Events
Get Focused Stay Focused Presents
Empowering Career Pathways in a Virtual World
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With Sessions from the Get Focused Stay Focused Founders, Special Guest Presenters,
and Academic Innovations, our Curriculum Partner
Monday, October 26th
Featured Keynote Speaker (3:00pm – 3:30pm)
Dr. Jane Conoley, President
California State University, Long Beach
In her keynote, President Conoley will address the importance of providing college, career, and life planning across all four years of college. She will highlight how California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), is meeting the goals of “The Long Beach College Promise,” a collaborative effort among the Long Beach Unified School District, CSULB, Long Beach City College, the Long Beach Mayor’s office, and the Port of Long Beach to help inspire students to focus on their future goals.
Dr. Conoley will discuss a variety of high impact educational practices that allow students to clarify their values and professional dreams. She will share data indicating that Promise Students are arriving to CSULB more prepared academically and are persisting and graduating at historic levels.
Get Focused Stay Focused Overview (3:45pm – 4:20pm)
Dr. Lauren Wintermeyer Ramirez
Co-Founder, Get Focused Stay Focused
Dr. Lauren Wintermeyer Ramirez will present an overview of the Get Focused Stay Focused programs for both high school and college. She will discuss this comprehensive guidance course designed to increase high school and college completion AND propel successful entry into the workforce. It can be a challenge for the Community College to develop a seamless transition model to effectively onboard students knowing that some have had four years of GFSF in high school, while others enter the college having no prior career development experience. Attend this session to strategize how you can develop an FYE model that is flexible in meeting students where they are and ensuring that they are supported throughout their transition into post-secondary education.
Concurrent Sessions (4:30pm – 5:30pm)
SESSION ONE:
Dual Enrollment/Articulation – Bridging the K14 gap with dual enrollment and GFSF: This session focuses on the development of early college credit courses using the Get Focused Stay Focused Program.
Presenters
- Dr. Diane Hollems & Dr. Lauren Wintermeyer Ramirez, Co-founders of Get Focused Stay Focused
SESSION TWO:
Best Practices for Regional GFSF Implementation & Sustainability: This session will highlight customized Get Focused Stay Focused professional development models from the Northern and Central Valley regions of CA to meet the specialized needs of their regional educators.
Presenters
- Tanya Meyer, K-14 Technical Assistance Provider, North Far North Consortium
- Dr. Bonita Steele, Director of Career Pathways, Kern CCD
SESSION THREE:
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in College and Career for Black, Indigenous and People of Color: This panel discussion will include practitioners from across California who teach and support high school, adult school, non-traditional school settings, incarcerated students and community college GFSF courses. Join them in a safe space to nurture an antiracist mindset and discuss strategies to integrate equity, access, and culturally responsive and relevant strategies that you can use in your GFSF program. There will be a question and answer period.
Presenters
- Lisa M. Wilson, M.Ed., Program Director for LACCEP, Founder and Facilitator for C.A.R.E., Activist & Educator
- Skyler Barton, M.S., Counselor/Instructor, Berkeley City College
- Jasdeep Malhi, M.A. P.P.S., Lead Intervention Counselor/Coordinator, Berkeley High School, & Berkeley City College Instructor
- Rachelle Fast, GFSF Teacher, Cesar Chavez High School
- Geno Malkiewicz, Transition Specialist, Capital Adult Education Regional Consortium
Sessions from Academic Innovations, our Curriculum Partner
Tuesday, October 27th
Featured Presentation (3:00pm – 3:30pm)
Mindy Bingham
Best-selling author of the Career Choices series
High Tech and High Touch: To Facilitate Lifelong Change Today, You Can’t Have One Without the Other
Join us for this unique opportunity to hear Career Choices series best-selling author Mindy Bingham explain how the high touch of this classroom-based, comprehensive guidance course—used by over 2 million students—is supported by a variety of high tech enhancements that meld the best of these two necessary components together. Also, learn why this combination is the formula for student success—for this class or any other class today.
Concurrent Sessions (3:35pm – 4:25pm)
SESSION FOUR:
How to Integrate Technology Skill-Building into Your Career Choices and Changes Course Using a Variety of Google and Microsoft Platforms
SESSION FIVE:
A Tour of the New Career Choices and Changes Online Student Edition
SESSION SIX:
How to Use Zoom Enhancements to Promote Engagement in the Career Choices Series Classroom: Energizing Activities for Remote Learning
Concurrent Sessions (4:30pm – 5:30pm)
SESSION SEVEN:
Tips for Using Canvas in Your Career Choices Series Course
SESSION EIGHT:
Professional Development at Your Fingertips: An Overview of the Online Self-Directed Study Options for Your Get Focused…Stay Focused!® Program
SESSION NINE:
Tips for Using Google Classroom in Your Career Choices Series Course
Wednesday, October 28th
Featured Presentation (3:00pm – 3:30pm) – Postponed
Dr. Karen Miles
Get Focused Stay Focused Coach, Author and Career Development Consultant
The Employability Mindset: Helping ALL students Make Choices that Support Lifelong Self-Sufficiency—Both Financial and Emotional
Starting as early as middle school, it is important to help students envision a productive and healthy future and develop a plan to make it a reality. Learn from author and career guidance expert, Dr. Karen Miles, about a variety of strategies including the high demand/higher wage function on My10yearPlan.com® which supports the goals of Career Pathways.
Concurrent Sessions (3:35pm – 4:25pm)
SESSION TEN:
The Online Skills-Based Education Plan: Ensuring Students Graduate with the Skills Necessary to Compete in Today’s Workforce
SESSION ELEVEN:
Tips from the Trenches: Strategies for Implementing Your GFSF Follow-Up Modules
Concurrent Sessions (4:30pm – 5:30pm)
SESSION THIRTEEN:
Start-Up Strategies for the GFSF Follow-Up Modules: An Overview of the Online Self-Directed Study Options
SESSION FOURTEEN:
The 10-Year Planning Process for Adult Education Programs: A Lifelong Skill
SESSION FIFTEEN:
Blending Career Exploration and Social and Emotional Development: An Overview of the Get Focused…Stay Focused!® Middle School Bridge Program
Thursday, October 29th
Featured Presentation (3:00pm – 3:30pm)
Dr. Rebecca Dedmond
Founder of the Freshman Transition Initiative of The George Washington University
Academic Coaching Strategies Using the High Tech of My10yearPlan.com® with the High Touch of CAREing Conversations
Dr. Rebecca Dedmond, founder of the Freshman Transition Initiative at The George Washington University and creator of the CAREing Conversations model, shares strategies for helping every educator on your campus develop the skills necessary to advise or coach students to the realization of their plans and goals.