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 Scott M. Olsen will receive the ACTE Arch of Fame Award. The award will be presented at the ACTE Annual Convention and Career Tech Expo, December 9, in Kansas City, Missouri.
The award recognizes the contributions and distinguished accomplishments of those persons who have been identified with the work and purposes of ACTE. It provides recognition for the commitment and dedication that individuals may have demonstrated to the organization.
Olsen has been an avid supporter and advocate of career and technical education for the past 36 years. He is the director of the CTE program at the Jordan School District in Salt Lake City, Utah. Olsen also supervises a secondary charter school, a prison education program, and the district’s adult high school.
He was the first in the state to place the most advanced technology labs in secondary schools. Olsen was also the first CTE director to promote skills certification testing by awarding educators additional classroom funds based on test scores. The Jordan School District’s CTE program receives the highest marks in the state with the most up to date curriculum and resources available.
At the state level, he serves on the CTE Funding, Skills Certification, and Job Placement sub-committees. Olsen mentors Career and Technical Education Directors throughout the region. He encourages ACTE membership and participation by providing resources to support district CTE leaders and educators in attending the national convention.
Olsen has been described as being “demanding and fair, open and forgiving, visionary and traditional, cultured and fashionable...” His dedication to career and technical education has “established a legacy that is admired, often copied, idolized and respected.”
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.
