Blogs
Don’t feel like you have to go this alone
In the midst of changes that are occurring on a global scale in education, career and technical education is in the middle of its own transition from the way we think about teaching and learning pre-Covid 19 to post-Covid 19. As Career and Technical educators, we will be on the forefront of that tra...
How do students in your community find our about CTE?
How do students find out about the Career and Technical Education opportunities in your community? What programs of study does your school district offer? How old are students when they find out about those programs of study?
In order to make sure that the CTE programs of study continue to grow...
Average or Excellent?
Which would you rather be? Average or excellent? It is a simple question, yet one with profound impact. Most of us would say that we want excellent, but then our lives, and our schools, reflect average. I know this all too well as I review some of what we’ve done at my school. We haven’t always ...
Leading Remotely: The Power of Teams
Responding to COVID-19 – as a central office Administrator – has been one of the most rewarding, yet, introspective experiences of my career. As a relatively new CTE Coordinator, leading remotely – through ambiguous times – has illustrated my leadership equity to this point, and tested my ab...
Professional Development – ACTE CareerTech VISION
Ongoing, strategic professional development is the most important thing a CTE teacher or administrator can do. Teaching can be a very isolating activity, especially for a CTE teacher. Many times there is only one or two CTE teachers in a pathway in a building so the opportunity to collaborate on new...
Water Works
We are passionate about the subjects that we teach. We go to workshops, attend PD, go to conferences, and interact with industry in the subjects we teach. These are great opportunities to make our content better for our students, but I have experienced that it also has the opportunity to narrow our ...
How Can Administrators Help Alleviate Teacher Burnout?
When talking to almost any new teacher about their first years in the teaching profession, a similar topic arises: stress. New teachers are struggling to keep their head above water because they are consumed with learning new curriculum, developing lesson plans, dealing with students’ behavioral...
Career Development is a Process
Let’s think about this. A career is something to which most people will devote around forty years of their life. It not only provides individuals with the income to meet their standard of living, but it is also the identifier by which that most people describe themselves. So why don’t we a...
How VISION has impacted my career!
I have been fortunate enough to attend three VISION conferences- all fantastic experiences. I often find myself getting lost in the keynote messages and leave the general sessions inspired. But, truth be known, it is nothing on the agenda that has helped me grow the most in my career.
I have ...
CTE in the Pandemic
Teaching in general has been a challenge in general, but this couldn’t be truer than for CTE teachers. As we all know, CTE courses should be hands on performance-based classes that many times require specialty software, equipment or tools that equivalate experiences cannot be provided virtually. D...