 | 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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| 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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| Broadcasting a Middle School Success Story
A Massachusetts middle school's TV technology program has become an on-air success.
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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 a Future for Future Builders
Chicago’s ACE Tech High School is helping attract young people to careers in the building trades.
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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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| 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 Focus Auto
A four-part special "Career Focus" supplement about today's automotive service technician careers.
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| Career Focus: CAD/CAM
Career and technical education students are training for a new dimension of design and manufacturing.
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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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| 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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| 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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| Elements of an Effective Mentoring Program
Building an effective mentoring program begins with a good design.
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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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| Getting Down to Business
Business education is an ever-changing field, but it maintains its role in creating young entrepreneurs.
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| Hidden Gems
Many valuable internship and experiential learning programs go undocumented. Here are some excellent examples from Pennsylvania.
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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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| 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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| 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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| Knowing Our Place in the Community
Career and technical education programs often have special connections with the places where they are based.
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| Localization: A Career for the New Millennium
The award-winning Localization Generalist Certificate Program at Austin Community College is the first of its kind at a community college.
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| Mentoring New Teachers
An Ohio career center built its teacher mentoring program from the inside out.
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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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| Physics in the Real World...Teaching Outside the Textbook
A teacher's perspective on principles of technology
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| Preparing a Facilities Master Plan
The second in the series of articles from architectural and engineering firm Burgess & Niple shares the steps to take in creating a facilities master plan.
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| Process Versus Product
In career and technical education, sometimes the learning process is just as important as the product created.
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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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| 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.
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| Students, Start Your Engines
the Y.E.S. program uses drag racing to inspire students to explore their career options.
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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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| Supervising Sparkling Students
By building relationships with the college students she supervises in a cooperative education teaching program, a career and technical educator is learning to see her students' gifts and the gifts they will be able to bring to their own students in the future.
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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 Brave New World of Biotechnology
Biotechnology is being applied in fields such as agriculture, medicine and manufacturing, and career and technical education is often where students are being introduced to this new world.
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| The Bristol Tech Prep Consortium’s Women in Technology Program
The Tech Prep Consortium at Bristol Community College is at the forefront of collaborative education initiatives with its development and implementation of the Women in Technology (WIT) Project-Based Learning Program in High Tech Manufacturing.
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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 Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Fluor Fernald Partnership
In Greater Cincinnati, a company’s partnership with career and technical education helps prepare its workers for new careers as their current jobs are phased out.
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| The Hidden Profession of Histotechnology
Although not very well known, the field of histotechnology is growing in need and in opportunities.
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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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| Vital Virtual Hands-On Learning
How a CTE instructor is working in partnership with the physics instructor to bring scientific principles to life for students.
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| Warehouse Worriors Take on Industrial Educators
CTE came out a winner when students from industrial education programs at two universities battled it out on a cable television network.
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| Water, Water, Everywhere yet Do I Dare Drink?
A career academy in Florida presents an example of excellence in interdisciplinary education.
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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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| Wiring Student Certifications to Industry Careers
A Networked classroom wired by students has been a hit at education trade shows, including the ACTE Annual Convention and Career Tech Expo.
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| Women and Minorities in Agriculture
Agriculture is a field in which any student may find success.
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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. |
