Increasing the effectiveness of career and technical education through focusing on high expectations and full participation for all students and employees in career and education.

Karen Thomas

Choctaw Nation Career Development

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I am currently serving as a Career Counselor with Choctaw Nation Career Development Program. I joined this team in July 2007. Previously, I was employed at Oklahoma Department of CareerTech as Career Development Services Manager and a Regional Career Development Services Specialist from 1995 through July 2007. I recently became certified as a Global Career Development Facilitator. Organizations I have participated in are ACTE, OkACTE, and OK Counselors Association. Prior to this I was a career education teacher and working to complete counselor certification. My other classroom experience was teaching Family and Consumer Sciences from 1987 to 1992. School Counselor Certification was completed in February 1997, a Masters in Secondary Education and Bachelors degree in Vocational Home Economics was completed at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK, in 1988 and 1987 respectively.

 

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