Strategies and Tools to Use in Your Work-Based Learning or Flexible Pathways Program LIVE WEBINAR

Strategies and Tools to Use in Your Work-Based Learning or Flexible Pathways Program LIVE WEBINAR

PD: Gen Ed | This program is completed

- Online, VT - United States

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2.0 Professional Learning Hours

10/26/2020 (one day)

3:30 PM-5:30 PM EDT on Mon

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Target Audience: Work-based learning coordinators, flexible pathway coordinators, co-op coordinators, career counselors, or anyone involved with placing students in internships, job shadows and community placements.



In this 2 hour interactive webinar, three instructors in the VT-HEC Work-Based Learning (WBL) Program will each facilitate a mini-session and share tips and resources for work-based learning coordinators and those in similar roles. Presenters will also address the challenges faced by placing students in the community during the time of COVID 19. Each session will include a short presentation, breakout room discussion, and time for participants to share related strategies they use in their own schools and workplaces.

Session #1: Ensuring the Health and Safety of Students During Placements, with Ruth Durkee, State Director for Career and Technical Education at the Vermont AOE. In this session, we will discuss how to draft WBL training agreements that clearly describe each party’s responsibilities in following health and safety precautions. We'll also discuss how to craft language to terminate a placement due to health and safety concerns or other factors that may emerge as a result of the pandemic.

Session #2: Exploring Personal and Work Values with Students, with Laurie Berryman, PhD., School Counselor at Spaulding High School. In this session, we will explore tools that can be used, both in-person and remotely, to define the difference between values exploration and goal setting with your students. By digging into personal values and setting goals we can help students define success for themselves.

Session #3: Conducting WBL Activities in the Time of COVID 19, with Rich Tulikangas, Director of Linking Learning to Careers, a statewide initiative through VocRehab VT. This session will identify specific on-line resources that support WBL experiences in the time of COVID 19.

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Berryman, Laurie

Laurie Berryman, Ed.D, currently works as a high school counselor and an adjunct professor at Northern Vermont University. She has worked for the past 25 years serving first generation, low-income students with access to higher education and career planning through two federal Department of Education programs, Talent Search and GEAR UP. Before that, she worked on two different Vermont college campuses as a mental health counselor.

Durkee, Ruth

Ruth Durkee the owner of Durkee-Reymore Consulting, LLC, where she spends her days working on issues of equity, diversity, and civil rights in education at the local, state, and national level. For fifteen years, she was a technical center administrator in Vermont; before that, she served as the Civil Rights Coordinator for the Vermont Department of Education. Ruth has taught at the college and graduate level since 2010. An attorney by training and an educator at heart, Ruth’s goal in all of her courses is to help educators understand how the law applies to the work that they do in order to inform and enhance their professional practice. Ruth received her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School, her B.A. from the College of Wooster, and certification as a mediator through Woodbury College. She is licensed as a Career and Technical Center Director and Assistant Director for Adult Education in Vermont.

Tulikangas, Rich

Rich Tulikangas currently serves as Director of the Vermont Career Advancement Project, a statewide initiative through HireAbility designed to support youth and adults with disabilities to pursue career pathways and higher wage employment. He has been passionate about helping prepare young people for life beyond high school and been a leader of numerous programs and organizations in Vermont and nationally for over 30 years. He served as HireAbility's Director of Linking Learning to Careers, was the founding Executive Director of Linking Learning to Life/Navicate, the Work-Based Learning Director for the National Academy Foundation (now NAF), the Consultant and Program Director in several capacities for the VT Agency of Education, and was loaned to the Governor’s Office to develop the state’s School-To-Work plan.