About the Fellowship

The NextLevel Postsecondary CTE Leaders Fellowship is a year-long professional development experience designed to strengthen leadership capacity among postsecondary CTE professionals.

Leadership Development

Fellows strengthen skills in communication, collaboration, strategic thinking, problem-solving, networking and effective management of time and resources. They learn with peers and receive guidance from an experienced mentor while applying their learning to their work.

Applied Institutional Improvement

Each Fellow develops a Make It Better Plan focused on a professional objective, challenge or opportunity within their institution or area of work. The plan is designed to move leadership learning into action and support meaningful improvement in postsecondary CTE.

Learning and Engagement

The Fellowship includes monthly webinars and cohort learning, mentoring, national conference experiences, in-person convenings and opportunities to learn from CTE, workforce and education leaders.

National Connections

Fellows engage with ACTE and the broader postsecondary CTE community through national events, peer collaboration and opportunities to share their work.

Commitment

Fellows are expected to participate in required program activities including 2 in-person meetings, ACTE’S Postsecondary CTE Summit and ACTE’s National Policy Seminar and 10 monthly virtual meetings, complete program deliverables, develop a Make It Better Plan and participate in evaluation activities.