NETCAT, NorthEast Texas Career And Technical Consortium, is a career and technical consortium made up of 13 member school districts in five counties. These districts have pooled their Carl Perkins federal Career and Technical education funds to provide career development resources for member districts and to provide support for technical programs.  Examples of services provided are:  student interest assessment, subscription to career, education and life planning web service, state, regional, local CTE laison, scheduled events for students, CTE program planning, counselor forum, monthly newsletter (LifeDraft), and staff development.
 

Currently happening with CTE 

  • legislative support for expansion  of     CTE programs  

 

  • possible approval of additional CTE courses that count for core credit
 
NETCAT Focus
 
  • coordination of field trips into            industry..specifically L3, Hunt           regional hospital, Case New Holland          Bonham State Prison
 
 
  • Program planning for 2013-14
 
  • Establishing electronic portfolios for eighth graders
 
 

  

 
 Workforce and Education LInks
 
 

      Career InfoNet
 
      North Central Texas InterLink     
 
      Reality Check
            
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    
 
 
 ADVISORY BOARD
   Sally Bird, Greenville Chamber of Commerce
    Willie Blow, L3 Communications
    Blake Cooper, Commerce ISD Superintendent
    Brent Donham, Dean of Engineering Dept., TAMU-C
    Luis Franco, Hispanic Outreach, TAMU-C
    Anne Mills, Special Education Consultant
    Jeanette Moser, Atmos Energy
    Demetra Robinson, Municipal Judge, Commerce
    Candy Slocum, InterLink
    Dian Underwood,  Tri-County Spec. Ed. Coop
    Bennett Vandiver, Quality Control, Covidian
    Mary Wallace, Secondary Initiatives Curriculum Director
    Wyman Williams,  Institutional Advancement, TAMU-C

 

For all secondary classroom teachers...

Student in your districts have established electronic portfolios through the Choices Explorer.  At the end of each year these portfolios have been transferred to your high schools. Students will have lifelong use of these as long as they update them at least  once a year.  To access these portfolios go to: bridges.com and then you will need a login.  Please call Mary Park 903 366 9400 for your login information or to set up a professional portfolio for you.  Uses for the portfolio include but are not limited to:
o   Storage of any good work students do (can be used instead of a flash drive)
o   Record of self assessments that students take within the Choices Explorer
o   Practice in creating resumes
o    composing letters of various kinds
o   answering a variety of different types of interview questions
o    keeping a journal for reflection
o   Conducting and storing the results of career, college and financial aide searches
o   Researching any topic
o   Finding college and post-secondary options
o   Comparing post-secondary institutions for costs, program options, etc.