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CTE Delivers Leaders

ACTE’s latest issue brief, CTE’s Role in Leadership
Development, spotlights the many ways CTE prepares
students to be leaders in school and in their careers.

Issue

December

Up Front

2012

IN THIS BRIEF:

CTE’S ROLE IN

LEADERSHIP

A

DEVELOPMENT

This Issue Brief
will explore
the
integral role
CTE curricula
and
programs can
play in addressing
the leadership
skills gap
facing employers
. CTE fosters
future leaders
by providing
leadership training
in class and
through related
activities, by
placing students
in workplace
contexts where
they can
receive mentorsh
ip and observe
leadership in
action, and
by
empowering
students
authentic leadership with
roles.

gap exists between
the skills employees
have and the
skills employers
with leadership
want.
ability and
a recession
experience.
and high unemploym Despite
ity of employers
The majoran estimated
now believe
ent rates,
3 million jobs
that preparing
workforce with
remained unfilled
2012.1 In a poll
the
prerequisite
in
of employers,
leadership skills
educationa
more than half
they were unable
l system’s responsibil
is the
reported
to recruit workers
ity.5
positions, 2 and
for open
While providing
human resource
students with
professiona
a lack of workforce
ls predict
leadership skills
can pose teaching
readiness will
and
for years to
impact employers
come.3 While
career and technical assessment challenges,
this skills gap
number of fronts,
education (CTE)
exists on a
initiatives, which
courses and
among employers’
often involve
leadership—
desired skills,
teamwork and
the ability to
project-bas
ed learning,
inspire others
a common
provide ideal
to achieve
goal—is often
for students
opportunit
cited as one
to learn, observe
ies
critical, but
of the most
and apply leadership
deficient, skills. 4
in work-relate
d situations
in preparation
future careers.
In the past,
for their
learning how
to motivate
curred in the
others ocworkplace while
moving up
rate ladder.
the corpoHowever, as
many experience
ees in today’s
d employworkforce near
retirement
become more
and jobs
LACK OF ON-THEcomplex as
well as simultaneo
collaborative
JOB TRAININ
usly
and self-directe
FOR FUTURE
G
d, it is becoming
LEADERS
important that
more
workforce entrants
When asked
come equipped
to choose which
skills are most
needed in today’s
workplace,
employability
skills,

The Concern
s

ACTE Issue

36

Brief: Leadership

Developmen

t 1

A Recap of CareerTech VISION 2012

Atlanta was the site of the first-ever
CareerTech VISION. This article provides highlights
of the Opening and Closing General Sessions, as
well as the list of this year’s ACTE award winners,
exhibitors and sponsors, and more!

6

LEADING EDGE
ACTE President Karen Mason shares her
experience with at-risk students.

8

CLASSROOM CONNECTION
It is essential that teachers use the technological teaching tools available today. iPad
apps are multifunctional and have proven
to be powerful classroom tools.

10 LEADERSHIP MATTERS
The Alaska Association of Career and
Technical Education (AACTE) created the
Leadership Institute to strengthen AACTE
through leadership development.

12 CAPITOL VIEW

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Safety and Health in the Technical
Classroom and Laboratory: Part 1

The safety of students in the laboratory is of upmost importance.
Authors Backes and Nowalski explain their safety and health
model for ensuring the safety of all who enter the laboratory.

CTE plays a critical role in enabling
students to apply knowledge to a career
that inspires them—a message we need
to bring to Congress.

14 Q AND A
This month, Jessie Pagan, Jr., of the Cisco
Networking Academy interviews Robin
McLean, the 2013 ACTE Teacher of the Year.

In Back
56 INSIDE ACTE
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AOD resolutions; ACTE Excellence Awards
Program; ACTE Benefit of the Month—Pride
in Your Profession; CareerTech VISION Call
for Proposals; etc.

58 Career Curve

Legendary Words Spark
Educators and Businesses

The Olympic community of schools in Charlotte, North Carolina,
has partnered with local business and industry to enhance
student learning and create a sustainable pipeline of workers.

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Teaching Marketable Skills
with 21st-Century Materials

In 2010, Puyallup High School’s former shop
teacher, Alex Macdonald, created one of the first
high school composite courses in Washington
state with a limited budget and support from
area technical colleges and industry.

www.acteonline.org

This month’s featured career is chef, with
the school spotlight on Pathfinder Regional
Vocational Technical High School.

60 E-CONNECT
BrainPop, Scoop.it and Tildee are online
tools to give teachers the resources they
need to revolutionize their teaching methods.

Celebrate
CTE Month!®

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