{"id":1631,"date":"2025-09-11T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acteonline.org\/cte-101\/?page_id=1631"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:31:40","slug":"why-cte","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acteonline.org\/cte-101\/why-cte\/","title":{"rendered":"Why CTE?"},"content":{"rendered":"  <style>\r\n    body blockquote::before {\r\n        background: #11ada2;\r\n    }\r\n  <\/style>\r\n  <section id=\"row-block_f3465f68c72e6d1291a525ecf4e8f31c\" class=\"wysiwyg-2col \">\r\n  <div class=\"content-area\">\r\n            <div class=\"image-area\">\r\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acteonline.org\/cte-101\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/09\/WhyCTE-Thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\">\r\n        <\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"text-area \">\r\n      <h2>Why CTE?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acteonline.org\/cte-101\/download-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Download PDF version<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through CTE, students gain technical, academic and employability skills like communication and problem solving, apply their learning in the real world and explore careers while planning for their futures.<\/p>\n<h4>Benefits for Students<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Students can explore a range of careers as they\u2019re forming their vocational identity (<a href=\"https:\/\/clalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Influences_on_Occupational_Identity_Adolescence.pdf\">Connected Learning Alliance<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>CTE has positive impacts on academic achievement and high school completion (<a href=\"https:\/\/cteresearchnetwork.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-11\/CTE-ResSynthInfog-508.pdf\">CTE Research Network<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Students are more likely to enroll in two-year colleges and just as likely to enroll in four-year colleges as their peers (<a href=\"https:\/\/cteresearchnetwork.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-11\/CTE-ResSynthInfog-508.pdf\">CTE Research Network<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>CTE is positively linked to postsecondary persistence and degree attainment (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/research\/publication\/which-college-and-career-readiness-standards-best-align-positive-outcomes\">Urban Institute<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Students who take CTE courses have higher employment rates after high school (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/research\/publication\/which-college-and-career-readiness-standards-best-align-positive-outcomes\">Urban Institute<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Benefits for Employers and Communities<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The nation faces a projected deficit of 6 million workers by 2032 in health care, utilities and other CTE-related industries (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.datocms-assets.com\/62658\/1726526804-the_rising_storm_lightcast_final.pdf\">Lightcast<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Employers in high-demand industries report hiring people because of their CTE experience <a href=\"https:\/\/careertech.org\/resource\/shifting-the-skills-conversation-employer-attitudes-and-outcomes-of-career-technical-education\/\">(Advance CTE<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>CTE programs contribute significantly to the economies of states and local communities (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acteonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ACTE_InvestingInCTE_Jan2023.pdf\">ACTE<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\n\n  <style>\r\n    body blockquote::before {\r\n        background: #11ada2;\r\n    }\r\n  <\/style>\r\n    <section id=\"row-block_2ebc1358ffed2c9ba589f2eb93531cce\" class=\"wysiwyg-1col\">\r\n    <div class=\"content-area\">\r\n      <h4>In Action: Exploring Careers Through CTE<\/h4>\n<p>Follow Marco as he moves through a pathway that includes CTE coursework, career awareness and planning, work-based learning, industry credentials, early postsecondary credit and more &#8212;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grade 7<\/strong>: Marco completes several assessments of his career skills and interests and hears from guest speakers in different industries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grade 8<\/strong>: Marco takes a semester-long career awareness course where he researches careers and interviews adults about their jobs. His class visits the high school to learn about its CTE programs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grade 9<\/strong>: Marco spends a semester rotating through different CTE areas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grade 10<\/strong>: Marco takes an introductory CTE course in arts, entertainment and design and joins a related career and technical student organization (CTSO).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grade 11<\/strong>: Marco takes a course in media production and shadows a manager at a local news station.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grade 12<\/strong>: Marco takes a dual-credit course in digital animation, earns an Adobe certification and has a six-week internship at a video production company. He plans to attend college in the fall to study graphic design and animation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Throughout<\/strong>: Marco reviews his individual learning plan twice a year with his school counselor and family, refining his plans and adding completed courses, projects and experiences to his portfolio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/section>\r\n  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1631","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why CTE? - CTE 101<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acteonline.org\/cte-101\/why-cte\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why CTE? 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