Creating Your Own Brand

Given the change in industry from 20th century "Company Man" to "Brand You" (from "The Brand You 50" by Tom Peters) there's a huge need to teach students about PoWeR Skills to navigate a complex career world: collaborating, building relationships, and creating your own brand to sell yourself will be essential. Knowing how to 'perform' and how to constantly sell your work will be essential skills for our students. This website is pretty rad: http://www.tompeters.com/

Peters gives tons of tips that could be croswalked with language arts especially. It has a lot of personal marketing strategies that could easily be utilized as common core language arts activities. Stuff like, create an ad for yourself, for example. check it out.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/chris_anderson_how_web_video_powers_global_innovation.html
This is awesome and I think speaks to some of the new ways in which we are creating our future workforce. I'm showing it to kids tomorrow as part of some career guidance lessons. But, it speaks to huge gains in education through internet video, beyond MIT's open courseware: affecting every industry.

Quick Facts of Women in the Labor Force

Though the data is from 2010....Fascinating to see the trends, the reality, the battle....
Please use as a teaching tool for your young women students.
http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/Qf-laborforce-10.htm

CCDA Spring Training - you can show up Tomorrow!

Colorado Career Development Association (CCDA) 
Spring Training 2012

DATE:        Friday, April 6^th, 2012

TIME:        8:30-9:00 a.m. - Breakfast & Check-In

                 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. - CCDA All Day Training

                 *CEU's Available*

LOCATION:  CENTURYLINK CONFERENCE CENTER

                     3898 South Teller Street

                     Lakewood, CO 80235

Liz Lierman

BIOGRAPHY: Liz Lierman is an Associate Director for the Office of Career Services at Oberlin College, where she provides career counseling, pre-law advising, and frequently presents on career development topics. Liz holds a BA in Psychology from Williams College, master's degrees in Social Administration and Nonprofit Organizations from Case Western Reserve University, and is a Licensed Social Worker.

 

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION - Motivational Interviewing

• An overview of Motivational Interviewing, where MI fits within a counseling process, and the core assumptions of a practitioner using MI.
• The four principles that guide MI practice, and examples of how to use the principles with clients.
• Exercises to allow participants to begin using MI principles and strategies.
• An overview of integrating MI into career counseling, types of clients for whom it may be most helpful, and the timing of MI within a career counseling process.
• Examples of ways MI can be incorporated into career counseling, and varied according to the client's presenting concerns.
• Exercises to allow participants to practice using MI principles in ways that are relevant to their work settings and client populations.

Dr. John Littrell

BIOGRAPHY: Dr. John Littrell served as a faculty member in Counseling and Career Development at Colorado State University. His specialty is the topic of brief counseling. John is the author of Brief Counseling in Action (1998); co-author with Jean Peterson of Portrait and Model of a School Counselor (2005); and co-author with Luigi Gerardi of Counseling in Companies: Great Gains with People Using Small Steps (2010). He has 33 refereed articles in major counseling journals, 15 book chapters, and 5 brief counseling videotapes/DVDs. John has served on the editorial boards of Professional School Counseling andCounselor Education and Supervision. In retirement, John is writing short story murder mysteries that feature famous counselors/therapists who solved murders in their practice using their own theoretical frameworks.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION - Solution-Focused Tools That Make a Difference

This workshop offers four powerful solution-focused tools to speed up the process of change. Demonstrated will be: (1) discovering changes that have already occurred, (2) interrupting with respect and finesse, (3) asking miracle questions and scaling questions, and (4) employing the Session Rating Scale and the Outcome Rating Scale.

Registration Information
	CCDA Members	Non-Members	Student Members*
Early Bird Rate  (Must register before March 15th)	$85	$100	$55
Regular Registration Rate (March 15th-April 5th)	$95	$110	$65
Day of Conference (Friday, April 6th)	$105	$120	$75

*To be eligible for the Student Member registration rate you have to become a CCDA Student Member first!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our CCDA Training
Registration Chair at Jessie.Czerwonka@ucdenver.edu 

Learning Syles....Controversy? or Fact?

Great presentation on neuroscience and learning. Here are the ppt slides used: http://www.caroltomlinson.com/Presentations/2012ASCD_LearningStyleControversy.pdf

College, Career & Citizen

Great recent issue of Education Leadership magazine put out by ASCD. You won't be able to read the whole thing unless you are a member but the snippets are worth it!
http://www.educationalleadership-digital.com/educationalleadership/201204#pg1

Teaching People

Check out th One Person/Multiple Careers: The Book by Marci Alboher

http://heymarci.com/

We learn so many transferable skills in CTE. We can make those skills evident as transferable with this awesomeness: http://www.coloradostateplan.com/content_standards.htm

http://www.coloradostateplan.com/standards/Arts_STEMandIT_StandardsAndAlignments.pdf

Do it! use it! love it!