CTE in OSD

  🌟 CTE Weekly Highlights ✨ Looking Back 🧩 Last week included multiple building visits, articulation follow-ups, and discussions about events and advisory updates.  🎓 Dual Credit & Articulation Follow-Up – We continued connecting with colleges on verification forms and expanding Opportunities for our students. 💰 Paula wrapped up several outstanding grant items for End of Year reporting and update on Perkinds indicators, where we were short of the state targets, primarily due to incomplete reporting. 🌱 The CTE office chaperoned a field trip with our ECE Program to the Freedom Farm. 📅 Coming Up This Week 🏗️ Middle-Level Expansion Planning – The team continues working with teachers on 4–8th-grade manufacturing and exploration activities for early CTE exposure. 💬 National Career Cluster Alignment - The CTE office will be partnering with OSPI and other stakeholders to identify how the National Career Cluster adoption will affect Washington state, and...

  🌟 CTE Weekly Highlights ✨ Looking Back 📋 This past week brought continued work on industry credential alignment, including several conversations about course-to-code compliance. Our office also supported program updates related to middle-level expansion and the coordination of outreach activities. A few of you joined regional partners for the Future of Work event—thank you for representing OSD CTE so well! 📅 Coming Up This Week 🔎 Program Compliance & Course Review – As the fall term settles, we’ll continue double-checking course codes and teacher assignments to ensure full compliance in Q. 🚀 CTE Advisory Planning – Preparation begins for upcoming advisory meetings—please make sure you save minutes and attendance logs to your shared folder or send to Chelase to add on your behalf. 💰 Budget Tracking – We’re continuing to monitor year-to-date expenditures to keep programs aligned with the approved plans. 🏫 School Visits – Paula will be out in schools for observation...

  🌟 CTE Weekly Highlights ✨ Looking Back 💬 This past week included several site visits and collaborative meetings across our CTE programs. The team continued Perkins grant work and checked in with our community college partners around Dual Credit and credential reporting. Thank you to everyone who was able to chat and share updates from your classrooms—your work helps us stay connected to what’s happening with students. 📅 Coming Up This Week 🏫 School Visits – Paula will be in buildings throughout the week to support program needs and check in with teachers. 🧾 Perkins and Budgets – We’re finalizing Perkins reporting components and continuing to monitor budget allocations as purchases begin to roll in. 🎓 Dual Credit Articulations – SPSCC and Pierce forms are in motion; teachers involved in new articulations can expect follow-up soon. 🤝 Partnership Conversations – Several career-connected learning partners are scheduling visits—thank you for helping us coordinate those log...

  🌟 CTE Weekly Highlights ✨ Looking Back 💰 Budgets Chelsea has completed the budget transfers and will share the finalized budget amounts, along with reminders of your budget codes. 📅 Coming Up This Week 🧾 Budgets Chelsea will communicate budget amounts and codes. You’ll see your budgets loaded in Q as soon as the Business Office processes last week’s transactions. 🎓 Dual Credit Articulations Chelsea will be reaching out to SPSCC and Pierce Colleges to obtain Teacher Verification forms so we can execute those agreements in the coming weeks. 🧩 TILT Meeting The District Instructional Leadership Team (TILT) will meet this week to continue work on School Improvement Plans and other collaborative planning efforts. 🚀 Future of Work The Thurston Chamber’s Future of Work event showcases the region’s emerging industries and the diverse career opportunities available to our students upon graduation.

  🌟 CTE Weekly Highlights ✨ Looking Back 🔎 Finalize Budgets Budgets were finalized and approved. 📋 DLT Meeting – Tuesday The agenda included leadership work with the Association of Washington School Principals and a discussion about budgets. 🤝 Dual Credit Articulations Paula met with the Workforce Dean at SPSCC to explore additional course articulations that could help high school students earn more Dual Credit. 📅 Coming Up This Week 🔎 Budgets Chelsea will begin entering budget transfers in Qmaltive, with the goal of having everything approved by the Business Office next week. 🤝 Dual Credit Articulations Please sign your Teacher Verification forms and get them to Chelsea this week. For those of you expanding articulations, we’ll circle back on those documents in the coming weeks. 🏖️ CTE Office Coverage Paula will be on vacation through Friday, 10/3, returning Monday, October 6. Chelsea will be available on her normal schedule during this time. ✅ Wishing you...

  🌟 CTE Weekly Highlights ✨ Looking Back 🔎 Qmaltive Data Clean-Up While processing reports, we discovered some system errors that had us reporting incorrect data. All errors have been identified, and Chelsea has communicated with building registrars to ensure corrections are made. 🚀 Budget Prep Our team completed the budget-to-FTE comparison work last week. 💻 E-Commerce Access The Business Office should now have everyone’s e-commerce access set up. If your access isn’t working, please connect with Chelsea so she can check on the status. 🎓 Graduation Pathways Document We finalized the 2025–26 Graduation Pathways document. Counselors will use this tool to help ensure students have access to a wide variety of graduation pathways. If you work in a high school, be prepared—counselors may reach out with questions about Dual Credit and/or Industry Credentials. 📅 Coming Up This Week 🔎 Finalize Budgets We will audit and finalize budgets and begin the journal entries needed to lo...

  🌟 CTE Weekly Highlights ✨ Looking Back : Fourth Day Count:  Last Tuesday marked the first official count of the school year—a key step that sets the stage for budgets. With the transition to Qmaltive, our CTE Office staff completed September reporting manually this time around. It was a busy week behind the scenes, and we truly missed being out in schools with you! 📅 Coming Up This Week 🔎 Qmaltive Data Clean-Up:  While processing reports, we discovered some system errors that had us claiming incorrect data. We’ll be digging in this week to get those issues resolved. 🚀 Budget Prep:  Our team is working hard to finalize and load budgets , with the goal of having everything in place by the end of the first week of October . 💻 E-Commerce Access:  The Business Office is diligently setting up e-commerce permissions . As soon as the system is ready, we’ll notify you and share any instructions they provide. 🎓 Graduation Pathways Document:  We’re also wrappi...