Career and Technical Student Organizations Serving Career and Technical Education Students in Ohio 1 Career and Technical Education (CTE) is helping our nation address key challenges such as workforce development, student achievement, economic vitality and global competitiveness. Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs) are key components to strong CTE programs. CTSOs integrate into CTE programs and courses and extend teaching and learning through innovative programs, business and community partnerships and leadership experiences at the school, state and national levels. • CTSOs provide relevant, engaging programs that improve student achievement, reduce dropout rates and help students discover the wide range of career options available. • CTSOs engage the community and local businesses to help students understand global competition and chart effective and efficient pathways through high school and postsecondary education for their personal success. • CTSO programs, such as industry based competitive events and community service, provide students with the opportunity to develop 21st Century Skills focused on creativity, problem solving, teamwork and goal setting. • CTSOs bring relevance to the classroom and prepare students to be college and career ready. The impact that CTSOs make in our state is quite astonishing. We invite you to review this publication to see how Career and Technical Student Organizations are contributing to learning that works in our state. 2 Ohio Fact Sheet CTE STATE OVERVIEW At the secondary level, CTE is delivered largely through comprehensive high schools and CTE centers, which are all part of Career-Technical Planning Districts (CTPDs) that provide for the delivery of career and technical education for Ohio’s secondary and adult students. The CTPDs are comprised of Joint Vocational School Districts (JVSDs) and Comprehensive/ Compact School Districts. JVSDs are groups of predominately smaller school districts that have joined together under a formal agreement to offer CTE programs and meet state and federal requirements. In most cases, the JVSDs offer programs at a central location in a specially designed CTE center, but they may offer satellite programs at member high schools. CTE is also delivered through community schools, which are public nonprofit, nonsectarian schools that operate independently of any school district under contract with an authorized sponsoring entity, and career academies, which are schools- within-a-school that provide integrated career training and academics in the context of smaller learning communities. 120,357SECONDARY 138,964POSTSECONDARY 99% of CTE high school students graduated. 94% CAREER AND TECHNICAL STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS IN OHIO met performance goals for Career and Technical Student Organizations extend Career and Technical Education in Ohio through networks of programs, business and community mathematics skills. partnerships and leadership experiences at the school, state and national levels. Career and Technical Student Organizations provide Ohio students with 95% opportunities to apply academic, technical and employability knowledge and skills for reading/language arts necessary in today’s workforce. skills. CTSOs serve a total of 74,288 Ohio students through DECA, FBLA, FCCLA, FEA, FFA, HOSA, SkillsUSA and TSA. For a report of CTSO participation by each school, please 73% see the section in this document. of CTE postsecondary students met performance goals for technical skills. PERKINS FUNDING Ohio received $42,750,001 for Fiscal Year 2013, the same as in 2012 and $6.4 million less than in 2010. Of funds distributed to local recipients, 79 percent are allocated for secondary programs and 21 percent for postsecondary programs. 3 Learning that works. Nine organizations. development in unique ways. contextualized academic instruction and have Each organization operates independently with the opportunity to work in settings where the One common mission. school-based chapters, state-based associations career skills learned in the classroom can be Career and Technical Student Organizations and national offices creating opportunities and utilized. Participation in a local chapter includes (CTSOs) provide the American education system experiences that a school or even a state could activities designed to expand students’ leadership the tools to educate the student for college and not achieve on their own. abilities, contextualize their academic instruction, careers in ways that are uniquely American. By At the national, state and local levels, CTSOs encourage them to pursue their education and integrating into Career and Technical Education offer diverse programming that is designed equip them with job-related skills in their career programs and courses, CTSOs extend teaching to enhance classroom instruction and four field of interest. Students are also able to develop and learning through networks of programs, common organizational goals: academic and leadership, teamwork, creativity and business and community partnerships and career achievement, leadership development, technical skills. leadership experiences at the school, state and professional development; and community Students participate in local, state, national national levels with different opportunities to service. and international career-based competitions, learn academic, technical and employability skills, At the local level, CTSO chapters operate as aligned with state academic standards, designed which American business and industry say are in-school, co-curricular programs led by CTE to measure their academic understanding and necessary in today’s workforce. teachers as advisers in middle schools, high skills development. schools and postsecondary institutions. Scholarships and awards also encourage Connecting classrooms to The U.S. Congress has specifically authorized students to continue their career-path education a large network. CTSOs in the Perkins Act, and they operate as and assume personal responsibility for their own Each of the nine CTSOs focus on specific national not-for-profit organizations divided into career readiness. career fields and tailors their programing to state associations and local school chapters. By providing students with contextualized the students, teachers and businesses in those Funds from the Perkins Act can be used to support academic instruction and the opportunity to fields. With its singular focus on a specific set local CTSOs. work in settings where the career skills learned in of career areas (Career Clusters), each CTSO the classroom can be utilized, CTSOs effectively develops partnerships with business and industry, Students are the core of facilitate the development of students’ academic, teachers and colleges and at the local, state and each organization. technical and employability skills. national levels that support and enhance student Students participating in CTSOs learn 4 Career and Technical Student Organizations ACADEMIC AND TECHNICAL SKILLS CTSOs apply learning through classroom activities and programs, such as competitive events, that provide unique opportunities to motivate students to demonstrate classroom instruction. CTSOs engage businesses in the education process to identify essential career ready skills. EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS CTSOs create leaders through the development of 21st Century Skills such as creativity, problem solving, teamwork and goal setting. STUDENT, COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS Making an Impact ENGAGEMENT With more than 1.5 million student members combined, CTSOs have a definite CTSOs enhance student engagement by empowering impact on students’ overall college and career readiness: them in classroom, community and career activities. EDUCATION Students who participate According to the National Students who participate ATTAINMENT in CTSOs demonstrate Research Center for Career in school organizations in According to the National higher levels of and Technical Education, 10th grade have higher high Research Center for academic engagement participating in leadership school grade point average Career and Technical and motivation, civic and professional and are more likely to be Education, participating in engagement, career self- development activities in enrolled in college at 21 leadership and professional efficacy and employability a CTSO raises students’ than other students. development activities in skills than other students, educational aspirations. a CTSO raises students’ educational aspirations. and the more students participate in CTSO activities, the better the results. 5 Career and Technical Student Organizations The mission of Business Professionals of DECA prepares emerging leaders and Bringing business and education together America is to contribute to the preparation entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, in a positive working relationship of a world-class workforce through hospitality and management in high schools through innovative leadership and career advancement of leadership, citizenship, and colleges around the globe. development programs. academic and technological skills. <www.deca.org <www.fbla.org <www.bpa.org To promote personal growth and leadership The Future Educators Association (FEA), Making a positive difference in the lives development through Family and Consumer sponsored by PDK International, is a of students by developing their potential Sciences education. Focusing on the student organization that provides students for premier leadership, personal growth multiple roles of family member,