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Early College Pathways Program and Student Success Presentation The Early College Pathways Program     I selected my research completed with the The Early College Pathways program that I help to manage.   The Early College Pathways program is a partnership between the local community college and school district to allow students to earn high school and college credit simultaneously, in order to graduate with a high school diploma and a college associate's degree. There are three degree tracks for students to choose from. They are the Associate in Science, General Education, Associate of Applied Science, Medical Assisting Technology, and Associate of Technology, Welding. The goal of this program is to have students graduate and ready to enter the college or the workforce.       The first associate's degree allows students to complete their prerequisite courses and seek to complete a bachelor's degree in a specific field. This degree is fully transferable in the state of Alab

     ATTENDING THE ACHIEVE CONFERENCE     I was fortunate to attend the ACHIEVE Conference with the Northwest Shoals Community College Advising department. Throughout this conference,  I was able to meet with different college and university professionals from all across Alabama.      The ACHIEVE Conference is in it's 6th year and was hosted at the University of South Alabama. In addition to USA being the host school, Coastal Alabama Community College and Bishop State Community College. The conference's main goal is to gather advisors and other college and university specialists to discuss and learn how to best utilize the Alabama Transfers guide to facilitate students transferring from 2 year to 4 year institutions and from institution to institution. This allows students to have the peace of mind knowing that their classes will transfer, if they ever need to change institutions.  ALABAMA TRANSFERS     The Alabama Transfers agreement is a legislative agreement between communit

       In order to be a competent and effective leader, one must understand the vision of the organization that it leads. According to the CETL framework, Professional Category 1: Leadership and Vision has three main components: leadership and vision, strategic planning, and ethics and policies. Leadership and Vision ED 621 Technology Plan      In the subcategory for Professional Category 1, leadership and vision, I selected a technology plan that I created for a class titled, "Instructional Technology Leadership and Management". In this technology plan, I was tasked to analyze and evaluate potential problems concerning internet safety and security that would be addressed as an instructional technology professional for a school district. Some of the questions answered in the technology plan addressed issues of supporting student achievement, creating an effective and sound plan to address the issue of internet safety and security, and bolstering support to carry out the techn