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CTE is Your STEM Strategy

  • Case Study
  • Guide/Tool
December 2013 —

This paper from Advance CTE explores the connection and overlap between CTE and STEM education. States can use this resource to help identify connections, to learn from other state strategies, and to develop their own strategies to connect STEM and CTE in their policy, practice and rhetoric.

Career Readiness Stakeholder Engagement Tool

  • Guide/Tool
March 2017 —

This tool from Advance CTE is based off of two tools created by the Council of Chief State School Officers. It is designed to guide users through nine steps in planning effective interactions with specific stakeholders.

The Value and Promise of Career Technical Education: Results from a National Survey of Parents and Students

  • Research/ Report
April 2017 —

This report from Advance CTE draws on national survey data to explore the attitudes of parents and students currently involved in CTE, as well as prospective  CTE parents and students, to better understand the promise and opportunity of CTE.

The State of Career Technical Education: Employer Engagement in CTE

  • Research/ Report
December 2014 —

This report from Advance CTE examines the employer engagement landscape with a particular focus on the ways in which states can foster and sustain meaningful employer engagement to strengthen their CTE system for all students through policy and practice.

Your Role in Putting Learner Success First: Local Self-Assessment

  • Guide/Tool
May 2017 —

This downloadable tool from Advance CTE draws on the five principles of Putting Learner Success First: A Shared Vision for the Future of CTE to help local CTE leaders and practitioners understand how they can begin to implement the vision’s principles and actions. 

Defining High-quality CTE: Quality CTE Program of Study Framework, Version 4.0 (Beta)

  • Guide/Tool
March 2017 —

This resource from ACTE provides a blueprint for designing and implementing high-quality programs of study. The framework can be used to evaluate and improve local programs of study.

Endorsements, Electives & More: CTE & State Graduation Requirements

  • Case Study
April 2015 —

This Advance CTE brief explores common approaches to offering or requiring CTE courses and assessments within a statewide set of graduation requirements, offers illustrative examples of state-level policies and elevates implementation issues for consideration.

In Their Words: Why Business Leaders Support CTE, Career Pathways and Career Academies

  • Case Study
November 2016 —

This brief, from Advance CTE and Ford Next Generation Learning, is the outcome of two roundtables held with business leaders in Nashville and Pinellas County to explore why and how they support CTE in their communities, and offers recommendations based on their successful engagement.

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The Learning that Works Resource Center was developed through the New Skills for Youth initiative, a partnership of the Council of Chief State School Officers, Advance CTE and the Education Strategy Group, generously funded by JPMorgan Chase & Co