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Improving educational outcomes with equity in mind
The February 2022 issue of Techniques seeks to address the unique challenges that diverse students face to success, or even entry, in high-wage, high-demand CTE pathways. Transportation, for example, is a “huge barrier,” wrote Amanda Bastoni, educational research scientist at CAST and ACTE’s n...
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.
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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...
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...
Times Change – Human Connection Does Not
The importance of connection among other people is proven. Some would even argue that the sense of connection within your career is more important than any money, prestige, or accolades earned. The energy and trust we build through human connection is often the bedrock of our success within our care...