Shipp Recognized with ACTE Outstanding Service Award

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 1, 2005

CONTACT: Megan Reiter
(703) 683-9312; mreiter@acteonline.org

ALEXANDRIA, VA- The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) announces that Dr. Jerry Shipp of Texarkana, Arkansas will receive the ACTE Outstanding Service Award. The award will be presented at the ACTE Annual Convention and Career Tech Expo, December 9th in Kansas City, Missouri

This award is given in recognition of educators who have made the highest meritorious contributions to the improvement, promotion and development of career and technical education.

Shipp has helped students reach their full potential for over 33 years. He began his vocational career as a Marketing teacher. He currently serves as the Director of Career and Technical Education for the Texarkana, Arkansas School District and the Texarkana Area Vocational Center.

In his hometown of Texarkana, Arkansas, Shipp works with middle and high school students on various programs. In 1997, he introduced a proposal that would later turn into a student operated television program called Razorback TV. Shipp also worked on the 9th Grade Academy, a program established to improve test scores and to better assist students with their career and educational choices.

Shipp has been a life member of ACTE since 1981. He has been very active in both the Arkansas and national ACTE. Shipp was awarded the ACTE Region IV Educator of the Year award for 1999-2000. He is also a former state association president.

Shipp’s devotion to career and technical education is felt by students and peers alike. One colleague comments, “Dr. Shipp has been a true leader in the field of career and technical education in Arkansas...He always strives to ‘think outside the box’ and searches for ways to improve, modernize, and advance his programs, while constantly keeping the focus on his students.”

The Association for Career and Technical Education is the national professional association for the field of career and technical education. Now in it’s 79th year, ACTE’s membership numbers more than 30,000 teachers, counselors and administrators at the middle school, high school and postsecondary levels.