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How All Educators Can Benefit From CTE Teachers
Did you know that CTE is a unique combination of English, Math, Science, Social Studies and even World Languages? Did you know that every CTE pathway integrates academics as a standard practice? Did you know that enrollment in CTE is a strong predictor of staying in high school – especially for bo...
How All Educators Can Benefit from CTE Teachers
All educators can benefit from CTE teachers in a very powerful way. In my school district the Health Sciences, Human Services, and Family and Consumer Sciences teachers continue to work closely with academic teachers on academic integration by collaborating on senior projects and student completer ...
Why Academies Work
Demauri was a freshman in an Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. History class, I am not sure why freshmen are offered AP U.S. History, and she was going to decide what she wanted to do with the rest of her high school career and life. This is where I came in. It was my duty as lead teacher of the e...
Career and Technical Education for All
I think John Dewey would be proud if he saw career and technical education (CTE) today. John Dewey advocated for linked-learning, or work-based learning, where students gain support for academic/technical content through real-world experience. Students participating in work-based learning com...
Changing the World One Student at a Time
Warning: Be ready for a little rah-rah session, warm and fuzzy read, and a change the world story!!!
Changing the world one student at a time… this is my educational philosophy. I am a product of CTE and remember still after all of these years my positive high school experience in CT...
Why the Academy structure is well suited for ex-industry professionals
Graduating with my Master’s degree in Geotechnical engineering was the final step in securing my future as an engineer. Soon after, I found a job in Memphis and began my time as an engineering intern. The job would provide me the exposure to managing technicians, developing designs for projects, ...
Tips for Contacting Your Members of Congress to Support CTE
Often educators receive emails requesting support of CTE funding legislation or other legislative items related to education. I believe many people are unsure of how to contact their member of Congress and how their advocacy can make a difference. The following are steps for creating ...
Pivotal People: How CTE Educators Change Lives
Speaking from a student’s viewpoint, CTE teachers rock. I’ve never met a group of educators with a greater passion for teaching, a larger source of knowledge, and a bigger pool of connections. With seven out of eight of my CTE teachers having come from industry (or still in it), they are certain...
Ready, Set, Advocate!
The most effective school leaders are those who are the most effective communicators. It is my belief that a CTE center newsletter is one of the most powerful tools I, as a CTE counselor, can have in communicating and advocating the rigor and relevance of CTE to my surrounding community.
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Mr. Flotron Goes To Washington
I was fortunate to attend the National Policy Seminar this year in Washington D.C. While in our nation’s capital, I not only was able to walk in the footprints of our founding fathers, but I was able to forge some footprints of my own.
After walking what must have been 25 miles over...