Comments from Speaker

Attached are comments from Susan Nickerson from the Kansas Department of Commerce.

Thank you....

A huge thanks to all who participated on Wednesday and Thursday. Its always a challenge to have a group of educators together, business teachers are no exception---we all have opinions and want them heard!

One thing I continue to remind myself, if each of us didn't have passion for what we do, the process of developing the pathway would be simple---but it would be rather sad.

Our passion drives our discussion and while very spirited at times, the freshing thing is that as a group, we are willing to meet in the summer and work through these issues---the spirited discussion is a product of the passion you have for what you do---that is very exciting and encouraging for our profession and Kansas students!

Again, thank you for your dedication and commitment to Kansas schools.

Workgroup Email List

If you want to visit with someone from the workgroup, the updated Spreadsheet will provide names and emails for all attendee's.

Finance and Marketing Pathway Designs

At the request of Wichita USD 259... (Thanks for suggesting Marla) The next two documents are spreadsheets which provide the competency profiles for the courses included in the pathways.

Marketing Pathway

Finance Pathway

The following two documents will give you the Pretty Picture of respective design model:

Marketing Pathway

Finance Pathway

Technical Level Courses

Ideas of classes that might be added at the Technical Level.

Potential Courses

SCED Document (Full Version)

Take a look at Common Course Codes and Courses Identified in the SCED.

Document

Someone asked about a situation like Business Essentials, which is not listed in the SCED document. Kansas has been one of the early adopters of the SCED system, as we developed courses last year, those courses, course codes (identified on the competency profile) and course description (also on comp profile) have been adopted by SCED---Robin Harris worked collaboratively with them during our development/adoption process.

Since that time, SCED has not released a new document---but the work has been completed for those courses.

Career Cluster Model - SECONDARY

This is the latest version of the Career Clusters Model for the secondary-level.

Business is the purple group---considered a Field.

Business Management and Administration is the Cluster.

Document

NEW Comp Profiles

Developed in 2009 for Career Pathways.

Business Essentials (.5)

Entrepreneurship (.5 - 1.0)

Marketing A and B (1.0)

Accounting A and B (1.)

Competency Profiles

Please NOTE: These are from the old KS Business Curriculum!

Marketing and Social Business Subjects

Accounting and Finance Areas

Business Law Competency Profile

Core Academic Standards (Perhaps an Old Version)

PowerPoint from Wednesday - Day 1

Kirk's PowerPoint Presentation

High Skill, High Wage, High Demand

How are these defined? One-page document from Kirk Haskins of the definitions from the Fed's.

High Demand 13% Growth or Higher

High Wage $13.75 or Higher

High Skill Not an entry-level position...

Document is an excerpt from Carl Perkins Federal Grant Document.

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Information regarding the Business Administration field and potential growth, wages, etc. as provided by KSDE can be found here.

(This is the pdf file in landscape provided by the Kansas Department of Labor.)

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Document contains the BMA Matrix---the document that identifies all of the potential pathways/strands in the Business Administration/Management Pathway, as defined by States Career Cluster (national organization) and then relates specific occupations from the Kansas Dept of Labor document, then identifies wage, skill, demand components.

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