Dominique Bates

• Provide districtwide leadership for CTE programs serving grades 5–12, ensuring alignment with DPI, Perkins V, and local accountability requirements.
• Serve as regional collaborator and technical assistance provider, coaching principals, CTE administrators, and instructional leaders.
• Designed and implemented districtwide PLC and professional development systems aligned to instructional and compliance priorities.
• Led significant increases in credential attainment, assessment proficiency, special populations performance, and non-traditional concentrator participation.
• Sustained high teacher retention and low turnover through intentional onboarding, mentorship, and leadership development.
• Partnered with over 300 business, industry, and postsecondary stakeholders to expand work-based learning.

• Supports schoolwide leadership initiatives including instructional improvement and data analysis
• Leads a task force for a state-designated low-performing school to identify gaps and design targeted professional development.
• Leads CTE Integration PLCs to strengthen instructional alignment, career-connected learning, and cross-curricular collaboration.
• Provides instructional leadership support through data analysis, classroom walkthroughs, and administrator collaboration.

• Collaborated with CTE Director, CDCs, administrators, student services personnel, and teachers to ensure delivery of career development services for 7 middle schools and 8 high schools.
• Created and led monthly CTE Professional Development and Training for the entire CTE staff of 85 teachers and 10 support staff.
• Facilitated partnerships with parents, business/industry, postsecondary institutions, and community organizations to support students' transition to postsecondary education and employment.
• Provided support, mentorship, professional and staff development for 8 Career Development Coordinators.
• Coordinated and maintained business, education, and community partnerships that provides opportunities for CTE students.
• Led district wide work-based learning activities such as internships, job shadowing, field trips, career fairs, apprenticeships and industry tours.

• Cultivated relationships with business and community leaders to provide students with real-world, on-the-job training, recruiting internships, pre-apprenticeships, and job shadowing opportunities.
• Collaborated with administrators, student services personnel, teachers, parents, business/industry, postsecondary institutions, military, community organizations, and other stakeholders to ensure students are enrolled, enlisted, or employed.
• Supported RSS high school academies by marketing and promoting career pathways at each school, facilitating career development services for students within each career academy, and creating experiences that support development of the RSS directional system: Academic Standards, Interpersonal Skills, and Unique Life Goals.
• Collaborated with Apprenticeship NC, local Community College, and local organizations to register official NC Apprenticeship programs.
• Established 4 state-approved Apprenticeship programs.
• Coordinated and facilitated district-wide work-based learning continuum for grades (5 -12)

• Increased work-based learning experiences for students to include internships, apprenticeships, job shadowing, field trips and guest speakers by more than 50%.
• Developed departmental systems and procedures to better align workflow processes.
• Served as liaison with CTE, guidance services and district relations to promote Career and Technical Education initiatives for 900 students.
• Promoted integration of career research and work-based learning opportunities into CTE and academic courses.
• Coordinated career planning activities in classrooms, groups, or individual sessions.
• Facilitated Instructional Support and Professional Development to CTE teachers and staff.
• Aided students with postsecondary education and employment opportunities.
• Increased number of students obtaining National Industry
  Certifications by more than 50%.
• Established county's first registered Apprenticeship.

• Provided high-quality instructional practices to middle school students while maintaining a nurturing learning environment.
• Appointed to leadership roles that supported school-wide and community stakeholders.
• Created and executed integrated lesson plans that met the individual needs of each student and aligned with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
• Participated in collaborative team planning.
• Used data to drive daily instruction.
• Utilized technology to enrich student engagement.
  Prepared assignments, course curriculum, learning goals, formative and summative assessments in order to measure student performance.

GPA: 4.0