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It's a New Year!

Welcome to 2023! We hope you all had a spectacular holiday season with friends and family and were able to unwind and relax a bit after a wonderful year of inspiring students and helping them make better decisions about their future. 

It's a new year and a new ACTE career academy section! We want to hear from you about what you need and want from the Career Academy Section in 2023. We are all part of a movement that is transformational. Why is it transformational? Because it is good for all students – each and every student. Career and technical education through the delivery of the career academy model makes learning relevant, engaging and real world. Combine career and technical education with their core academics and those core academics come to life for students. Students begin to see how they will use math, science, English language arts and social studies as well as acquiring professional and personal skills that carry them through life!

We want to hear from you, we want to learn from you, we want to challenge you and we want to solve problems together. Please tell us everything through a short survey! We want this career academy section to work for you and your needs so that collectively we can ensure this career academy movement becomes available to all students. 

Thank you for your hard work and dedication to the young people in your community and for being tireless advocates for CTE. Let’s make 2023 a year to network and learn from each other!

Your Career Academy Section Team!

Career Academy Section News

Virtual Events

Career Academy Section Virtual Meet-ups

If you are part of the ACTE career academy section then the Spring virtual session is hitting your inbox soon! Watch your inbox for more information about each monthly meetup and how to get connected to this amazing group!  

Scroll down to see ACTE's upcoming webinars!

In-person Events

From ACTE

ACTE Elections

ACTE Announces Board of Directors 2023 Election Results

ACTE's recent board of directors election was open to the Association’s membership of approximately 25,000 educators, administrators and other career and technical education (CTE) professionals. We are grateful to all of the candidates for their willingness to serve the Association. And congratulations go out to the winners:

• Carrie Scheiderer, president-elect
• Bart Taylor, Trade and Industrial Education Division vice president
• Sandra Adams, Administration Division vice president-elect
• Brooke Kusch, Counseling and Career Development Division vice president-elect
• Shawn Freie, Postsecondary, Adult & Career Education Division vice president-elect
• *Fran Bromley-Norwood, Engineering Technology Education Division vice president
• *Douglas Bush, Region I vice president

*Appointed by the board of directors

Additionally, the vice president-elect whose election occurred last year will join the board as vice president in July 2023. Michael Culwell will assume the position of Region IV vice president. Learn more

CTE Month

Share Your CTE Stories During CTE Month!

Generously sponsored by NAHB

Join us as we celebrate CTE Month, generously sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders, and help spread awareness about the importance of CTE by sharing your success stories by using #CTEMonth on social media, encouraging your students to participate in this year’s CTE Month-NASA HUNCH student video challenge, “What is the Purpose of NASA?,” gearing up with festive CTE Month merchandise at shopacte.com to show your support for CTE, and much more! Learn more

Professional Development

Turn CTE Advocacy Into Policy Action!

Join career and technical education (CTE) professionals at ACTE’s National Policy Seminar (NPS) to voice your vision on key education policy topics, learn about best practices for influencing CTE-related federal policy and messaging, and meet with legislators this March 19–22 in Arlington, Virginia. We are pleased announce Daniel Lippman, White House and Washington reporter at POLITICO, as the NPS keynote speaker — visit us online to register and view the complete agenda. Learn more

Shape the Future of Work-based Learning

Learn about innovations in work-based learning and model programs across the nation at ACTE’s National Work-based Learning Conference, happening April 26–28 in Atlanta, Georgia. This event offers expertise on supporting the delivery of quality experiences that foster in-depth, firsthand engagement with the skills required in any given career field. Learn more

Tackle Teacher Recruitment & Retention at Teach CTE Summit!

Join us at ACTE’s Teach CTE Summit, happening June 27–29 in St. Paul, Minnesota, to address the CTE teacher pipeline shortage. This event will highlight promising practices, national models and leading research with a secondary focus to solve this important issue. Learn more

Best Practices CFPs Now Open! 

Happening Sept. 27–29 in Salt Lake City, Utah, ACTE’s and NCLA’s Best Practices and Innovations in CTE Conference is seeking session proposals  to strengthen the field for CTE administrators of both secondary and postsecondary CTE programs and institutions. The deadline to submit presentation proposals is March 13. Learn more

VISION 2023 CFPs Now Open!

Share your expertise at ACTE’s CareerTech VISION, the premier annual gathering of CTE professionals happening Nov. 29–Dec. 2 in Phoenix, Arizona. We are seeking session proposals that address the full range of issues facing CTE educators, administrators and key stakeholders as they strive to prepare students with the knowledge and skills to succeed! VISION features an exciting, educational and inspirational agenda packed with hundreds of concurrent sessions, an Expo and Career Pavilion, awards and recognition programming and a rich array of networking opportunities. The deadline to submit session proposals is March 3. Learn more

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