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	A New Teacher's First Year A new CTE teacher shares the story of her first year of teaching
	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.
	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.
	A Unique Experience in Marketing Education High school students get a real-world experience that also benefits a business in their community.
	Advancing the concept of technology Education The Advanced Technology Center in Virginia beach City represents a new concept in career and technical education.
	Advocates Take Message to Capitol Hill At the ACTE 2007 National Policy Seminar, educators became better prepared advocates for career and technical education.
	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.
	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.
	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 21st Century Schools CTE programs for the 21st century require suitably high-tech facilities.
	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 a Future for Future Builders Chicago’s ACE Tech High School is helping attract young people to careers in the building trades.
	Building Relationships with Local Media (All Access) ACTE’s media relations manager, Sabrina Kidwai, discusses how to build fruitful relationships with the media.
	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.
	Businessman's Efforts Help Reinvent Valley Tech In Upton, Massachusetts, one local businessman helped revive Valley Tech’s manufacturing technologies program.
	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 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.
	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.
	Career and Technical Student Organizations Building Our Future CTSO students today are preparing to become outstanding citizens of tomorrow.
	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.
	Career Focus Auto A four-part special "Career Focus" supplement about today's automotive service technician careers.
	Career Focus: CAD/CAM Career and technical education students are training for a new dimension of design and manufacturing.
	Career Focus: Culinary Arts — Education for a Taste of Success Lorain County JVS Lehigh Career and Technical Institute Johnson & Wales University A Passport to Success
	Career Focus: Dental Assisstants, technicians and Hygienists CTE students are learning how to lend a hand for good dental health.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Crafting Hope The Artisans Program at Covenant House Washington is offering young people hope and a chance for a successful future.
	Developing Careers (All Access) The DECA International Career Development Conference highlights the skills and achievements of marketing students from across the nation.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Family and Consumer Sciences Education: The Compassionate Curriculum Among the lessons students are learning in this field of career and technical education may be some of the most important in life—how to become more caring human beings.
	Fashioning a Successful Career An education in fashion design is an education in style.
	Five Strategies to Develop Cultural Competence Among Allied health Occupations Students Multiculturalism and exploring other cultures as an important part of health occupations education.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Getting Down to Business Business education is an ever-changing field, but it maintains its role in creating young entrepreneurs.
	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.
	Improving reading proficiency through CTE Reading skills may be improved by incorporating content literacy into the CTE classroom.
	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.
	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.
	Keeping Kids in School: The Power of CTE A report from the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education on the growing body of research that links high school CTE to reducing the likelihood of youth leaving school prematurely.
	Knowing Our Place in the Community Career and technical education programs often have special connections with the places where they are based.
	Lights, Camera, "FFA in Action!" Oklahoma's Comanche High School uses mass media to spread the word about FFA.
	Like No Business We Know... Innovative CTE programs across the country are preparing technicians for work in the entertainment industry.
	Making a Great First Impression Appearance, attitude and actions are things you can teach your students to help them make a great first impression.
	Making the Case for Tech Prep The evidence is starting to come in, and it makes a strong case for tech prep.
	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.
	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.
	Moving on Up There are a number of technical schools and community colleges across the country that are reporting tremendous growth.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Organize for More Time A business education teacher offers some organizational solutions to help teachers better manage their classrooms and their time.
	Partners in Community Service At Vermont’s Stafford Technical Center, community service is part of “The Stafford Way.”
	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.
	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.
	Physics in the Real World...Teaching Outside the Textbook A teacher's perspective on principles of technology
	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.
	Process Versus Product In career and technical education, sometimes the learning process is just as important as the product created.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Sharing the Language of Learning In West Chicago, a clothing class is welcoming newcomers with book bags and help with learning how to use the local library.
	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.
	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.
	Students, Start Your Engines the Y.E.S. program uses drag racing to inspire students to explore their career options.
	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.
	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.
	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 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.
	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.
	The CORE Connection CTE and the academic subjects that make up the core curriculum can work together to improve student learning.
	The Enrollment Funnel Marketing expert Mark Perna returns this month with advice on how to funnel more students into your programs.
	The Fiber Optics Connection As the use of fiber optics grows, career and technical education programs are preparing technicians to meet workforce demand.
	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.
	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.
	The Growth of Health Career Camps The Growth of Health Career Camps
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	The Secret of Classroom Management Two experienced career tech educators share advice on creating a well-managed classroom.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Water, Water, Everywhere yet Do I Dare Drink? A career academy in Florida presents an example of excellence in interdisciplinary education.
	Why go Robo? Educators are using robotics to teach complex science, math and technology topics, and students are having fun learning.
	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.
	Women and Minorities in Agriculture Agriculture is a field in which any student may find success.
	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.
	Working Smarter, Not Harder, Part IV Tips for teachers.
	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.