Ohio College Tech Prep Podcast
The Northeast Ohio Tech Prep Region’s (at least) monthly podcast about current events surrounding Ohio Tech Prep and Career Technical Education throughout the state of Ohio. Each episode will feature the host interviewing a dynamic guest whether they are an educational partner, a representative from the Ohio Department of Education, or an Industry Partner, you are sure to get some really useful information about CTE.
Episodes
This month’s episode features the first of a two part interview with Robert Ross from State Support Team Region 3. During this interview Robert and host Matt Cola discuss various strategies for how to best support students with disabilities in their Career Technical Education endeavors.
Several of the resources mentioned are listed below:
https://ood.ohio.gov/
In our March episode of the Ohio College Tech Prep Podcast, host Matt Cola from Kent State University and the Northeast Ohio Tech Prep Region sits down with Bill Dimascio from the Four Cities Compact to explore an exciting and often overlooked area of Career Technical Education (CTE)—middle school programs.
During this engaging conversation, Matt and Bill dive into: Funding Strategies: How to secure and sustain financial support fo...
Episode 15: Including the Student Voice on your Business Advisory Council In this episode Host Matt Cola interviews Mr. Ryan O’Donnell from the Columbiana County Educational Service Center and the Columbiana County BAC discuss the BAC’s decision to include student members as part of their council. In the discussion Ryan and Matt discuss how having student members has changed the way the council operates, the benefits of having st...
In this episode host Matt Cola interviews Harleigh Hodge from Ashtabula County Technical and Career Campus. This episode is the first of several that will focus on different Perkins V special populations.
In this episode Matt and Harleigh discuss the population Students with Disabilities. Harleigh provides strategies aimed at how to best support and work with the special population.
During the interview, Harleigh specifically menti...
For our last podcast of the year host Matt Cola, Tech Prep Coordinator from Kent State University, out of the Northeast Ohio Tech Prep Region, had the opportunity to interview Chefs Anthony Thomas and Tiffany Daley from Trumbull Career and Technical Center.
During this interview Chefs Thomas and Daley discussed opportunities available in Trumbull Career and Technical Center’s Culinary Arts Academy, how they navigate work-based lear...
This month’s episode features the second in our two part series centering on providing advice to new CTE educators from a veteran Educator. This is the second half of the interview where Host, Matt Cola speaks to Veteran Educator (and current Lakeland Community College Tech Prep Coordinator) Lucy Ott.
During this episode they touch on Career Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs,) WebXams, Work-Based Learning, Ohio Graduation Seal...
This month’s podcast episode features host Matt Cola interviewing Lucy Ott, a veteran former CTE teacher and current Northeast Ohio Tech Prep Coordinator at Lakeland Community College.
This episode kicks off a two-part series aimed at supporting new CTE educators. In the first episode, listeners will gain valuable insights on navigating their first year as a CTE teacher, marketing their programs, implementing strategies for recruit...
During this episode of the Ohio College Tech Prep Podcast, Host Matt Cola, of Kent State University and the Northeast Ohio College Tech Prep Region interviews Mary Jane Stanchina of the Six District Educational Compact.
During the episode Mary Jane shares information about how the Aeronautics Careers Academy Stem Program incorporates work-based learning opportunities into the program, speaks about how the compact creates strong bus...
Welcome to Season 2 of the Ohio College Tech Prep Podcast!
This month's episode sees host, and Northeast Ohio Tech Prep Coordinator from Kent State Matt Cola (mcola@kent.edu) interviewing Sandy Furano, Director of the Mahoning Valley Regional Council of Governments and Career Counseling Services at the Educational Service Center of Eastern Ohio
During the episode, Matt and Sandy discuss the Eastern Ohio ESC Business Advisory Coun...
During this month's podcast episode Kent State Tech Prep Coordinator Matt Cola sat down with Jacob Duritsky, the Vice President of Strategy, Research, and Talent from Team NEO to discuss the workforce needs of Northeast Ohio, and to learn a little bit more about what Team Neo does, and how they can help our CTE Educators and their students.
If you have any questions for Jacob he can be reached at jduritsky@teamneo.org.
This month Matt Cola, the Tech Prep Coordinator from Kent State University interviews Lynette Boggs from the Wayne County Schools Career Center. During the interview the two discuss the new CTE option, The Innovative Pathway.
Lynette details the process of applying for this type of program, and explains why Wayne County Schools Career Center decided to utilize this option for their Industrial Electronics program.
During this month’s episode of the Ohio College Tech Prep Podcast, host Matt Cola of the Northeast Ohio Tech Prep Region, and Kent State University interviewed Dr. Joseph Glavan. The two discussed Mentor School District’s Career Academies, which just received a $2.2 Million Grant for Career Technical Education.
These Academies were designed to give all students in the district an opportunity to engage in career exploration, regardl...
This month’s episode features an engaging discussion with Marina Goldshmidt who is the Kent State Outreach Program Director for the Ohio Semiconductor Education and Research Program regarding the work of the grant, along with several unique work-based learning opportunities available to students involved in programs related to the Semiconductor Industry.
To register for the free Introduction to Semiconductor Devices Microcredentia...
This month's episode features the second half of the interview with Dr. Ben Parrot from the Ohio Department of Higher Education.
If you'd like to contact Dr. Parrot, please e-mail him at: BParrot@highered.ohio.gov
To view resources regarding credits, and opportunities across the state visit: https://transfercredit.ohio.gov/
To reach out to Matt with suggestions for the podcast including topics or guests, please e-mail him at: mcol...
Join Kent State Tech Prep Coordinator Matt Cola as he interviews Dr. Ben Parrot from the Ohio Department of Higher Education as they discuss types of credit available to CTE Students.
This is the first in a two-part interview with Dr. Parrot, with part to expected in early December.
If you'd like to contact Dr. Parrot, please e-mail him at: BParrot@highered.ohio.gov
To view resources regarding credits, and opportunities across t...
Join host Matt Cola from the Kent State University Office of Tech Prep as he interviews Nick Mennen, the Principal Software Engineer for AI at OnlineMedEd.
During the interview, they discussed skills that the technology field expects for high school graduates, post-high school pathways into the field involving college or boot camps, potential future internships, and AI.
To reach Mr. Mennen feel free to e-mail him at nick.mennen@o...
This episode included a pre-recorded snippet of a webinar featuring many speakers (including Michelle, who was featured in this episode) the full duration of which can be found: Here.
For more information on Business Advisory Councils, including all application materials references in this episode visit the Business Advisory Council Webpage on the Ohio Department of Education Website.
The Office of Graduate Success will hold virtu...
The theme for September is Business Advisory Councils (BAC)! The first of this month's two episodes features an interview with Marie Williams from the Columbiana County Educational Service Center, which is the organization that runs the Columbiana County Business Advisory Council.
The Columbiana County BAC is one of only five BACs in all of Ohio to earn the 4-star award status in 2023. In the interview, Marie shares tips, tricks, a...
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