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

The following sessions have been accepted for the 2007 ACTE Convention in Las Vegas, December 13-15. The sessions listed have been designated by the presenters as most appropriate for secondary school educators. ACTE will be making full session descriptions available in the fall.

Updated as of June 14, 2007

• Which Credential Route to Go? Perceptions of FCS Interns and Traditional Student Teachers  
• Safe Schools: Developing & Maintaining an Effective Crisis Plan
• 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 Advisory Committees: Engaging Partners  
• Busting out of the Box  
• C.O.W. Day - Career Exploration on the Mooove!  
• 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
• Developing Career-Technical Teachers Online  
• Effective Learning Management  
• Focus on Assets - A Positive Approach to Assessment, Evaluation, Group Process, and Problem Solving for Career and Technical Educators  
• From Alternative Licensure to the Ph.D.: A Strategy for Developing Quality CTE Teachers  
• Gang Awareness for Educators  
• Increase Your Enrollment by Using Innovative Delivery of Classes  
• Managing the WEB - Workforce, Education and Business  
• Mentoring in a Context Specific Environment  
• Motivational Tools for Noncharismatic Leaders  
• Moving Forward with Student Retention  
• Podcasting: a New Generation of Teaching and Learning  
• Preparing Better Teachers for Tomorrow (PBTT)  
• Providing Innovative Workforce Development Programming while Keeping Up with a Global Economy  
• Relationships: A Necessity for Student Engagement in Online Environments  
• Research Topics in CTE: What the Experts Suggest!  
• Revision of the Service-Learning Component in an Undergraduate Family and Consumer Sciences Adolescent Development Course  
• Revolutionizing the Strategic Management Process for Effective Leadership and Team Development for Career Focused Organizations  
• School Business Partnerships: Making It Work!  
• School Financing: Same Problem, Different Solution
• Strengthening Partnerships
• Strategies for Dealing with Negative Criticism for Training Professionals  
• Student Engineering Design Programs to Create Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities  
• Technology to Go!  
• Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3  
• The Career Readiness Certificate-- Exciting Growth and Evolution  
• The Effect of Personal Experience on Adult Professional Learning in the Field of Continuous Education of Finance in Taiwan  
• The Power of an e-Portfolio  
• Training for Diverse Generations  
• Using Instructional Systems Design (ISD) to Create Effective Customized Business and Industry Training  
• Vodcasting Essentials: You Building the Video  
• What Every CTE Instructor and Administrator Needs to Know About the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)  
• Women’s Education Issues in Kabul, Afghanistan: Building CTE Skills