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Technology evolves to transform learning
Looking back over the year since January 2021, since Techniques and ACTE staff met to plan this and the other issues in our 2021–22 editorial calendar, I hope you'll take a moment to notice how far we have come. You are truly remarkable. Career and technical education (CTE) faculty and students...
Expanding access to high-quality work-based learning with Simulated Workplace
"Expanding access to high-quality work-based learning with Simulated Workplace" appears in its entirety in Techniques' November/December 2021 print issue.
"Great meeting today. Let's discuss ideas for our engine challenge tomorrow morning, after our safety data updates. Thanks everyone for your att...
Techniques presents the Access Issue
“ACTE strives to empower educators to deliver high-quality career and technical education (CTE) programs that ensure all students are positioned for career success.”
In order to provide high-quality CTE programs, we must make sure students have access. A great many students face barri...
ACTE Announces District of Columbia CTE Director as National Award Finalist
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 15, 2021
Contact: Megan Kmiotek
mkmiotek@acteonline.org
ACTE Announces District of Columbia CTE Director as National Award Finalist
ALEXANDRIA, VA—Today, the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) announced Clifton Marti...
Representation matters. Read Techniques in April
Workforce development starts in our career and technical education (CTE) programs. As a global economy expands further, CTE must consider its role and responsibility to improve representation — among our role models, partners and in the classroom.
Representation matters.
This April issue of Tech...
CTE IS THE REASON I AM WHERE I AM TODAY, AND I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL!
February is Career and Technical Education (CTE) month. If it were not for CTE, I’m not sure I would be in the career I love, today. I will forever be grateful for my high school career and technical education (CTE), Ford Motor Company Fund (Ford Fund), and Ford Motor Company. I’m grateful to CT...
Time is moving WAY too fast.
It seems like only yesterday I started what I now affectionately call my ‘leadership journey’. I was lost, truly, but not in a ‘I don’t know where I am’ sense, more of a ‘I don’t know WHO I am’ sense. I had come to the awareness that I wanted my life to mean more. What that meant I w...
Talk to your kids
I have said for a long time that we need to talk more to our kids about the work we do and the careers we have in order to foster their thinking about the question, “What do I want to be when I grow up?” In fact, this was a suggestion that I came up with as a result of the research I did for my ...
In Online CTE, Focus on Interaction
Educational researchers have long recognized the social and situated nature of learning. Learning – particularly learning as it relates to a skill or trade – is social because it is passed on slowly over time by experienced masters to novices, much as CTE instructors pass their hands-on knowledg...
Play
Sitting at the front of my room I had a tile board that read “Play is the Highest Form of Research” one of my favorite quotes from Einstein. I have often used the word play when I want to dive deaper into something I’m learning. I used it so much I had a high school student tell my “you play...