Education
AI and CTE: Helping students learn about AI for jobs is crucial
AI in education is important, but AI and CTE are a must-have partnership to help prepare students for jobs-yet-to-be and AI itself.
CTE
Career-Technical Education
Taking career and technical education beyond the classroom
Work-based learning experiences can be powerful learning opportunities, but they can be a challenge to coordinate.
Education
How entrepreneurship education builds strong community ties
My district’s relationship with the business community, which uses entrepreneurship education as a cornerstone, is about to get even stronger.
Career-Technical Education
How understanding different learning styles can prepare students for the workforce
Offering four different styles of learning creates the best chance of success for all students
Career-Technical Education
How a “Dracula”-themed escape room helped drive deeper learning with project-based learning
We put students in charge of a project-based learning project -- a multidiscipline "Dracula"-themed escape room -- and here’s what happened.
Career-Technical Education
Offering prior learning credits helps increase earning power
Getting college credit for prior learning can help people slash thousands of dollars from tuition and reduce time needed to complete a degree.
Career-Technical Education
Broader, hands-on CTE helps engage students
It is our job as educators to engage students and help them explore career options as early as we can to set them up for success.
Education
Project-based learning helps CTE meet its potential
CTE can play a vital role in keeping communities intact, and project-based learning in CTE provides the tools to deliver on that promise.
Education
Stigma-free CTE makes all students problem-solvers
Earlier exposure to career and technical education could benefit all students, while a reshaping of CTE would greatly help students who choose those pathways. First, though, we need to change the negative perceptions around CTE.