"Connecting Students to Career Pathways"

Tech Prep Contact Information:
Cindy Johnson, Tech Prep Coordinator
East Mississippi Community College
8731 South Frontage
P. O. Box 100 Mayhew, MS 39753
Telephone: (662) 243-1908 Fax: (662) 243-1932

What is Tech Prep?

The East Mississippi Community College Tech Prep Consortium originated in 1991 and is composed of EMCC and eight local secondary districts, five secondary career/technical centers, and ten secondary high schools. Counties included in the consortium are Clay, Kemper, Lauderdale, Lowndes, Noxubee, and Oktibbeha. The mission of Tech Prep is to connect students through career pathways to be globally competitive lifelong learners. TECH PREP is transitioning from the original school-to-careers program model to focusing on the Redesign plan for schools in Mississippi. In each Mississippi community college there is a Tech Prep Coordinator that works with the secondary schools in that district to provide teacher, counselor, and administrative support to the Redesign sites.

Training in the following areas will be provided by Tech Prep:

• Academics and Redesign
• CTE and the Miss. Curriculum Framer project
• Counselor training
• Education, Industry, and Community Partnerships Leadership
• Math in CTE
• Mentoring program
• Programs of study
• Redesign Preparatory Training

• Understanding by Design (UbD)
• Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
• Internet and computing Core Certification (IC3)

• Response to Intervention (RtI) and Student Services
• S.T.A.R.T. Centers