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ACTE Hosting First "Day of Service" in Las Vegas

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

ALEXANDRIA, VA—The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) announces today a partnership with the Home Builders Institute (HBI) and Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas to host the Association’s first-ever Day of Service on Saturday, December 4, at ACTE’s Annual Convention and Career Tech Expo. During the Day of Service, career and technical educators will utilize their technical skills to build homes for needy families in Clark County.

ACTE Reveals 2011 National CTE Month Theme, Logo Design Contest

ALEXANDRIA, VA—The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) announces the 2011 Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month theme: CTE: Learning Today, Earning Tomorrow. CTE Month is a celebration of CTE that occurs each February. ACTE is looking for a student-designed logo that illustrates how students learning CTE today will be successful in the future. The contest is open to all CTE students. The designer of the winning CTE Month logo will receive a check for $250.

ACTE Announces "Career Ready" Definition

ALEXANDRIA, VA—The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) today released a paper titled “What Is ‘Career Ready’?” that outlines three broad sets of skills students need to be career-ready: core academic skills, employability skills and technical skills. ACTE created the paper to broaden the national discussion around the term "career readiness."

ACTE Announces Cliff Weiss Essay Contest Winners

ALEXANDRIA, VA—The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) today announced Jessica Newbold of South Jordan, Utah, as secondary category winner, and Deanna Prufert of Moore, Oklahoma, as postsecondary category winner for the 2010 Cliff Weiss Memorial Essay Contest. The winners wrote essays on the topic, “How Is CTE an Investment in Your Future?” ACTE received 177 entries, and each of the winners will receive an award of $250. The essays will be published in the September issue of Techniques magazine.

Jones Wins CTE Month Logo Contest

ALEXANDRIA, VA—The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) announces that Ian Jones from Willingboro, New Jersey, has won the 2011 Career and Technical Education Month Logo Design Contest. Jones will receive a check for $250, and the logo will be used to promote the 2011 CTE Month theme, CTE: Learning Today, Earning Tomorrow. ACTE received 85 entries for this year’s contest.

ACTE Announces Strategic Partnership With Worldwide Interactive Network

ALEXANDRIA, VA—The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) has launched a strategic partnership with Worldwide Interactive Network (WIN) that will help educators analyze workforce and economic data to better align education and training with future labor-market needs. The partnership will kick-off with introductory and feedback sessions being held at the ACTE Region V conference in Anchorage, Alaska.

ACTE to Release Career-readiness Definition

Recently, the Obama Administration and groups like the National Governors Association, Council of Chief State School Officers and other national and state policymakers have discussed the importance of high schools preparing students to be “college- and career-ready.” However, the discussion has mostly centered on college readiness, with little focus on actual career readiness. The question remains, “What does it mean to be career-ready?”