Simulated Workplace: Changing CTE in West Virginia
Channel: AppalachiaRCC
Date: 26/06/2015

This June 25, 2015 webinar co-facilitated by the Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center (ARCC) and the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium explores how West Virginia's Simulated Workplace is reinventing Career Technical Education (CTE) by bringing the workplace inside the four walls of a CTE classroom for a student-centered simulated experience.  Launched in 2013 as a pilot, the Simulated Workplace is poised for statewide implementation in the 2016-17 school year. Presenters discuss the road to implementation--from concept to pilot to state enactment--as well as the results and lessons learned along the way. Presenters include Kathy D'Antoni, West Virginia Associate Superintendent, Career and Technical Education; Doug Sands, Machine Tool Technology Instructor; Jan Hanlon, Secondary Education Director, Logan County Schools, West Virginia; Austin Coffey, Student, Industrial Equipment Maintenance Career-Technical Program; and Gary Clay, Business Leader, West Virginia Manufacturing Association.