Carl Perkins Career and Technical Education Resources
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Welcome to the Carl Perkins website! My name is Bill Losey, your Carl Perkins Grant Coordinator through Southwest Plains Regional Service Center. Please feel free to contact me with questions or ideas you may have regarding this grant. My e-mail address is: bill.losey@swplains.org, and my phone is 800-728-1022. I have had a career in education for over 20 years and in addition to serving as the Carl Perkins Grant Coordinator, I am also a data analyst and a management consultant. I work with school districts in Southwest Kansas, helping them with their KSDE assessment processing as well as mentoring new teachers, conducting workshops to educators and managing our nine Community Learning Centers. Before coming to SWPRSC in 2004, I served as the principal of Hugoton Elementary School for 12 years. While teaching in California, I developed the "Ag in the Classroom Program", which gave urban students the opportunity to learn how much work is involved from the time their food is planted until it gets to the grocery store. As a result, I was named the California Teacher of the Year by the California Farm Bureau Federation. I believe every student deserves to have the best education possible and it up to us to see that they do; together we will work to give our students an opportunity for quality education and a successful future. |
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Working with English Language Learners in the CTE Classroom Rule #1 that all educators of English Language Learners (ELLs) must know is this: Though a student may seem to be very fluent in English as you listen to him in the classroom or in the hallways, he or she may very well still be limited English proficient! read more... |
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Working with Students in Poverty – Driving Forces Dr. Ruby K. Payne, author of “A Framework for Understanding Poverty”, has identified hidden rules in each economic class. These hidden rules drive decisions that families make – including decisions about food, clothing, education, money, social emphasis, and time. read more... |
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Working with English Language Learners in the CTE Classroom Teaching Vocabulary For those of you who took a foreign language in high school or college… Remember starting a new chapter, and your teacher assigning the 25 – 30 vocabulary words at the end to look up and learn? read more... |
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Working with English Language Learners in the CTE Classroom The Importance of Visual Support Language, on the whole, is no more than an abstract series of sound to which each culture assigns meaning – the word “house” is not the house itself, just a label we assign to a certain object, and every language group has its own label for this object. read more... |
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Working with English Language Learners in the CTE Classroom English Language Learners and the Law…or Why ESL? Since we all have taken Exceptional Child as part of our teacher training, we are all familiar with the laws and regulations surrounding the education of Special Education students. However, similar laws and regulations exist concerning the education of English Language Learners (ELLs), but unfortunately many of us do not know what those laws are as they were not part of our teacher preparation. read more... |
