 | A State of Growth
In Georgia, there are some schools in the technical college system that have experienced a lot of growth, and others that appear ready to follow.
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| 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.
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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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| Advocates Take Message to Capitol Hill 
At the ACTE 2007 National Policy Seminar, educators became better prepared advocates for 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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| Are the Stakes Too High?
There has to be a way to measure student success, but are high-stakes tests the best way?
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| Be Bold ... Be Enrollment Rich
Marketing specialist Mark Perna offers more advice on how career and technical schools can market themselves and their programs.
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| Building 21st Century Schools
CTE programs for the 21st century require suitably high-tech facilities.
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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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| Building Relationships with Local Media (All Access)
ACTE’s media relations manager, Sabrina Kidwai, discusses how to build fruitful relationships with the media.
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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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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Career and Technical Education Works for Rural Communities
A strong career and technical education system, such as the one in Oklahoma, may be key to preserving our rural communities.
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| Career Clusters…At Home in State and Schools
Work on development of career clusters continues under the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium.
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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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| 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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| 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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| Effective School Leadership
School leadership must be strong, effective and sustainable, which means it should be a cooperative effort and not just the job of a single individual.
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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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| Exploring the World through Job Shadowing (All Access)
On Groundhog Day—and throughout the year—job shadowing givesstudents the opportunity to explore the real-world workplace.
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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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| Is Smaller Better?
Many educators today support the idea that a smaller learning environment is better for students.
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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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| 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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| 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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| Making the Case for Tech Prep
The evidence is starting to come in, and it makes a strong case for tech prep.
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| Marketing ... We Don’t Need No Stinking Marketing!
A marketing professional offers advice on how to successfully market your school and its programs.
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| Meeting the Challenges of Urban Education
In cities across the nation, career and technical education is helping schools meet the needs of their students.
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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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| Moving on Up
There are a number of technical schools and community colleges across the country that are reporting tremendous growth.
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| 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.
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| Never Stop Growing
Career and technical educators participate in professional development activities that help them continue to grow and ensure the best education for their students.
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| No Rain, No Gain
In this month’s installment of his series on marketing career and technical schools and their programs, Mark Perna explains the “Rain Effect” of successful marketing.
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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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| Not Just New–Newly Reborn
A new school can mean more than simply a newer facility; it can mean a rebirth into an even better program, such as the one at the Clyde C. Miller Career Academy in St. Louis.
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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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| Oracle Academy: Four Success Stories Model the Competitive Edge of CTE
The Oracle Academy is a model business/education partnership for CTE, and Oracle Academy Director Thomas Kadelbach will be among those addressing attendees at this year's ACTE convention.
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| Partners in Community Service
At Vermont’s Stafford Technical Center, community service is part of “The Stafford Way.”
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| 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.
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| Perkins Funding Again Threatened in Bush Budget
Overview of February 2004 Bush Administration's FY 2005 budget proposal for career tech.
Summary of ACTE's Perkins reauthorization recommendations.
Proposed Funding Cuts for CTE- The Potential Impact on Your State.
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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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| 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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| Race Issues in Career and Technical Education: A Snapshot in Black and White
Commentary and recommendations on the issue of low participation of African Americans in career tech education.
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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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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Standing Still in a Time of Change
Getting career and technical education started on the path toward beneficial changes.
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| 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.
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| Target-Rich Environment
Marketing expert Mark Perna offers advice on cultivating a target-rich environment to increase enrollment.
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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 Enrollment Funnel
Marketing expert Mark Perna returns this month with advice on how to funnel more students into your programs.
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| The Greatest Love of All…Advising America’s Future Business Leaders
Phi Beta Lambda National President Brian Ferrell offers a student's viewpoint on membership in a career and technical student organization.
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| The Highly Qualified Teacher under NCLB
There are resources available to help clear up some of the confusion about the highly qualified teacher requirements under the No Child Left Behind Act.
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| The New Career and Technical School
Michigan's new Romeo Engineering & Technology Center is an example of a 21st century career tech school that offers a complete education by bringing together academics and career skills.
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| The New, the Newly Reborn and the Growing (All Access)
Career and technical education has a role to play in meeting the needs of our growing school population.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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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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| Working Models: Why Mentoring Programs May be the Key to Teacher Retention
By now, most everyone in education has heard the staggering statistic from the U.S. Department of Education: An estimated two million new teachers will need to be hired over the next 10 years.
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| Workshops That Work
Workshops can help teachers learn how to start integrating academics into their career tech curriculum. |
