ACTE 2007 Annual Convention and Career Tech Expo
December 13-15
Las Vegas Convention Center, NV

ACTE’s Division vice presidents have put together a high quality program that addresses a number of timely issues in career and technical education. Below is a list of accepted session titles. Information on Agriculture Education and Marketing Education are still forthcoming. NAAE is working with ACTE on the agriculture sessions and MarkEd is working with ACTE on the marketing sessions. Information will be added as it becomes available.

Updated as of August 15, 2007

Administration Division Program Sessions

• Safe Schools: Developing & Maintaining an Effective Crisis Plan
• 9th Grade Academy: Transitioning Students from Middle to High School
• A Guide to Collaborative Teaching and Assessment of Integrated Math and Science to
• Facilitate Awarding Core Academic Credit in CTE Programs
• Activating Student Potential with Baldrige
• Articulations and Scholarship Opportunities      
• Become a National Blue Ribbon Lighthouse School--First Steps          
• Building Pathways to College and Careers        
• Career Interventions - An ACRN Career Research Grant
• Combining Rigor and Relevance: CTE Curriculum Mapping Using ACT College Readiness Standards and HEAR         
• Conquering Change in the Workplace: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!            
• Creating a 20/20 Vision for Educating Students            
• CTE - High Definition Education: A Marketing Dilemma           
• Data Driven Teacher Conferences        
• How to Be Enrollment and Retention Rich
• How to Create Change & Live To Tell About It - A Simple, Proven Formula
• Leading the Career-Technical Education Enterprise: Which Way?         
• Preserving and Expanding Career and Technical Programs in a Shrinking School           
• Recruit and Retain the BEST Staff in Your School!
• School Financing: Same Problem, Different Solution
• Writing Strategies in Career and Technical Education Courses

Adult Workforce Development Program Sessions

• Career Maturity of General Education Development (GED) Students    
• Providing Innovative Workforce Development Programming while Keeping Up with a Global Economy            
• Revolutionizing the Strategic Management Process for Effective Leadership and Team Development for Career Focused Organizations   
• School Business Partnerships—Making It Work!          
• The Career Readiness Certificate—Exciting Growth and Evolution       
• Training for Diverse Generations    

Agricultural Education/NAAE Program Sessions

These sessions are being developed in partnership with NAAE. These sessions will be listed as soon as they are available.

Business Education Division Program Sessions

• Assessing Your Instruction to Meet State Standards
• Beyond Advisory Committees: Engaging Partners         
• BT5—Business Technology On-line Curriculum Guide: 2006 & Beyond          
• Business Related Course Requirements for Graduation in U.S. High Schools        
• Financial Literacy for Teens: Learn Now or Pay Later!
• Incorporating Leadership and Teambuilding in your Classroom
• Integrating Reading Strategies into the CTE Classroom
• Integrating Your CTSO into the Curriculum      
• Problem-Based Entrepreneurship Learning       
• Risky Business: What Every Student Needs to Know About Personal Finance  
• Teaching Strategies to Build a Career Technical Business Program        
• Teaching to Industry-Based Skill Certificates in the High School Classroom: Is it Worth the Effort?  
• The Effect of Personal Experience on Adult Professional Learning in the Field of Continuous Education of Finance in Taiwan
• The Taxman Cometh: Running a High School Tax Center         
• Vodcasting Essentials—You Building the Video
• Why do I need to know Math? Strategies for Improving Math Skills through CTE        

Engineering and Technology Education Division Program Sessions

• C.O.W. Day - Career Exploration on the Mooove!      
• Creating Innovative Videos with Movie Maker 2.0       
• Designing Secondary Architecture Curriculum  
• Developing an Instrument for Assessment in Drafting Technology          
• Engaging Students with World Class Manufacturing      
• F1 in Schools Technology Challenge    
• Female Recruitment - Cheering in the Classroom          
• Integrating Special Need Students into Technology Education Classrooms        
• Manufacturing Biotechnology: Let's Be Real     
• Programming with Alice to Increase Interest in Computer Science Careers for High School Students
• Recruiting Middle and High School Engineering/Technology Teachers   
• Robotic Competition Programs to Complement Technology Education
• Starting a Competitive Robotics Team: Epiphany or Insanity     
• Student Engineering Design Programs to Create Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
• Taking STEPS into the Engineering Pipeline      
• The FIRST Solution: Robotics Activities Point the Way to Career Success       
• The Power of an e-Portfolio     
• The Relationship with ACTE High Schools and Transitioning from an Industrial Technology to and Engineering Technology Baccalaureate Program

Family and Consumer Sciences Education Division Program Sessions

• Active Learning in the Family and Consumer Sciences Classroom         
• Building Financial Literacy Foundations at the Middle Level      
• Chocolate Soup for the CTE Soul        
• Collaborative Professional Development for Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) Teachers: Between Ohio’s Dept of Education, Assn of Supervisors of FCS, Assn of Teachers of FCS and Higher Ed        
• Culinary Arts Foundations- A New Pathway to Culinary Arts Careers  
• Everyone Loves a Good Story
• FCS Programs—Tools to Support Your Programs       
• FCSEA Executive Board Meeting        
• FCSEA Monographs 2007      
• How Much do Things Really Cost? Teaching using Real Life Finance Simulations          
• Implementing Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) Career Clusters: Opportunities and Challenges     
• Learning Theory Applications in FCS High School Classrooms
• Making the Grade: Assessment of FCS Teachers' Understanding and Program Implementation Regarding the National Standards for Teachers of FCS            
• Revision of the Service-Learning Component in an Undergraduate Family and Consumer Sciences Adolescent Development Course            
• Teens and Social Networking Sites: What is the Attraction?      
• Test Writing Tips and Online Rubrics   
• The Roles of Student Organization Players in the Public Policy Arena    
• The Tricks, Tips, and Tools of Financial Education in a Middle School Classroom        
• Work and School Readiness: The Role of Appearance Management

General Program Sessions

• “Skills on Wheels" Connecting Education and Careers  
• "What Are Non-traditional Careers and Why Should My Career Center Care?"           
• AchieveTexas  
• Are Your PowerPoints Working: Or do they just look Pretty?  
• Can You Name An Industry Without Entrepreneurs?    
• Computer Graphic & Animation Applications in Education       
• Connecting Community, Careers, and College  
• CSI-Classroom Success Investigation: Identifying the Secrets of Student Success         
• Developing a Student Exchange Program with China    
• Digital Tools and Blogging in Education: Basic Skills Every Educator needs to Master these New Tools for use in the Classroom       
• Early CTE Awareness: Where Career Opportunities Begin       
• Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and YOU!       
• Evolving Values and Principles for Career and Technical Education       
• Explicit Literacy Instruction in the Career and Technical Education Classroom   
• Focus on Assets—A Positive Approach to Assessment, Evaluation, Group Process, and Problem Solving for Career and Technical Educators 
• Increase Your Enrollment by Using Innovative Delivery of Classes        
• Induction Program Considerations for CTE Teachers   
• Marketing your CTE Program  
• Meeting the High School Mathematics Requirements-Implementing Algebra II within Career Technical Education          
• Missouri's Career Education Mentoring Program          
• Motivational Tools for Non-charismatic Leaders          
• Moving Forward with Student Retention: No Heart Left Behind            
• No Teacher Left Behind: Reframing CTE professional Development     
• Obtaining Information through Basic Research  
• Partnering Patterns for Progress           
• Podcasting: a New Generation of Teaching and Learning          
• Research Topics in CTE: What the Experts Suggest!    
• Secondary to Postsecondary Articulation Initiatives: Creating, Enhancing and Strengthening Partnerships           
• Strategies for effective behavior management in career and technical education classes  
• Summer Programs for Learning and Earning Simultaneously: Tech Prep Summer Scholars and Summer Jobs for Youth
• Tech Prep: Sharing What Works          
• The Louisiana ePortal Initiative: Perfecting Pathways for Successful Transitions
• The Secret to Global Competitiveness: Educating Economically Disadvantaged Youth
• What Every CTE Instructor and Administrator Needs to Know About the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

Guidance and Career Development Division Program Sessions

• Partnering with Your Board of Education to Increase Work-Based Learning Sites
• Counselor Mentoring: A Collaborative Investment       
• Counselors, Career Motivation, and School Improvement        
• Create the Future:  Middle School Choices      
• Electronic Career Pathways Performed another Way: Assessments, Pathways, and Data Collection      
• Fully Implemented Guidance Programs Contribute to Student Success: The Missouri Story       
• MYLIFE: A Cost of Living Activity for Young People  
• Online Individual Learning Plans: Kentucky’s Experience          
• Real Life 101: Hit Them One More Time Before “IT” Hits Them!         
• Reel Life Career Development
• Teachers As Advisors: The South Dakota Model         
• The Power of Pathways: Using Career Clusters and Career Pathways in High School Reform   
• Using Career Resources to Support Perkins Accountability
• Work Ethic in the Twenty-first Century: A Ten Year

Health Science Technology Education Division Program Sessions

• Incorporation of Community Involvement into the Secondary Allied Health II Curriculum through Local Patient and Project Assignments      
• Busting out of the Box  
• Effective Learning Management            
• English Language Learners- Promoting Success            
• Handling Classroom Conflict With Out Using a Cattle Prod
• High Flying Careers: Follow Your Dreams       
• Managing the WEB: Workforce, Education and Business
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
• Protocols & Partnerships in the Classroom-Nontraditional Instructional Strategies for Health Science Education:           
• Staying Cutting Edge in an Ever Changing Field: Health Sciences Technology    
• Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3            
• The Bridge: Creating Partnerships with Elementary Schools      
• The Nurse of Tomorrow: Eighteen and Energetic          
• The Wellness Project-An interactive project for Health Occupation Students    
• Work Ethics: What Business and Industry Really Want

Marketing Education Division Program Sessions

• Creating High Rollers: The Entrepreneurial Win
• Doing Business in America
• Hands-on: Making Marketing Research Real for HS Students
• Hospitality Education and DECA
• Industry-based Certification for Business and Marketing
• Make JA Worldwide Work for You
• Marketing CTE: A Strategic Approach
• Marketing Your Program: Building Positive PR
• New Business Administration Standards: Finance, Management/Administration, and Marketing
• Opening Session: Putting CTE in its Place
• Our Changing World: Repositioning Business and Marketing Education           
• Power Share: Three Minutes and a Handout
• Put Math in Context: Integrating Math Concepts in Business Curricula
• The Dynamic Program Gets the Student!
• Using Academics to Build a Better Program
• Using the Business Community to Develop Classroom Instruction

New and Related Services Division Program Sessions

• Reading for All Students
• A CTE/Academic Integration Partnership Project Works! 
• A Resume Alone Won't Get You the Job You Want! 
• Academic Tech Prep a Business Partnership That Works  
• Climbing the Ladder to Gender Equity and Nontraditional Careers  
• Curriculum Development Roundtable  
• Fourth Annual Report on State Priorities in CTE Professional Development  
• Guiding Career Pathway Programs through Self Assessment
• High School 101 -21st Century Skills for 21st Century Students  
• Linking CTE and Academic Education through Instruction, Curriculum and Assessment  
• Online Professional Development for Educators  
• Preparing Better Teachers for Tomorrow (PBTT)  
• Strategies for Dealing with Negative Criticism for Training Professionals  
• Tales from a CTE Focused Middle College
• Teaching Teachers to Write Curriculum Using Only the Experiential Learning Process: An Amazing Case Study  
• Tech Prep Career Pathways and Career Coaching Programs
• Technical Dual Credit/Enrollment: A Plan for How Students Can Have it All and at NO Cost for Parents  
• Technology to Go!  
• Using Instructional Systems Design (ISD) to Create Effective Customized Business and Industry Training  
• Women’s Education Issues in Kabul, Afghanistan: Building CTE Skills   

Special Needs Division Program Sessions

• Career Assessment—Defining Positive Skills for the Transition from School to Work     
• Excellence at EHOVE
• Providing Blind Students with 21st Century Math Skills
• Special Populations in Career Clusters
• Teaching Individuals with Low Incident Disabilities
• Transition Assessment – Embracing the Differences in Special Education Students for Positive Post-Secondary Outcomes

Teacher Educator Program Sessions

• Which Credential Route to Go? Perceptions of FCS Interns and Traditional Student Teachers
• Are they Being Retained? An Analysis of the Oklahoma Career Tech New Teacher Induction Process on Cumulative New Teacher Retention
• Are We Ready for Online Doctorates?
• Beyond Resumes and Cover Letters, Technical Writing in the Classroom
• Business Ownership in School: A Value-Added Supplement to the Reinvented High School
• CTE and Academic Integration That Fosters Metacognitive Connections
• Developing Career-Technical Teachers Online
• From Alternative Licensure to the Ph.D.: A Strategy for Developing Quality CTE Teachers
• Gang Awareness for Educators
• Leadership and Teambuilding through CTE and CTSO Programs
• Necessary Changes = Learning Benefits: Actions Yield Performance Success in an Urban Career and Technical School
• Redefining the Roles for 21st Century Career and Technical Education Teachers
• Relationships: A Necessity for Student Engagement in Online Environments
• Student Learning 24/7 - Lessons Learned
• Teaching Ideas 101: 101 Ways to Improve your Teaching!

Trade and Industrial Division Program Sessions

• A House of Cards: Tech Centers and High Schools      
• ASE/NATEF Program Certification Update     
• Automotive Technology Program Certification: It isn't as Difficult as you may think!       
• CareerSafe Online OSHA Training      
• Changing Attitudes about Manufacturing: The New Product Development Initiative       
• Creating and Operating a Successful Junior ROTC Workforce Development Program  
• Critical Workplace Basic Employability Skills: The Skills Employers Want!
• How well are you Preparing your Students?     
• CTE Program Assessment: Providing Accountability for Kentucky        
• Industry-Based Skills Certification        
• Integrating Curriculum with Varied Assessments           
• Is PrintED Accreditation Right for You?           
• Lesson Planning: A Construction Company Perspective            
• Life After Graduation: Make It Real, Make It Pay, Make It Happen!    
• Mentoring in a Context Specific Environment    
• NATEF Evaluation Team Leader Training        
• SkillsUSA Programs Beef Up Your Chapter
• The How and Why of Automotive Training Online

Career Academies

ACTE, in partnership with the National Academy Foundation, is developing a strand of sessions that will address career academies. These sessions will be listed as soon as they are available.

Project Lead the Way

ACTE is proud to provide educational content that will be provided by Project Lead The Way and High Schools That Work. These sessions will be listed as soon as they are available.