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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.
	A Role to Play in School Reform CTE is playing a role in helping students meet the state standards for achievement in Chesapeake, VA.
	Adult Workforce Education is Reaching out to Displaced Workers (All Access) In Lima, Ohio, the Apollo Career Center meets the retraining needs of the community’s displaced workers.
	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.
	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
	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.
	Are the Stakes Too High? There has to be a way to measure student success, but are high-stakes tests the best way?
	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.
	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.
	Bright Ideas for Dark Days With winter on the doorstep, Dauna Easley shares some tips on brightening those dark days.
	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.
	Building Futures Together (All Access) In Palm Beach County, Florida, career academies are providing students with choices and great opportunities.
	Building Relationships with Local Media (All Access) ACTE’s media relations manager, Sabrina Kidwai, discusses how to build fruitful relationships with the media.
	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.
	Career Academies: Cutting-Edge Reform or Passing Fad? An innovative approach to education reform begun more than 30 years ago, the career academy concept has continued to grow.
	Career and Technical Education at Tribal Colleges Native American students are benefiting from career and technical education, but at tribal colleges, there are some unique aspects to the programs.
	Career and Technical Education is Real. And Real Important. The fact that school leaders promulgate the myth and tell parents that all students will complete a college education is wrong, and it is a lie.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Elements of an Effective Mentoring Program Building an effective mentoring program begins with a good design.
	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.
	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.
	Framework for Learning Design There are benefits to a good performance-based model.
	Helping Our Students Believe in Themselves
	Helping Your Students Manage Their Time It is one of the most important soft skills you can teach your students.
	Hidden Gems Many valuable internship and experiential learning programs go undocumented. Here are some excellent examples from Pennsylvania.
	How to Make Their Dreams Come True (All Access) Dauna Easley outlines her dream formula to help teachers and their students realize their dreams.
	Improving Math Skills in CTE: How You Can Help National Research Center for CTE director James Stone tells of a national study soon to begin.
	Integrating Occupational and Academic Skills Across the Curriculum Curriculum integration is helping students make connections between academics and technical skills.
	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.
	Is Smaller Better? Many educators today support the idea that a smaller learning environment is better for students.
	Is That Clock Broken? Making the most of an uninspiring professional development activity takes a little effort, but it can be done.
	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.
	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.
	Meeting the Challenges of Urban Education In cities across the nation, career and technical education is helping schools meet the needs of their students.
	Mentoring New Teachers An Ohio career center built its teacher mentoring program from the inside out.
	National Academy Foundation at the forefront of high school reform The National Academy Foundation under its president, John Ferrandino, is a leader in the career academy approach to smaller learning communities.
	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.
	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.
	Organize for More Time A business education teacher offers some organizational solutions to help teachers better manage their classrooms and their time.
	Partnerships Designed to Meet Customer Needs With community support, a good design team and a goal to improve students’ outcomes, school systems are improving their facilities to meet the demands of the 21st century workplace.
	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.
	Redefining CTE: Seizing a Unique Opportunity to Help the "Neglected Majority" Become World-Class Students, Workers and Citizens U.S. public education is caught up in a tug of war between the need for globally competitive workers and the demand for higher academic achievement.
	Retraining Displaced Workers (All Access) Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton, Ohio, provides a source of hope and opportunity for the area’s displaced workers.
	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.
	Standing Still in a Time of Change Getting career and technical education started on the path toward beneficial changes.
	Student Career Planning Conferences in Tulsa Middle and High Schools Help Students and Parents Individualized Career Planning conferences at both the middle and high school levels are a catalyst for students to consider how academic interests and their other special talents can be directed into career choices.
	Student Portfolios 101 This follow up to our May portfolio stories provides more helpful information for teachers and their students.
	Student Portfolios: Documenting Success A portfolio documents a student’s educational progress and can help in obtaining a good job following graduation.
	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.
	Sustaining a School-to-Career Initiative School-to-career programs offer benefits for the entire community, so community involvement can play an important role in keeping them going.
	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.
	The CORE Connection CTE and the academic subjects that make up the core curriculum can work together to improve student learning.
	The Next Generation of Technicians Prepare for Their Future The East Valley Institute of Technology’s automotive program works with AYES to prepare highly skilled auto technicians.
	Tips for Taming Time (All Access) Author and former teacher Sandy LaBelle returns this month with ideas to help teachers tame their time-management problems.
	Today's Construction Academies Recognizing that today's construction academies are building tomorrow's careers, the Associated General Contractors is using grant money from the U.S. Department of Labor to help establish new Construction Career Academies.
	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.
	Using Contextual Instruction to make Abstract Learning Concrete The value of contextual instruction has been demonstrated in career and technical education classrooms where it is used.
	Water, Water, Everywhere yet Do I Dare Drink? A career academy in Florida presents an example of excellence in interdisciplinary education.
	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.
	Workshops That Work Workshops can help teachers learn how to start integrating academics into their career tech curriculum.
	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.