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Using Dog Sled Racing to Teach Genetics and Nutrition
My mother, an elementary school teacher for 32 years, worked hard to connect her students to subject matter. Mom did this using real life, high interest events, one of these was the Iditarod Dog Sled Race. The Alaskan Race is held every March and covers 1,000 miles from Anchorage to Nome. The Iditar...
EXCERPT: Instructional Coaching & Its Role in Career Development for CTE Teachers
What is an instructional coach?
Quality teacher professional development is essential to the outcome of student achievement. In their careers, teachers must be challenged with new ideas in order to foster a classroom culture of student engagement. The instructional coach is an embedded professional...
The future’s so bright…I gotta wear shades!
As an educator, it is my job to teach my students. As someone with compassion and vested interest in her students, it is my privilege to help them find a successful career after high school. In an Alternative Learning Environment (ALE), we face the harsh facts that less than 5% of our seniors wi...
Happy Spring Everyone!
Happy Spring Everyone!
It's great to start feeling the winter thaw, but that also means getting ready for the work ahead this year. These are exciting times with the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century (Perkins V) Act reauthorized by Congress and renewed interest in ...
#DECAATTProject Helps Turn Despair Into Advantage
It’s not every day you meet a student who has everything going for them - intelligence, good health and home life, no financial challenges and excellent school environment. In fact, today, the exact opposite is more common. That is why the partnership between Akron Public Schools’ North High C...
Cybersecurity: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility!
With so many things connected to the internet, we all need to be aware of the dangers. More and more devices are connected to the internet all the time, which means more entry points and vulnerabilities. To secure the many “internet of things” (IoT) connected devices is a major cybersecurity cha...
Great Oaks Signing Days honor nearly 300 students
Every year, in high schools across the country, student athletes participate in Signing Days to commit to sports at colleges and universities.
For many students, though, the next step beyond high school is a career. Until now, that step hasn’t always received the attention it deserves. This...
CTE IN THE NEWS: Next Tech Showcase Highlights Student Achievement
The second annual Next Tech Student Showcase took place on Saturday, May 4 at the Carrboro
Century Center, in Carrboro, North Carolina. More than 150 community members were guided by Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) students through the use of various tech tools including virtual reality (...
CTE IN THE NEWS: Family, Career and Community Leaders of America Give Back
During the 2018–19 school year, The Twiggs County Comprehensive Middle High School partnered with The Fort Valley State University and its Extension Agent Terolyn Chaney to feed the community and conduct resume writing workshops.
The FCCLA chapter and its advisor, TaQuila Thomas, and Chaney con...
Teaching Strategy: Build Vocabulary with Jenga
In a given school year, CTE students are challenged to learn more than 200 technical terms. Learning these terms, however, is only the beginning.
The art of teaching vocabulary lies in engaging students in conversations around technical vocabulary terms without them even realizing it. If you ann...