By Janet B. Bray
ACTE Executive Director

ACTE's Strategic Plan

As the old expression goes, ?If you don?t know where you?re going, any road will get you there.? To move forward successfully, ACTE must have a vision of where it wants to go. It must define who it is, who it serves and what its destination is. While this is easy to say and write, the process of creating a vision and a roadmap for achieving that vision takes time, hard work and much discussion.

In December 2001 the ACTE Board of Directors embarked on a strategic planning process that would create a roadmap that will enable them to enhance their influential leadership position in the career and technical education profession and to efficiently and effectively serve its members. With the assistance of an expert facilitator, the Board employed a comprehensive process that included member focus groups, member surveys and several Board retreats.

The result of this year-long effort is a Strategic Plan that will guide the association into the future. The plan will be tied directly into the annual budget and program of work and will be reviewed regularly by the Board. The plan will serve as an umbrella for the ACTE Regions and Divisions of ACTE and bring the entire profession together so that our resources are efficiently utilized.

The ACTE Strategic Plan is a living document. Just as the world around us does not stand still, so too must this plan evolve as challenges and opportunities are placed before the association and the CTE profession. The value of the Strategic Plan is that it provides the framework for the ACTE leadership to anticipate and respond to events, trends and new ideas.

The ACTE Strategic Plan is a three-year plan that will be annually reassessed, updated and fine tuned. The plan is the roadmap to our future. The ACTE Strategic Plan presented on this page is a top-level outline of the complete plan. For each of the seven Strategic Goals listed on this page the plan specifies broad objectives and numerous specific strategies to achieve the goals. The complete ACTE Strategic Plan is available on the ACTE Web site.

I urge all ACTE members to become familiar with the plan and I encourage you to contact the ACTE Board or me with your comments and suggestions as we move forward toward our destination.