 | A Laboratory Classroom Where "Wining" is Encouraged
As California's wine industry continues to grow, the College of Agriculture at Cal Poly Tech in San Luis Obispo is Cultivating new prgrams to meet industry needs.
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| A Quiet Success. Career and Technical Education for Deaf Students
Deaf and hard-of-hearing students face certain challenges in the classroom, but when educators understand those challenges, they can find ways to help overcome them.
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| A Role to Play in School Reform
CTE is playing a role in helping students meet the state standards for achievement in Chesapeake, VA.
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| A Unique Experience in Marketing Education
High school students get a real-world experience that also benefits a business in their community.
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| Advancing the concept of technology Education
The Advanced Technology Center in Virginia beach City represents a new concept in career and technical education.
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| Amazed and Renewed (All Access)
Professional development is a great way to keep learning and growing, but it can also mean a renewal of energy and enthusiasm for teaching.
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| An Education in Diversity (All Access) 
but they all share the need for an education that will prepare them for the future workplace., The changing face of the American classroom reflects many races and cultures
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| An IT Mentoring Program
In Washington, D.C., a career center is pairing students with mentors to help those students succeed in today’s information technology workplace.
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| Auburn Career Center: A Model for Interdisciplinary & Team Teaching
At schools such as Ohio’s Penta Career Center, academic teachers and career teachers are working as a team to increase student learning.
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| Body Language in the Classroom
Nonverbal communication is a powerful tool, so it is important for teachers and administrators to understand the messages they are sending and receiving.
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| Bright Ideas for Dark Days
With winter on the doorstep, Dauna Easley shares some tips on brightening those dark days.
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| Building a Culinary Arts Academy
An award-winning family and consumer sciences teacher built interest in her program by building a culinary arts academy at her school.
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| Building Futures Together (All Access)
In Palm Beach County, Florida, career academies are providing students with choices and great opportunities.
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| Business Alliances Improve Career Awareness
The Wake County Public School system works with local business leaders from the public and private sectors to give students relevant and realistic career experiences.
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| Businessman's Efforts Help Reinvent Valley Tech
In Upton, Massachusetts, one local businessman helped revive Valley Tech’s manufacturing technologies program.
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| Camels and Camshafts
How the University of Georgia is helping to improve career and technical education in a Persian Gulf neighbor of Iraq, the United Arab Emirates.
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| Career and Technical Education: The Building Blocks of Early Childhood Education
Career and technical education is preparing early childhood educators to help get young children off to a good start—both academically and socially.
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| Career Focus Auto
A four-part special "Career Focus" supplement about today's automotive service technician careers.
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| Career Focus: Dental Assisstants, technicians and Hygienists
CTE students are learning how to lend a hand for good dental health.
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| Career Focus: HVACR - A Field Where the Job Climate is Good
It’s a cool field where the job prospects are hot. That’s the message that a lot of trade associations and education organizations are trying to get out about heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR), and they have the statistics to back them up.
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| Celebrating 100 Years of Flight
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brother's historic achievement, we look at some of the aviation and aerospace technology education programs that will keep us flying high.
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| Centered on Teacher Training
A wide array of services and resources make up the formula for successful teacher training at the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Center for Technical Education.
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| Charge Up You Career
IBEW and the Quad Cities NECA chapter have partnered with an Illinois school district’s Minority Teacher Incentive Program to make students aware of career opportunities in the electrical field.
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| Community Support Gives Rise to New Penta Career Center
An old facility gets a new lease on life thanks to a vision and business and community support.
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| Contemporary Business Administration Curricula (All Access)
The president of MarkED/Career Paths explains how the national standards reflect a broad business context in today’s marketing and business education.
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| Creating Reality-Based Technology Training Through a Partnership of Contractors and a Community College
Creating Reality-Based Technology Training Through a Partnership of Contractors and a Community College
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| Do You Have a Strategy?
The first in a series of articles from architectural and engineering firm Burgess & Niple on how to improve environments for learning offers a perspective for administrators.
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| Educating Homeless Children
Career and technical education can give homeless children an education that will provide them with the job skills they need in order to find their own place in the world.
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| Educational Leadership: Rigor & Relevance
ACTE member John Gaal interviews Willard R. Daggett, president of the International Center for Leadership in Education, on roles and responsibilities in educational leadership.
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| Educators use career "Games" to Teach Lifelong Career Management Skills
Learn why The Real Game Series for career exploration is used across Canada and the U.S. in 25,000 classrooms.
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| Establishing a Clear System Goal of Career and College Readiness for All Students
The first article in a yearlong series focuses on the first recommendation in ACTE’s high school reform position statement.
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| Five Strategies to Develop Cultural Competence Among Allied health Occupations Students
Multiculturalism and exploring other cultures as an important part of health occupations education.
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| Food for Thought
A culinary arts program mixes the spices from the varied cultures of its students and helps create an atmosphere of multicultural understanding.
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| Gateway's Horizon A Center of Excellence
Gateway’s new Horizon Center for Transportation Technology was the product of collaboration with business and industry, community support and a federal grant.
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| Getting Down to Business
Business education is an ever-changing field, but it maintains its role in creating young entrepreneurs.
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| How to Make Their Dreams Come True (All Access)
Dauna Easley outlines her dream formula to help teachers and their students realize their dreams.
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| Improving reading proficiency through CTE
Reading skills may be improved by incorporating content literacy into the CTE classroom.
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| Integrating Occupational and Academic Skills Across the Curriculum
Curriculum integration is helping students make connections between academics and technical skills.
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| Interdisciplinary and Team Teaching: How Do We Make It Work?
At schools such as Ohio’s Penta Career Center, academic teachers and career teachers are working as a team to increase student learning.
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| Is That Clock Broken?
Making the most of an uninspiring professional development activity takes a little effort, but it can be done.
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| It’s Not Just in High School—Agriculture Education In Middle School (All Access)
Many career and technical educators and administrators are not waiting until high school to introduce students to agriculture.
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| Its Time Has Come for You and Your Schools
Project Lead The Way is attracting students to engineering and technology-based careers, and that is certainly an idea whose time has come.
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| Lights, Camera, "FFA in Action!"
Oklahoma's Comanche High School uses mass media to spread the word about FFA.
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| Like No Business We Know...
Innovative CTE programs across the country are preparing technicians for work in the entertainment industry.
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| Mentoring New Teachers
An Ohio career center built its teacher mentoring program from the inside out.
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| Move Beyond "Seat-Time" and Narrowly Defined Knowledge and Skills
The continuing series by ACTE’s Public Policy Department focuses on another one of the recommendations in ACTE’s high school reform position statement.
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| Not Just for CTE Teachers
At the Upper Rio Grande College Tech-Prep Youth Consortium, academic teachers are connecting education and careers through professional development.
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| Nursing Students Benefit from Video Technology
Recording live images in the Renton Technical College Nurses Learning Resource Center is enhancing the educational experience for students.
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| Putting it into Context
A University of Georgia study includes case studies of new teachers who applied contextual teaching and learning strategies in their classrooms.
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| Realize the Full Potential of Your New Facility (All Access)
The last in our series on how to improve environments for learning offers suggestions on managing and operating your new facility.
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| Sharing the Gift of Learning: How to get Your Students Hooked on Books
Dauna Easley shares some of the ways in which she gets her Teacher Academy students hooked on books.
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| Success Strategies for Teachers (And Students Too!)
As part of our back-to-school issue, Dauna Easley, author of Teachers Touch Eternity,
shares some of her classroom tips.
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| Teaching Life Skills for Student Success
A program in Chicago Public Schools is teaching students the skills they will need to transition from school into successful careers.
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| The Art of Mentoring (All Access)
Mentoring is an art that is being perfected in organizations such as the High Tech Girls Society and through partnerships such as the one between a health care system and a high school in Texas.
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| The Compass Crutch
Using sketching to bridge the gap between table and instrument drawing and computerized systems.
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| The CORE Connection
CTE and the academic subjects that make up the core curriculum can work together to improve student learning.
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| The Fiber Optics Connection
As the use of fiber optics grows, career and technical education programs are preparing technicians to meet workforce demand.
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| The Secret of Classroom Management
Two experienced career tech educators share advice on creating a well-managed classroom.
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| Unions, Contractors and CTE (All Access)
The Illinois Employer Advocacy Initiative has been successful in its efforts to promote positive relationships between career and technical education and unions and contractors.
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| Using Humor in the Classroom
Teachers use many tools in the classroom to ensure their students are learning and remembering what they learn. Humor is sometimes one of those tools.
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| Why go Robo?
Educators are using robotics to teach complex science, math and technology topics, and students are having fun learning.
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| Workforce Development in the Classroom
A middle school teacher in South Carolina is incorporating workforce development activities into her classroom curriculum.
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| Working the Math
Research Associate Donna Pearson with the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education reports on professional development in the organization’s Math-in-CTE project.
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| Workshops That Work
Workshops can help teachers learn how to start integrating academics into their career tech curriculum.
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| You’re Hired!
Finding inspiration through a professional development session he attended, a Great Oaks instructor uses “The Apprentice” to teach his sports marketing class. |
