
  • Exhibit Booth
  • Vocational Inservice Program (VIP)
  • K-8 ABC's Awards Program
  • Career Activity File

red ball-list indicator Career Resource Network

  Coordinator - Jo Kahn, (405) 743-5404  email:jkahn@okcareertech.org
Basic functions include coordination of the career information delivery system, communication with workforce and economic development efforts in Oklahoma, and coordination and development of electronic career information and guidance products. 

Contact for information regarding:

  • Electronic career guidance products
  • Professional development for the use of electronic career guidance products in the classroom
  • Workforce Investment Act issues
  • Career Services Website
  • WorkKeys

red ball-list indicator Career Systems Implementation Specialist - Natalie Gay, (405) 743-5573  email: ngay@okcareertech.org
Basic function includes managing, providing technical assistance and support, and training for the career information system and providing support for other Career and Academic Connections products and activities.  

Contact for information regarding:

red ball-list indicator Equity/Diversity Specialist - Fern Green Bowling, (405) 743-5596   
        email: fbowl@okcareertech.org
Basic functions are to coordinate equity/diversity and to provide technical assistance and leadership to the areas of equity, nondiscrimination, nontraditional and displaced homemakers, single parents, and single pregnant women and coordination of the GirlTech program

Contact for information regarding:

  • Equity and diversity strategies for student services and career and technology programs
  • Technology center equity/nondiscrimination accreditation/evaluation
  • E-mentoring and mentoring programs
  • Equity state and federal legislative issues
  • Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women
  • Oklahoma Career and Technology Equity Education Council
    (OkCTEEC and ACTE/CTEEC)
  • National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity  
  • Equity/diversity conference planning
  • Rural Enterprise of Oklahoma

red ball-list indicator Technical Support
           Linda Houck, (405) 743-5157 email:lhouc@okcareertech.org
Basic function is to provide technical assistance and support to all ODCTE Guidance, Career Specialists staff. 

Contact for information regarding:

  • Registration/information for conferences and workshops
  • Technology Center personnel information
  • OkACTE Division Information
         Guidance & Special Needs: Linda Houck
        
  • Career Specialists phone numbers and regions
  • Stipends for Summer Conference and other events
  • Standard guidance/career information products
  • Summer conference registration information
 
   
   
     
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