Today, Advance CTE is excited to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of Putting Learner Success First: A Shared Vision for the Future of CTE, which establishes a bold vision for all of education that includes, but is not limited to Career Technical Education (CTE).
The vision calls for a systemic transformation of the education system, and identifies CTE strengths and role in this transformation. It challenges our community to continue on the path of fierce dedication to quality and equity, while providing the leadership necessary to continue to re-examine, grow and transform CTE into a system that truly prepares all students for a lifetime of success.
Over the past year, national, state and local leaders have taken up the charge and begun to integrate the vision into their work and communities, from aligning their strategic plans to the vision principles to leveraging the vision to engage many critical stakeholders around the promise of CTE. We are thrilled to celebrate a number of successes including:

• Five more national organizations have committed to the vision, for a total of 12,
• Nearly half of states have supported the vision through presentations, cross walking vision principles with strategic plans, and sharing it with critical stakeholders,
• Advance CTE has presented the vision on webinars, and at numerous state and national conferences across the country,
• 41 states are represented in the Putting Learner Success First sign-on campaign, which you can sign onto here!

In addition, we have a number of new resources to share including a new vision video, that envisions a world where all vision principles are enacted.

We have continued to develop resources and materials to help you better communicate about, and integrate the vision in your work including:

• NEW: Unpacking Putting Learner Success First: State Self-Assessment is a downloadable tool that helps state leaders reflect on the progress their states have made and where progress is most needed, using the vision’s principles and actions as a benchmark. 
• NEW: Unpacking Putting Learner Success First: Local Self-Assessment is a downloadable tool to help local CTE leaders and practitioners understand how they can begin to implement the vision’s principles and actions in their own classrooms, schools, institutions or systems. 
• Tips for sharing Putting Learner Success First
• PowerPoint slides and aligned talking points
• Leave behind fact sheet
• The Shared Vision & State CTE Leaders
• The Shared Vision & CTE Educators (with Association for Career and Technical Education)
• The Shared Vision & Industry Leaders (with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation)
• The Shared Vision & Postsecondary Leaders (with National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges)

Katie Fitzgerald, Senior Associate, Communications