 | 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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| Building 21st Century Schools
CTE programs for the 21st century require suitably high-tech facilities.
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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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| 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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| 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 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 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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| 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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| 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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| Get Ready, Get Set, Get to Work!
The manager for career services with the Home Builders Institute advises students to bring their soft skills along with their hard hats when they enter the construction field.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Oklahoma’s Mid-Del Tech Center Meets the Electric Vehicle Training Challenge
How an Oklahoma technology center answered the call for a specialized training program that contributes to clean air and enhances the state's economic development.
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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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| Process Versus Product
In career and technical education, sometimes the learning process is just as important as the product created.
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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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| 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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| 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 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 Growth of Health Career Camps
The Growth of Health Career Camps
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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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| 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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| 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. |
