Musings about 21st Century Career and Technical Education
“ACTE represents educators, but education itself, just like sustainability, is about the students, the next generation, the future. After all, it’s the students building the automobiles of the future, designing sustainable homes and exploring the meaning of sustainable living.”
The National Academy Foundation (NAF) is an acclaimed national network of high school career academies predominately based in urban districts-schools within schools-with rigorous, career-themed curricula created with current industry and educational expertise. Each year, NAF serves more than 50,000 students in over 500 Academies in 40 states and the District of Columbia through the Academy of Finance, the Academy of Engineering, the Academy of Hospitality & Tourism, and the Academy of Information Technology.
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Lime offers a fresh approach that brings people with disabilities (PWD) into the workforce and creates access to a 1.1 billion person marketplace
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In two days I’ve come across two articles, from two states, each looking to stem the high school drop out rate and create a sense of relevancy for its high school students. And the solution, in both cases, is to offer rigorous, updated, academic-enriched career and technical education.
In Texas, Classes aimed at student interests shows how career and technical education is providing options for students so that they stay in school and upon graduation they could pursue a job or college. In California, the Senate leader makes big push for new-economy job skills notes that there are many jobs going unfilled because workers don’t have the skills and companies can’t find qualified workers; it is also noted that the California education system is trying to force all kids through the same “keyhole” and it simply isn’t working.
Are education systems finally seeing that the isolation of subject matter is resulting in a perceived lack of relevance? Students can learn math in construction, chemistry and physics in welding, algebra and trigonometry in machining, biology and statistics in health sciences, art in graphic design; reading and writing can be infused in all areas; technology can be integrated and 21st century thinking skills e
mbedded.
Today’s career and technical education (CTE) is rich and relevant – it is not your father’s shop class. Visit your local career and technical skills school, ask how academics are embedded, ask how the completion of CTE programs results in college credit for high school students. You may be amazed at what you find.
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Ladies, Start Your Engines is an automotive repair class just for women. Taught by instructor Lori Johnson, the main goal of this hands-on class is to empower the participants by giving each woman the confidence to perform her own light automotive maintenance.
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Welcome to WAAI : Official Web Site of the Women’s Automotive Association International
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Education Week: Career Skills Said to Get Short Shrift
An excellent article looking at today’s CTE and the importance of preparation and integrated academics
Michigan Health Occupations Educators Association
The state-level organization for health occupations educators
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Article on Washtenaw Community College’s Culinary Arts program and its growth.
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Explore large structures and what it takes to build them with BUILDING BIG™, a five-part PBS television series and Web site from WGBH Boston. Interactive labs, Challenges, Wonders of the World Databases, Who Builds Big?. Bridges, Domes, Skyscrapers, Dams and Tunnels.
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