Business/Industry Certification

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Business/Industry Certification
Alabama Career/Technical Education
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Awesome Responsibility
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Business and industry professionals and
postsecondary institutions are depending on us to
serve as the launch for Alabamas students future
employment and educational opportunities.
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Awesome Responsibility
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Students and parents are depending on us to
prepare Alabamas students with broad skill sets
in the career area of their choice.
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Awesome Responsibility
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Federal and state government require that we
ensure that career and technical programs are
academically rigorous and up-to-date with the
needs of business and industry.
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Business/Industry Certification
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A certification process that establishes and
maintains a quality accountability system for the
improvement and enhancement of Career/Technical
Education
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Business/Industry Certification
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• 1997 BIC Feasibility Task Force
• Researched certification processes
• Developed ten standards and quality factors

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• 1998 BIC Implementation Task Force
• Defined the process and required documentation
• SDE State Board approved BIC Process
  Implementation began a 5-year cycle
• (All C/T programs were reviewed once during the
  five year cycle.)

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Business/Industry Certification
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• 2003 Second 5-Year Cycle Began
• State Superintendent approved continuous
  improvement
• Quality factors and process redefined by
  Business/Industry Revision Team (Checklist
  added, paperwork reduced, continuous compliance
  implemented, and Adm. Section added)
• ISO Review/ Unconditional Certification

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ISO specifies requirements for a quality
management system for any organization that needs
to demonstrate its ability to consistently
provide a product that meets customer and
applicable regulatory requirements and aims to
enhance customer satisfaction.
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Business/Industry Certification
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• 2004 Continued Improvement
• Quality factors and process redefined by
  Business/Industry Revision Team (Teacher
  section further reduced
• ISO Review/Unconditional Certification

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Business/Industry Certification
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• Continued Improvement
• Field input analyzed
• ISO Review/Unconditional Certification

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Business/Industry Certification
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• Put in data from surveys

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Business/Industry Involvement

• Business/Industry Persons
• representing each C/T cluster with the
  development of the original standards that
  are still in use.
• serving on Business/Industry Certification
  Revision Task Force
• serving as curriculum developer on all courses
  of study
• serving as equipment list developer and/or
  validated the list
• serving as team members that verify 81 of the
• BIC checklist items. (Team educator
  verifies 12.
• SDE facilitator verifies 7.)

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BIC Provides Opportunities for . . .
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• Program Improvement
• Partnership Development
• Professional Development
• Technical Assistance
• Image Improvement

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Annually
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All C/TE programs in each local education agency
(those programs supported through federal funds)
will meet BIC standards as determined and
approved by the Department.
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Business/Industry Certification
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• All C/TE programs are reviewed annually
• On-site review by outside team lead by SDE
  facilitator-approximately 20
• Local review lead by C/T Administrator-approxim
  ately 80

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Career/Technical Program
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• FYI
• A blended program of academic, occupational, and
  life skills leading to further education and/or
  employment.
• Occupational-Secondary programs leading to
  success in specific career pathways.
• Non-Occupational-Middle level programs to
  include Agriscience Business/Marketing, Career
  Technologies, and Family and Consumer Sciences
  Family Life. High School programs to include
  Family and Consumer Sciences Family Life and
  Career Technologies.

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Course Components
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• Personnel
• Students
• Curriculum
• Facilities
• Equipment

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Career/Technical Program

• Partnerships
• Business/Industry
• Community
• Counselors
• Academics
• Parents
• Student Organizations
• Elective/Recruitment/Retention
• Advisory Council
• Quality Accountability System (BIC)

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Business/Industry Certification
Prior to the Start of School
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• Read/Read/Read/Read/Read/Read
• Standards/Quality Factors/Checklist
• Definitions
• Procedures
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Make Notes/Ask Questions/Ask for Help

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www.alsde.edu, click on Sections, click on
Career/Technical Education, scroll to
Business/Industry Certification,download documents
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Standards/Quality Factors Checklist
Standard 1-Purpose The program has clearly stated
goals related to the needs of the students and
employers.
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Business/Industry Certification

• Prior to the Start of School

• Prepare Syllabus for each course (Include
  BIC checklist items)
• Prepare Lesson Plans for each course
  (Include BIC checklist items)
• Prepare Safety Test/Safety Signs/Safety Zones
  (if applicable) for each course (Include BIC
  checklist items)
• Begin work with Advisory Council
• Perform inventories/determine functionality
• Equipment/Textbooks/Publications

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• Prepare Syllabus for each course
• Instructional philosophy
• Program name
• Program goals
• Course name
• Prerequisite or indicate that no prerequisite
• is required
• Course goals
• Course description
• Course outline
• Assessment procedures

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• Individual lesson plan must contain the
  following
• Course title
• Overview
• Embedded/substitute credit documentation, if
• applicable
• Materials/equipment/technology resources
• Procedures/activities/learning experiences
• Varied assessment strategies
• Provisions for individual differences
• Estimated duration in minutes or hours and
• fractions thereof for the lesson

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• The following areas must be addressed as part
  of the course instruction and identified
  throughout lesson plans
• Safety instruction as an integral part of the
• program
• Teamwork activities
• Learning and/or project-based activities
• Integrated academics
• Employability skills
• Problem-solving skills

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• Management skills
• Higher-order reasoning
• Work ethic
• Integrated CTSO experiences
• If live work is utilized, evidence is included of
  
• how live work supplements instruction of
  
• content standards
• Career/Technical Education Curriculum Core
• content standards
• All content standards for the course
• Lesson evaluation toward improved teaching

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• Prepare Safety Test
• Procedures checklist/rubric/written test, etc.
• Address unique needs of specific course
• Include specific safety assessment for each
• major piece of equipment utilized in the
• course
• Prepare Safety Signs
• Post in highly visible locations
• Prepare Safety Zones, if applicable

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• Recruit Advisory Committee Members
• Five members (See Section 2/A
• for membership criteria)
• Check website for Advisory Committee handbook

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• Perform inventories/determine functionality
  Equipment/Tools/Textbooks/Publications
• Compare equipment inventory list to BIC
  Equipment/tool list-notify C/T Administrator if
  all equipment is not available
• Check functionality of all equipment/tools- Faci
  litate needed repairs
• Update multimedia materials to meet program
  content

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• Prior to the Start of School
• Prepare BIC management system
• Ensure that adequate space is available, clean,
  and orderly
• Obtain First Aid Kit
• Ensure that equipment/tools are properly stored
  and operating procedures are posted, when
  applicable
• Post preventive maintenance signs

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• Prepare BIC management system
• Each teacher provides lesson plans for each
  course listed on his/her Daily Schedule for the
  full instructional year unless this is a new
  course or new teacher
• New course offerings require lesson plans to
  current date plus an additional two weeks
• Notebook/box (folders)/binder/electronic files
  with identifying tabs must align to BIC
  Standards/Quality Factors Checklist documents

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• Ensure that adequate space is available for
  number of students enrolled in the program and
  that the space is clean, and orderly
• Evacuation procedures must be posted in highly
  visible location
• Chemicals must be stored and disposed of in
  accordance with local, state, and federal safety
  and environmental regulations, as applicable

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• Obtain First Aid Kit
• Verify with school administration acceptable
  contents
• Place in a highly visible location

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• Ensure that equipment/tools are properly stored
  and operating procedures are posted, when
  applicable
• Tools must be stored systematically and well
  maintained
• Equipment and tools must have approved safety
  devices in place, if applicable

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• Post preventive maintenance signs
• Procedures that are to be performed to
  minimize downtime
• When procedures will be performed
• Who will perform the procedures

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• First Month of School
• Begin Student Organization Recruitment
• Assist Student Organization Members with
• Program of Work Development
• Prepare Program Budget
• Prepare Student Records

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• Student Organization
• Recruit membership
• Request copy of membership check for
  national/state dues
• Assist students with Program of Work
  development using CTSOs goals and
  priorities and include timelines
• Plan for making the CTSO activities an
  integral part of the instruction
  program-co- curricular activities

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• Prepare Program Budget (Include BIC criteria)
• State teacher allocation
• Local maintenance funds
• Additional revenue (donations, grants, program
  fees, live work, etc.
• Student organization revenue (dues, fund
  raising, etc.)
• Classroom expenses
• Student organization expenses (national and
  state dues, fund raising expense, field trips,
  etc.)

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• Prepare Student Records
• Records must be secure and confidential
• Each student must show how they will complete
  his/her secondary path in career/technical
  education
• Each student must have achieved 100
  proficiency on a safety assessment that
  addresses the unique needs of the program,
  including specific safety assessment for each
  major piece of equipment utilized in the
  program.

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Business/Industry Certification

• June of the current year- until- the date of the
  On-Site or Compliance Review
• Business Industry Awareness Hours
• 9 month contract 8 hours
• 9 month plus 16 hours
• Identify on the document the new program
  content knowledge that will be taught to
  students.
• Authorized signature

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• During 12 Months Prior to On-Site or Compliance
  Review
• Advisory Committee- At least two meetings per 12
  month period
• Develop/review/revise written guidelines
• Meeting attendance fifty-one percent present
  for each meeting (minimum)
• Develop/obtain approval/implement Program of
  Work (Include BIC components)

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Business/Industry Certification Pre-On-Site
Review

• Organize and verify documentation
• Documentation is limited to that required on the
  Standards/Quality Factors Checklist
• Verify that each checklist item on the
  Standards/Quality Factors Checklist can be
  marked yes

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Business/Industry Certification Pre-On-Site
Review

• Determine who will obtain team members
• Check criteria on page 1 of Section 2/A and
  page 1 of Section 3 Standards/Quality Factors
  Checklist
• BIC Team consist of two- business/industry
  persons with experience directly related to the
  CTE program being reviewed
• BIC team consist of one or more teachers
  familiar with the CTE program being reviewed
• Teams should be prepared to stay all day

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Business/Industry Certification On-Site Review

• Business/Industry Persons
• Does not represent a vendor that could benefit
  financially through participation in this
  process
• Is not a current employee of the system being
  reviewed and has not worked for the system in
  the past five years
• Is not related to any of the persons
  (administrator, counselor, teacher, etc.)
  involved with the program being reviewed
• Has been employed in business/industry within
  the past five years and has five or more years
  of experience directly related to the program
  being reviewed

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Business/Industry Certification On-Site Review

• Business/Industry Team Educator
• Is not related to any of the persons
  (administrator, counselor, teacher, etc.)
  involved with the program being reviewed
• Has knowledge of the Alabama Career/Technical
  Education Courses of Study related to the
  program being reviewed
• Has a minimum of three years teaching
  experience within the past six years
• Is not performing a reciprocal review
• Is not a current employee of the system being
  reviewed and has not worked for the system in
  the past five years

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Business/Industry Certification On-Site Review

• All team members for the scheduled review day
  must meet at the same location in the same room.
• All notebooks and/or folders must be in that
  room.
• Counselor and teacher must be available for
  their interview
• Sit-down breakfast (if provided) must be
  completed prior to the scheduled review time

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Business/Industry Certification On-Site Review

• To Avoid On-Site Review Cancellation Ensure
  that
• All team members meet the criteria
• Team members are no more than 30 minutes late
• Team members understand they must stay for the
  complete review
• Cancelled reviews cause the program to be
  deficient for all checklist items until the
  review can be rescheduled

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Business/Industry Certification On-Site Review

• SDE Facilitator meets with On-Site Review
  Team and provides instructions for the review
• Business/Industry persons review BIC
  notebook/folder, interview teacher(s), and
  counselors, conduct on-site observation of the
  facilities, equipment, and supplemental
  materials
• Educator(s) review lesson plan notebooks and
  may assist in on-site observation
• SDE facilitator verifies student records,
  business awareness hours, and teacher
  certification

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Business/Industry Certification Post-On-Site
Review
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• SDE Facilitator, Business/Industry Certification
  team meets with school administrators
  (principal, career/technical administrator and/or
  superintendent) to share On-Site Review findings

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Business/Industry Certification Post-On-Site
Review
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• Superintendent receives written report for
  all programs reviewed. C/TE Administrator
  receives a copy of the report
• Superintendent receives decals and
  certificates for each teacher to post for
  certified programs
• Programs with deficiencies have until Sept.
  15 of the current school year to clear
  deficiencies without the systems report card
  being affected

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Business/Industry Certification
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