Iowa ACTE Best Practices Conference 2021

The Waterloo Career Center has implemented work-based learning (WBL) (incorporating academic knowledge, technical skills, and professional skills) to enhance the real-life work experience for our students. Our WBL program partners with our business partners to satisfy the industry requirement for skilled and talented professionals while also meeting the needs of the students with the desire to work within a field of interest. Our WBL programs are targeted to bridge the gap between the learning and the doing.1) What Work Based Learning is
2) What Work Based Learning framework like at the Waterloo Career Center
3) What the process of identifying students for WBL looks like
4) Struggles & Successes of WBL at the WCC

The National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education program has grant funding opportunities available to support technical program development, professional development, career pathways, curriculum development, outreach activities and more in support of technician education.  The current NSF-ATE solicitation and some helpful resources will be reviewed.Participants will learn about how NSF-ATE grant funding opportunities can help them with their technician programs.
Participants will learn what activities qualify for NSF-ATE grants.
Participants will learn multiple categories of NSF-ATE grant funding.
Participants will learn about several NSF-ATE resources available to them.

The Iowa Clearinghouse for Work-based Learning expands access to high-quality, real-world work-based learning, partnering Iowa's students with businesses.  
The session will introduce the tool, highlight successes, offer entry points and share resources and PD opportunities to support authentic learning in the classroom.

Learn how Transeo Jobs helps districts develop and scale work-based learning (WBL) programs through a customizable solution to ensure student success and state compliance, including the new Perkins V requirements.With a major shift in the American Education Policy, there's a need to restructure the ways in which we develop and scale work-based learning. While educators redefine readiness, it's crucial to track both CTE concentrators and state compliancy while putting student success at the forefront. Transeo's Job platform streamlines this process with sophisticated reporting to meet Perkins V requirements.