My CDC/SPC Roles:

♦ Coordinate career development services and career planning activities in classrooms, groups, or individual sessions.
♦ Promote career awareness, exploration, and planning.
♦ Provide career development, occupational, labor market, non-traditional career, and postsecondary information.
♦ Assists students with selection of appropriate academic and CTE courses.
♦ Provide and coordinate administration and interpretation of career assessments.
♦ Provide information on postsecondary education programs and employment opportunities.
♦ Assist students with postsecondary education and employment opportunities.
♦ Facilitate work-based learning opportunities.
♦ Provide and coordinate activities for students to develop employability skills.
♦ Promote the integration of career research and work-based learning opportunities into CTE and academic courses.
♦ Promote the use of technology for career planning and research.
♦ Facilitate business, education, and community partnerships that provide opportunities for students and support CTE.
♦ Serve as a liaison with the business, industry, education, and military community.
♦ Publicize partnership resources.
♦ Participate in professional development activities at the local, regional, state, and national levels.
♦ Engage in professional growth opportunities to remain current with trends, demands, and emerging careers in a rapidly changing workforce.
♦ Coordinate with guidance counselors, CTE teachers, and CTSOs to promote recruitment, enrollment, and placement activities for prospective and current students in CTE.
♦ Provide information about CTE opportunities to special populations, prospective and current CTE students and their parents. 
♦ Assist with district-wide event planning.
♦ Assist school and CTE administrators in identifying programs that need improvement to assist special populations’ students in meeting the performance indicators.
♦ Assist school and CTE administrators in providing strategies to improve supplementary services for members of special populations in meeting the performance indicators.
♦ Maintain relevant record keeping and inventory systems related to job responsibilities.
♦ Coordinate with school and CTE administrators, and other service providers to develop an annual plan of work based on the evaluation and needs assessment results to ensure that students within special populations are receiving adequate supplementary services and career planning.
♦ Identify students within special populations each semester, and provide information to CTE teachers and suggest possible teaching strategies.
♦ Coordinate and assess the characteristics of students using interest inventories, learning style assessments, or similar instruments.
♦ Develop, implement and monitor the CDP.
♦ Participate on the IEP Team for students enrolled in CTE courses, as needed, in the development and implementation of the CTE and transition components of the IEP.
♦ Coordinate special services for special populations students.
♦ Maintain a CTE resource lab for members of special populations and CTE teachers.
♦ Assist with transition services for special population students.
♦ Collaborate with CTE teachers and other relevant service providers in providing services to special populations students.
♦ Coordinate with data managers, IMC, special education, vocational rehabilitation, community agencies, businesses/industry, and others to provide supplementary services to members of special populations.
♦ Facilitate in-service training for school personnel working with students within special populations to improve their abilities and techniques in meeting the special needs of these students.
♦ Monitor the CTE component of the IEP and CDP+ to ensure that appropriate supplementary services are provided and performance indicators are met.
♦ Coordinate work experiences and educational trips for special populations students where appropriate.
♦ Monitor LEA, school, and course demographic and attainment data to assist in determining maintenance and improvement of access, progress, and success of students within special populations in CTE programs.
♦ Assist in assessing the attainment of performance indicators for students within special populations.
♦ Coordinate with guidance counselors, CTE teachers, and CTSOs to promote recruitment, enrollment, and placement activities for special population students in CTE.