August 22, 2019
Ohio Family and Consumer Sciences Newsletter
Announcements
Upcoming Dates
Ohio FFA Center open state-wide (limited to 50 people)
Eastland Career Center
September 27 - NextGen FinCamp, Financial Literacy Training - Cleveland Airport Marriott
September 30-October 2 - Capitol Leadership FCS Advocate Day,
Washington D.C.
Apollo Career Center
October 3 - WebXam Teacher Review
October 9 - WebXam Teacher Workshop, for those new to WebXam
October 14-15 - FCCLA Leadership Training - Heartland Conference Retreat
Marengo Ohio
November 1 - Fall FCS Professional Development, Bexley High School
November 4 - New Adviser/Teacher Training, Ohio FFA Center
November 18 - Early Childhood Education Training, Ohio FFA Center
November 26 - Supervisors Meeting, Ohio FFA Center
Affiliation Updates
This year you must mark your teaching career pathway. For those of you teaching FCS, please mark Education and Training. The National FCCLA office is aware that a correction needs to be made next year.
CDE Handbook
The CDE Handbook has been updated and is located on the Ohiofccla Website.
Changes to WebXam
Some updates made to WebXam include the following enhancements:

  • Graduation Year
  • User tagging
  • Easier editing of student accounts

Please continue to provide us with your feedback and other suggestions at webxam@osu.edu . We want to continue to make the system work for you.
NextGen FinCamp: Free Financial Literacy Professional Development Opportunity
Next Gen Personal Finance ("NGPF") is a non-profit team of former educators delivering free personal finance curriculum, professional development and advocacy support to over 10,000 teachers nationwide. This year an all-day free professional development workshop for Financial Literacy teachers, called FinCamp, will be held in Cleveland, Ohio. Teachers of all backgrounds are welcome. A substitute stipend is available for schools and breakfast and lunch will be provided. This event is limited to the first 50 respondents.Register here
Personal Finance CTAG for Family and Consumer Sciences
We are pleased to announce a new Career-Technical Assurance Guide ( CTAG ) that facilitates transfer within Ohio’s Public Colleges and Universities, as well as, Public Secondary Career-Technical Education programs in Personal Finance. ( Memo )

Process for Students to Earn Credit: The following steps must occur for secondary students to access college credit for this course: 
 
  1. Secondary institutions must submit their course information through CEMS for the ODE course taught at the institution, and according to the submission requirements for CTPF001-Personal Finance.  The Certificate of Affirmation is here. The Affirmation document, signed by a district administrator, affirms that faculty teaching the course recognize that the course provides an opportunity for articulated credit and assures adherence to the SCTAI alignment document as part of the course delivery. 
  2. Students must pass the corresponding End-of-Course (WebXam) examination with a qualifying score of 55 or higher. 
  3. Students must work with their secondary institution to ensure that their official high school transcript, official WebXam score, and the (CT)2Verification Form , available at ODHE website, are submitted to the post-secondary institution where the student chooses to enroll. The post-secondary institution must also be a part of the statewide agreement or offer Career-Technical Education discipline in which to facilitate credit transfer.  
ECE - Ohio Professional Registry
Teachers please make sure your ECE seniors have established a profile with the Ohio Professional Registry. All Career Tech Early Childhood educations have been entered into the system and teachers have now been assigned to the courses.

Once students have established their profile you can register them for the class. When tests have been completed you can mark attendance. If you have questions about scheduling the courses, registering the students or marking their attendance  contact approval@occrra.org . If students are having trouble with their profiles contact registry@occrra.org. Attached is the user guide to help managing trainings and events.
FCCLA Leadership Training T-Shirt
This year FLT attendees will have the opportunity to pre-order a t-shirt to be picked up at FLT. There is a limited number of shirts available. Please complete the attached information and return to Maryjo.kohl@education.ohio.gov by September 15. Each shirt is $12.50 with a $6.00 chapter handling fee.
Ohio FCCLA Facts Grant
STOP cruising through another school year. GO apply for the Ohio FCCLA and Ohio Department of Public Safety grant which offers up to 50 Ohio FCCLA chapters a $1,000 grant each to conduct a FACTS project in their community.

To apply, applicants should create a complete, well-thought-out plan of action using the FCCLA Planning Process as a tool to determine how your chapter would use the $1,000 grant to impact traffic safety within your school or community. Interested chapters must submit their project proposal through the grant application here by November 22, 2019 .

In addition to the $1,000 grant, four chapters will be selected as the most outstanding final projects and will be awarded a $2,500 cash prize each at Ohio FCCLA’s State Leadership Conference and will be considered for additional state and national FACTS program awards. Make traffic safety apart of Your Story, apply for the Ohio FCCLA FACTS grant today!
Career Development Events Update
New STAR Events 
  • Baking and Pastry (Pastry Arts first place)
  • Event Management (takes the place of Life Event Planning, which has been discontinued)
Event Name Changes 
  • Advocacy is now Public Policy Advocate
  • Applied Math for Culinary Management is now Culinary Math Management
  • Environmental Ambassador is now Sustainability Challenge
  • Illustrated Talk is now Professional Presentation
  • Recycling and Redesign is now Repurpose and Redesign 

Event Management
Event Management is an individual or team event that recognizes participants who apply skills in FCS courses to plan an event for a client (an educational institution, community or non-profit organization, business, or a government institution).
 
Participants prepare a portfolio and an oral presentation. Level 2 and 3 participants also complete an event volunteering experience.  
 
This updated event represents careers in the Hospitality and Tourism career pathway, and is the first event to be scaffolded to have a progression of skill requirements with each level, and will have three separate rubrics.
 
Complete event information will be available in the 2019-2020 Competitive Events Guide, expected to be published on or before October 1, 2019. 
Power of One
Power of One is now available on the Portal!  


This newly updated National Program is available to all advisers and is located on the FCCLA Portal! 
 
To access the Power of One:
  • Log into the Portal
  • Click on the Resources Tab
  • Click on Programs/Partnerships
  • Power of One is the first file
  • Page view is included below
 
Power of One features Lesson Plans for each unit; an Introductory PowerPoint for each Unit; five units of updated ideas and information; and a new submission process to make the process easier for the state adviser. The new guide contains an interactive submission form the adviser can save on the computer. These forms will be required to be attached in the portal when the adviser submits names for national recognition, making it easier for you to verify the students who completed all units when you approve the submitted names!
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