Publications

Counseling

• Counselors as CTE Stakeholders (PDF,145Kb)

Perkins IV

• NASDCTEc's Response to the Department of Education's "Guide for the Submission of State Plans" (Members Only)
• Perkins IV Frequently Asked Questions from the Department of Education/OVAE website

Perkins IV Crosswalks

Comprehensive and standardized mapping of CIP codes and O*NET/SOC occupational codes into career clusters and career pathways (from the PCRN website at http://www.edcountability.net).

• Perkins IV Crosswalks Users Guide (PDF,20Kb)
  
• Table 1 CIPs in Pathways (Excel,166Kb)
  
• Table 2 CIP-Pathway-Cluster (Excel,377Kb)
  
• Table 3 CIP-Nontrad-Cluster-Pathway (Excel,411Kb)
  
• Table 4 ONETs in Pathways (Excel,169Kb)
  
• Table 5 SOC-ONET-Nontrad-Cluster-Pathway (Excel,468Kb)
  
• Table 6 Cluster-Pathway-SOC-ONET-CIP (Excel,3.81Mb)
  
• Table 7 Primary Occupation and CIP in Pathways (Excel,376Kb)
  
• Non-traditional for Females from BLS 2006 Final (Excel,152Kb)
  
• Non-traditional for Males from BLS 2006 Final (Excel,54Kb)

Overview of CTE

• CTE 101 (Archive, 2003) (MSWord,95Kb)
• Career Cluster Implementation Across the Nation (PDF,53Kb)
• CTE and CTSOs: Student Success - American Success (PowerPoint,2.29Mb)
• Career and Technical Education: An Essential Component of the Total Educational System (PDF,1.55Mb)- NASDCTEc's vision paper (Adobe PDF document)
• Indicators of Success: CTE and Research (July 2003) (MSWord,98Kb)
• Career and Technical Education: A Value-Added Element of P-16 (MSWord,45Kb)
• New Seals of Endorsement in Career Technical Education (PDF,297Kb)
  - by Dr. Joan Wills.

State Leadership

• The Importance Of State Leadership For Career Technical Education: A Case Study From Arizona (MSWord,43Kb)
  - Mr. Milton Erickson, Arizona State Director for Career Technical Education - September 2003
• State Leadership for Career Technical Education (PDF,305Kb)
  - by Dr. Joanna Kister. An Executive Summary (PDF,95Kb) is also available.

NASDCTEc Surveys

• Career Technical Education: A National Perspective (MSWord,3.60Mb)
  - Results from a NASDCTEc survey of State Directors, September 2002
• "Career Technical Education: A National Perspective" (MSWord,472Kb)
  - Results From a NASDCTEc Survey of State Directors
• Through Diversity Comes Strength: A State Profile/Survey Synthesis of CTE (MSWord,452Kb)
  - Results from the 2005 NASDCTEc Survey of State Directors

Career Clusters

• The History of Career Clusters(MSWord,82Kb)
  
• Career Cluster Research Compendium (MSWord,89Kb)
• Career Clusters and Programs of Study: State of the States June 2007 (MSWord,127Kb)
• Career Clusters: A Plan of Education for a Global Economy (PDF,259Kb)

Teacher Preparation

• "Innovative Practices In CTE Teacher Preparation: A Case Study From Missouri" (MSWord,41Kb)
  - by Dr. Nancy Headrick, Missouri State Director for Career and Technical Education - September 2003

Funding

• Financing Vocational Education (PDF,168Kb)
  - A comprehensive guide to how states finance vocational technical education.
• The Role of Community Colleges in Teacher Preparation (MSWord,63Kb)

NCLB and CTE

• NCLB-Opportunities for CTE (MSWord,134Kb)

Articulation Agreements

• Alabama - Procedures for Establishing Statewide Career and Technical Education Course Articulation Agreements (113Kb); Course Articulation Review (166Kb); and Articulated Credit Recommendation (MSWord,148Kb): provide exmaples of three resources for successful articulation agreements.
• Nevada - Nevada Articulation Agreements (MSWord,28Kb): provides a joint policy statement for the Nevada State Board of Education/State Board for Occupational Education and the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education.
• Texas: this link provides examples of the many tools necessary to a successful articulation agreement, including a crosswalk of courses. Additionally, it provides specific information and templates for teachers, students, school districts and colleges.
• Virginia – Information Technology –Web Technologies Statewide Articulation Agreement : this link provides an actual statewide articulation agreement between the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) representing the Commonwealth’s 23 community colleges and Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) representing the Commonwealth’s public high schools.

Other Resources

• Reinventing the American High School for the 21st Century - published by the Association of Career Technical Education (ACTE)
• The Minnesota Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program: Does Participation in Dual Enrollment Programs Help High School Students Attain Career and Technical Education Majors and Degrees in College? (MSWord,371Kb)
  - by Pradeep Kotamraju, System Director, Perkins; Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
• The Minnesota Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program: Does Participation in Dual Enrollment Programs Help High School Students Attain Career and Technical Education Majors and Degrees in College? (PowerPoint,933Kb)
  -by Pradeep Kotamraju, System Director, Perkins; Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
• The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts: How Shared Accountability Can Foster Improved Secondary-Postsecondary Collaboration (PDF,63Kb)
• Career Clusters: A Plan of Education for a Global Economy (PDF,259Kb)
• Through Diversity Comes Strength: A State Profile Survey/Synthesis of CTE (MSWord,457Kb)
• The Role of Governance in Supporting Effective Secondary and Postsecondary Partnerships (PDF,154 Kb)
• Forging New Pathways: Promising Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Students in Career and Technical Education Programs that are Nontraditional for Their Gender (PDF,1.65Mb)
• Tech Prep Toolkit: Resources to accompany the brief: To Merge or Not To Merge, That is the Question!(MSWord,32Kb)
• Sharing the Vision of a National Item Bank to Support Career Technical Education Assessment (from NASDCTE Spring 2008 meeting, Technical Assessments Panel)(PDF,126Kb)
• Acronyms for CTE(MSWord,168Kb) January 2009
• Implementing Programs of Study: What, Why and How?(With Accompanying Toolkit Embedded)October 2008(PDF,213Kb)