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

• Incorporation of Community Involvement into the Secondary Allied Health II Curriculum through Local Patient and Project Assignments  
• "Skills on Wheels" Connecting Education and Careers
• What Are Non-traditional Careers and Why Should My Career Center Care? 
• Partnering with Your Board of Education to Increase Work-Based Learning Sites 
• 9th Grade Academy: Transitioning Students from Middle to High School  
• A CTE/Academic Integration Partnership Project Works!
• A Guide to Collaborative Teaching and Assessment of Integrated Math and Science to Facilitate Awarding Core Academic Credit in CTE Programs  
• A House of Cards: Tech Centers and High Schools  
• A Resume Alone Won't Get You the Job You Want!  
• Academic Tech Prep a Business Partnership That Works  
• AchieveTexas  
• Activating Student Potential with Baldrige  
• Active Learning in the Family and Consumer Sciences Classroom  
• Are Your PowerPoint’s working: Or do They Just Look Pretty?  
• Articulations and Scholarship Opportunities 
• ASE/NATEF Program Certification Update  Darrell Parks
• Assessing Your Instruction to Meet State Standards  
• Automotive Technology Program Certification: It isn't as difficult as you may think!  
• Become a National Blue Ribbon Lighthouse School: First Steps
• Beyond Resumes and Cover Letters, Technical Writing in the Classroom  
• BT5—Business Technology On-line Curriculum Guide: 2006 & Beyond  
• Building Pathways to College and Careers  
• Business Ownership in School: A Value-Added Supplement to the Reinvented High School  
• Business Related Course Requirements for Graduation in U.S. High Schools  
• Can You Name an Industry Without Entrepreneurs?  
• Career Assessment—Defining Positive Skills for the Transition from School to Work  
• Career Interventions - An ACRN Career Research Grant  
• Career Maturity of General Education Development (GED) Students  
• CareerSafe Online OSHA Training
• Changing Attitudes about Manufacturing: The New Product Development Initiative  
• Chocolate Soup for the CTE Soul  
• Climbing the Ladder to Gender Equity and Nontraditional Careers  
• Combining Rigor and Relevance: CTE Curriculum Mapping Using ACT College Readiness Standards and HEAR
• Connecting Community, Careers, and College  
• Conquering Change in the Workplace - We're Not in Kansas Anymore!  
• Counselors, Career Motivation, and School Improvement
• Creating a 20/20 Vision for Educating Students  
• Creating and Operating a Successful Junior ROTC Workforce Development Program  
• Creating Innovative Videos with Movie Maker 2.0  
• Critical Workplace Basic Employability Skills: The Skills Employers Want! How well are you preparing your Students?  
• CSI-Classroom Success Investigation: Identifying the Secrets of Student Success  
• CTE - High Definition Education: A Marketing Dilemma  
• CTE and Academic Integration That Fosters Metacognitive Connections  
• CTE Program Assessment: Providing Accountability for Kentucky  
• Culinary Arts Foundations-A New Pathway to Culinary Arts Careers  
• Curriculum Development Roundtable  
• Data Driven Teacher Conferences  
• Designing Secondary Architecture Curriculum  
• Developing a Student Exchange Program with China  
• Developing an Instrument for Assessment in Drafting Technology  
• Digital Tools and Blogging in Education: Basic Skills Every Educator Needs to Master these New Tools for use in the Classroom  
• Electronic Career Pathways Performed another Way: Assessments, Pathways, and Data Collection  
• Engaging Students with World Class Manufacturing  
• Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and YOU!  
• Everyone Loves a Good Story  
• Evolving Values and Principles for Career and Technical Education
• Excellence at EHOVE  
• Explicit Literacy Instruction in the Career and Technical Education Classroom  
• F1 in Schools Technology Challenge  
• FCS Programs—Tools to Support Your Programs  
• FCSEA Executive Board Meeting  
• FCSEA Monographs 2007  
• Female Recruitment - Cheering in the Classroom  
• Financial Literacy for Teens....Learn Now or Pay Later!  
• Fourth Annual Report on State Priorities in CTE Professional Development  
• Fully Implemented Guidance Programs Contribute to Student Success: The Missouri Story  
• Guiding Career Pathway Programs through Self Assessment  
• Handling Classroom Conflict With Out Using a Cattle Prod  
• High Flying Careers: Follow Your Dreams  
• High School 101 - 21st Century Skills for 21st Century Students  
• How much do Things Really Cost? Teaching using Real Life Finance Simulations  
• How to Be Enrollment and Retention Rich!
• How to Create Change & Live To Tell About It - A Simple, Proven Formula  
• Implementing Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) Career Clusters: Opportunities and Challenges  
• Incorporating Leadership and Teambuilding in your Classroom  
• Induction Program Considerations for CTE Teachers  
• Industry-based Skills Certification  
• Integrating Curriculum with Varied Assessments  
• Integrating Reading Strategies into the CTE Classroom  
• Integrating Your CTSO into the Curriculum  
• Integrating Special Need Students into Technology Education Classrooms  
• Is PrintED Accreditation Right for You?  
• Leadership and Teambuilding through CTE and CTSO programs  
• Leading the Career-Technical Education Enterprise: Which way?
• Learning Theory Applications in FCS High School Classrooms  
  Lesson Planning: A Construction Company Perspective
• Life After Graduation: Make It Real, Make It Pay, And Make It Happen!
• Linking CTE and Academic Education through Instruction, Curriculum and Assessment  
• Making the Grade: Assessment of FCS Teachers' Understanding and Program Implementation Regarding the National Standards for Teachers of FCS  
• Manufacturing Biotechnology: Let's Be Real  
• Marketing your CTE Program  
• Meeting the High School Mathematics Requirements-Implementing Algebra II within Career Technical Education  
• Missouri's Career Education Mentoring Program  
• MYLIFE: A Cost of Living Activity for Young People  
• NATEF Evaluation Team Leader Training  
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards  
• Necessary Changes = Learning Benefits: Actions Yield Performance Success in an Urban Career and Technical School  
• No Heart Left Behind  
• No Teacher Left Behind: Reframing CTE Professional Development  
• Obtaining Information through Basic Research  
• Online Individual Learning Plans: Kentucky’s Experience  
• Online Professional Development for Educators  
• Partnering Patterns for Progress  
• Preserving and Expanding Career and Technical Programs in a Shrinking School  
• Problem-Based Entrepreneurship Learning  
• Programming with Alice to Increase Interest in Computer Science Careers for High School Students  
• Protocols & Partnerships in the Classroom-Nontraditional Instructional Strategies for Health Science Education  
• Providing Blind Students with 21st Century Math Skills  
• Real Life 101: Hit Them One More Time Before “IT” Hits Them!  
• Recruit and Retain the BEST Staff in Your School!  
• Recruiting Middle and High School Engineering/Technology Teachers  
• Redefining the Roles for 21st Century Career and Technical Education Teachers  
• Reel Life Career Development  
• Risky Business: What Every Student Needs to Know About Personal Finance  
• Robotic Competition Programs to Complement Technology Education  
• School and Classroom/Lab Safety and Health-- Student and Young Worker NIOSH Safety Update  
• SkillsUSA Programs Beef Up Your Chapter  
• Special Populations in Career Clusters  
• Starting a Competitive Robotics Team: Epiphany or Insanity  
• Statewide Professional Development Model  
• Staying Cutting Edge in an Ever Changing Field: Health Sciences Technology  
• Strategies for Effective Behavior Management in Career and Technical Education Classes  
• Student Learning 24/7: Lessons Learned  
• Summer Programs for Learning and Earning Simultaneously: Tech Prep Summer Scholars and Summer Jobs for Youth  
• Tales from a CTE Focused Middle College  
• Teachers as Advisors: The South Dakota Model  
• Teaching Ideas 101: 101 Ways to Improve your Teaching!  
• Teaching Individuals with Low Incident Disabilities  
• Teaching Strategies to Build a Career Technical Business Program  
• Teaching Teachers to Write Curriculum Using Only the Experiential Learning Process: An Amazing Case Study  
• Teaching to Industry Based Skill Certificates in the High School Classroom: Is it Worth the Effort?  
• Tech Prep Career Pathways and Career Coaching Programs  
• Tech Prep: Sharing What Works  
• Technical Dual Credit/Enrollment: A Plan for How Students Can Have it All and at NO Cost for Parents  
• Teens and Social Networking Sites: What is the Attraction?  
• Test Writing Tips and Online Rubrics  
• The FIRST Solution: Robotics Activities Point the Way to Career Success  
• The How and Why of Automotive Training Online  Paul Fraser  
• The Louisiana ePortal Initiative: Perfecting Pathways for Successful Transitions  
• The Nurse of Tomorrow - Eighteen and Energetic  
• The Power of Pathways: Using Career Clusters and Career Pathways in High School Reform  
• The Relationship with ACTE High Schools and Transitioning from an Industrial Technology to and Engineering Technology Baccalaureate Program  
• The Roles of Student Organization Players in the Public Policy Arena!  
• The Secret to Global Competitiveness: Educating Economically Disadvantaged Youth  
• The Taxman Cometh: Running a High School Tax Center  
• The Wellness Project: An Interactive Project for Health Occupation Students  
• Transition Assessment – Embracing the Differences in Special Education Students for Positive Post-Secondary Outcomes
• Using Career Resources to Support Perkins Accountability  Bridget Brown  
• Why do I Need to Know Math? Strategies for Improving Math Skills through CTE  
• Work and School Readiness: The Role of Appearance Management  
• Work Ethic in the Twenty-first Century: A Ten Year Comparison  
• Work Ethics: What Business and Industry Really Want  
• Writing Strategies in Career and Technical Education Courses