Program Improvement Process for Equity Summary Handout
This three-page handout describes PIPE and its five modules, what state team members can expect, and highlights.

Program Improvement Process for Equity Webinars
A webinar that provides an overview of this five-step process as well as webinars specific to steps 1 to 5 are available on NAPEquityTV.

Modules 2 and 3 Web Resources
This handout provides links to other resources and organizations to assist state teams in their work during these modules.

Guide for Program Improvement for Perkins IV: Nontraditional CTE Program Participation and Completion
A step-by-step guide for using PIPE to analyze Perkins performance data, identify root causes, select appropriate strategies, pilot test and evaluate, and implement to increase the participation and completion of underrepresented gender students in nontraditional CTE.

Nontraditional Career Preparation: Root Causes and Strategies
This is a summary review of the research literature through 2008 on the participation and completion of students in nontraditional CTE and females in STEM education. Research-based root causes, theories, and strategies are presented in a summary introductory table followed by more complete descriptions of the research behind the theories, evidence, strategies and recommendations, and effective practices and resources.

Startling Statements
This training exercise involves consideration of workforce participation and earnings data by gender for nontraditional and STEM-related occupations and for special populations.

Case Study and Worksheet
This activity helps participants see what happens when you jump to conclusions about the barriers that students are facing to participating and completing nontraditional CTE programs.

Early Exposure
Research shows that individuals who have been exposed to nontraditional careers early in life or are introduced to the basics of a technical career field are more likely to succeed in their program of study and select a career in the field. This exercise illustrates what it is like to not be unfamiliar with items related to technology—a common occurrence for students entering an unknown nontraditional training program.

Developing a Root Cause Theory Exercise
These two exercises, which compliment each other, can be used to demonstrate how a group of individuals at a local education agency could process the root causes information and develop a theory for the root causes that represent the most direct barrier for students pursuing nontraditional careers. Root Causes Cards and Exercise Instructions

Conducting a Study of Root Causes
Click on the CD Contents link below to access instruments and resources that can be used by a local team to conduct action research at home to effectively identify root causes for student participation and completion of nontraditional CTE programs.

Root Causes and Effective Practices
Click on the CD Contents link below for an exercise that matches root causes and strategies.

Professional Development Implementation Planning
Central to the STEM Equity Pipeline Project is the intent that the training that participants receive will be used to train others. This may mean going back to their home schools to work with a team of staff and faculty to implement the Program Improvement Process for Equity, conducting training with others in the state through their particular professional development network, or presenting at local, state, or national conferences. The planning template is used to get participants started on their professional development implementation plan. We use this plan as a baseline when conducting follow-up evaluation with training participants to determine the effect of the training on their work and on those whom they have trained.

CD Contents
This webpage includes all of the above resources in addition to community college nontraditional programs surveys, classroom instruction resources, and tip sheets.