CTE Without Limits

CTE Without Limits

A Shared Vision for the Future of Career Technical Education

Without Limits: A Shared Vision for the Future of Career Technical Education (CTE Without Limits) puts forth a bold vision for a cohesive, flexible, and responsive career preparation ecosystem that will close equity gaps in edu-cational outcomes and workforce readiness, and leverage CTE as a catalyst for ensuring each learner can reach success in the career of their choice.

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The Principles

Developed with input from nearly 200 national, state and local education and workforce development leaders and supported by 42 national organizations, CTE Without Limits lays out five inter-connected and equally critical principles.

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Each learner engages in a cohesive, flexible, and responsive career preparation ecosystem.

Each learner feels welcome in, is supported by, and has the means to succeed in the career preparation ecosystem.

Each learner skillfully navigates their own career journey.

Each learner’s skills are counted, valued, and portable.

Each learner can access CTE without borders.

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Call to Action

CTE Without Limits is ambitious and forward looking. It puts equity at the center and recognizes that our country needs a CTE system that works for each learner, wherever they are in their career journey and whatever their background.

Meet Our Supporters

This vision is not just calling for updates to our CTE, education and workforce systems. Rather, it is calling for a more cohesive, flexible and responsive career preparation ecosystem, with CTE at its nexus, that draws on the capacity of each existing system; leverages these systems’ greatest assets; and pushes for new models of collaboration, learner-centric design and delivery, funding and accountability that create the right incentives and supports.

Only through shared commitment and shared ownership among leaders and practitioners at all levels can we realize the possibility and aspiration of a new career preparation ecosystem that provides each learner with limitless opportunity.

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Pushing the Limits: A Roadmap for Advancing CTE Without Limits

Advance CTE has released its hallmark implementation vision tool. Pushing the Limits: A Roadmap for Advancing CTE Without Limits provides a step-by-step guide for states to conduct an initial alignment assessment, identify top areas for action, and develop implementation strategies for one or multiple vision principles.

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Without Limits: Reflections on a Shared Vision for the Future of CTE

To celebrate the release of CTE Without Limits, Advance CTE hosted a live virtual event, “Without Limits: Reflections on a Shared Vision for the Future of CTE” featuring leaders across workforce, philanthropy, education administration, and higher education to share their perspectives on vision themes and impact.

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Additional Resources

Lunch and Learn Series

Advance CTE held a five-part Lunch & Learn series focused on exploring each of the principles from CTE Without Limits. Each session actively engaged participants to deepen their understanding of the aspiration of one of the vision principles. Speakers – including leading voices from K-12, postsecondary and adult education, workforce and industry, philanthropy, and non-profit vision supporters – shared insights and lead discussions that ensured participants are inspired to craft actionable next steps to turn this vision into reality.