We recently added the following courses to a growing collection of on-demand professional development at CTE Learn:
Join us at ACTE’s Teach CTE Summit, happening June 27–29 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
This national convening will address policy, research, and promising practices for teacher recruitment and retention. Presenters will focus on addressing career and technical education (CTE) teacher shortages at the state and local levels. The key audiences are administrators, teacher educators, teachers and instructors, CTE government officials, and researchers in the secondary and postsecondary areas.
Join us as we celebrate CTE Month — generously sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) — and help spread awareness about the importance of CTE for our students and for our nation’s economy. Share your CTE success stories and engage with us all month long.
Tell us honestly, what do you think about Techniques? We’re conducting a brief reader survey to make sure we’re developing content that works for you! Complete and submit by Dec. 3, and you could win a $50 gift card.
Meet ACTE’s new Work-based Learning (WBL) Division! The WBL Division includes a diverse group of professionals — work-based learning and apprenticeship coordinators, K–12 and postsecondary educators, business and community partners, program administrators, and state workforce representatives.
Members of the Work-based Learning Division provide students with authentic learning experiences in business and industry. These professionals are educators, counselors, and school-to-work/work-based learning coordinators. Members of this division involve students in experiences on all levels of the work-based learning continuum.
This division provides guidance and resources in offering quality work-based learning experiences for students, as outlined under the work-based learning element within the ACTE Quality CTE Program of Study Framework. This division can also assist those in states that choose to report on work-based learning for the new Perkins program quality indicator or in other state accountability systems to strengthen their student outcomes.
The 2023 ACTE board of directors’ election will be held this Dec. 2–Jan. 2! Please note these key dates:
Learn about the all-new Esports area of interest in the Engineering and Technology Education Division in an upcoming free webinar: Academic Esports – An Evolving Technology in CTE Pathways: Research in Academic Esports on Oct. 12 at 4:00 p.m. ET.
This new and growing CTE pathway seeks to engage students in emerging technologies through innovative advances in gamification and offers professional skills in collaboration, communication, creativity and analytical thinking. Academic Esports is also a gateway to STEM-related career pathways, such as software development, information technology, engineering and all programming-related fields.
Gamers today are makers tomorrow. Researchers at Learn more; attend the webinar.
ACTE announced its fourth class of postsecondary CTE fellows! The program, formerly known as the Postsecondary Leadership Success Program at ACTE — sponsored by ECMC Foundation, is excited to welcome a new class of 17 leaders in career and technical education.
The NextLevel Fellowship provides professional and career growth opportunities to the next generation of leaders in postsecondary CTE. Participants gain next-level leadership skills through a program of work that is that is engaging, individualized and memorable. Together they work alongside an experienced mentor to:
ACTE recently began a project to develop definitions for inclusion, access, equity and diversity (IAED) in the context of career and technical education. Aligning this with print issue themes in Techniques in 2021–22, we seek to define inclusion in September. Please contact Lia Milgram with questions.
ACTE recently began a project to develop definitions for inclusion, access, equity and diversity (IAED) in the context of career and technical education. Aligning this with print issue themes in Techniques in 2021–22, we seek to define access in November/December. Please contact Lia Milgram with questions.
