 | 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 New Teacher's First Year
A new CTE teacher shares the story of her first year of teaching
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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 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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| Basic Utility Vehicle Design Competition
The Institute for Affordable Transportation is engaging secondary and postsecondary students in its efforts to build a car for humanity.
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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 21st Century Schools
CTE programs for the 21st century require suitably high-tech facilities.
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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 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 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 and Technical Student Organizations Building Our Future
CTSO students today are preparing to become outstanding citizens of tomorrow.
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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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| 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: Culinary Arts — Education for a Taste of Success
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Lehigh Career and Technical Institute
Johnson & Wales University
A Passport to Success
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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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| Celebrating a Strong Family
This year’s FCCLA National Meeting was a celebration of the family as well as a celebration of the career and technical student organization’s 60th anniversary.
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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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| 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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| Conducting a Social Network Audit
Two experts in social networking offer advice for educators on how they can teach it to their students to help them reach their career goals.
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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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| Court Reporting: A Career with Choices
Three court reporters share information on the training and opportunities in their field.
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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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| Developing Careers (All Access)
The DECA International Career Development Conference highlights the skills and achievements of marketing students from across the nation.
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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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| Elements of an Effective Mentoring Program
Building an effective mentoring program begins with a good design.
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| Fashioning a Successful Career
An education in fashion design is an education in style.
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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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| Framework for Learning Design
There are benefits to a good performance-based model.
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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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| Getting Down to Business
Business education is an ever-changing field, but it maintains its role in creating young entrepreneurs.
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| Helping Your Students Manage Their Time
It is one of the most important soft skills you can teach your students.
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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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| 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.
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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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| 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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| 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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| Like No Business We Know...
Innovative CTE programs across the country are preparing technicians for work in the entertainment industry.
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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 a Great First Impression
Appearance, attitude and actions are things you can teach your students to help them make a great first impression.
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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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| Mentoring New Teachers
An Ohio career center built its teacher mentoring program from the inside out.
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| Motorcycle Diaries
An instructor at Minnesota's South Central College turned his love of motorcycles into a way to save the school's Computer Integrated Machining program.
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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 Careers in Construction Week (All Access)
NCCER is dedicating the week of October 17-21 as the first annual National Careers in Construction Week.
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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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| 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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| Occupational Therapy—Real Help for Real Life
A growing need for professionals in the field of occupational therapy means a growing need for career and technical education programs to train them.
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| Organize for More Time
A business education teacher offers some organizational solutions to help teachers better manage their classrooms and their time.
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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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| Physical Therapy—Hands-on Education, Hands-on Healing
Career and technical education is preparing professionals to help improve the quality of life for both the young and old.
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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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| 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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| Soft Skills: The New Curriculum for Hard-Core Technical Professionals (All Access)
By teaching soft skills as well as technical skills, career and technical educators will better prepare their students for success in a technical career.
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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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| Student Portfolios 101
This follow up to our May portfolio stories provides more helpful information for teachers and their students.
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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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| 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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| 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 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 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 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 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 Hidden Profession of Histotechnology
Although not very well known, the field of histotechnology is growing in need and in opportunities.
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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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| The Secret of Classroom Management
Two experienced career tech educators share advice on creating a well-managed classroom.
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| 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.
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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 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.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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. |
