Hannah Schmitz 11/6/23 Hannah Schmitz 11/6/23

Prepping for your CLNA 2023

Some tips for preparing for your upcoming meeting with stakeholders to conduct a Comprehensive Local Needs Assessment (CLNA),

Hannah Schmitz 8/23/23 Hannah Schmitz 8/23/23

Better Assessing the Whole Child to Achieve Higher Academic Outcomes

The long-held convention of focusing on academic assessments without understanding or assessing students’ social and emotional development is a missed opportunity and has left us unable to see, understand, and appreciate the whole child.

Hannah Schmitz 12/1/22 Hannah Schmitz 12/1/22

Data Literacy as a Tool for Program Improvement

Trying to understand how to improve student academic interest and performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and specifically career and technical education (CTE) courses, programs, and careers is not easy because of the exhaustive number of variables involved. Students and their experiences, culture, caregivers, adolescent development, prior education (or access), language development, socioeconomic factors, employment options, class, gender, race, community life (and more) all add data to the education equation we are trying to solve.

Hannah Schmitz 12/11/19 Hannah Schmitz 12/11/19

Questions from the field: How do we continue to increase numbers of male and female students in educational programs that are nontraditional for them?

I’m often asked the questions, “How can we affect changes in student selection decisions for career and technical education (CTE) programs of study?” and “How can I convince a girl entering high school to consider a program in manufacturing or building trades or a boy entering high school to consider a nursing program?” Because so many potential factors influence student course and program choices (e.g., parents, peers, prior learning, cultural bias, hormones, and more), how can educators ensure the all students have full access to any and all of the CTE programs? Equally important, how can educators ensure that progress toward increasing enrollment for traditionally underrepresented students continue over time?