Webinars

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Webinars

Advance CTE hosts webinars on a variety of topics and pressing issues of interest to the CTE community. These webinars bring Advance CTE staff together with leading experts from across the nation to share their expertise on issues including policy, research and best practices.

Recent Webinars

August 17, 2021
CTE Without Limits Lunch & Learn #4: Each learner’s skills are counted, valued, and portable

This session was the fourth in Advance CTE’s Lunch & Learn series focused on exploring each of the principles from Without Limits: A Shared Vision for the Future of Career Technical Education. Attendees will be introduced to the fourth principle of the vision, “Each learner’s skills are counted, valued, and portable” and the roles of secondary, postsecondary and workforce systems in accomplishing this principle.

July 27, 2021
CTE Without Limits Lunch & Learn #3: Each learner skillfully navigates their own career journey

This session was the third in Advance CTE’s Lunch & Learn series focused on exploring each of the principles from Without Limits: A Shared Vision for the Future of Career Technical Education. Attendees were introduced to the third principle of the vision, “each learner engages in a cohesive, flexible and responsive career preparation ecosystem”. Attendees had the chance to discuss this principle in small groups and will leave this session with an increased awareness of the aspirations of this principle and strategies to apply it to their own work.
 

June 22, 2021
CTE Without Limits Lunch & Learn #2: Each learner feels welcome in, is supported by, and has the means to succeed in the career preparation ecosystem

This session was the second in Advance CTE’s Lunch & Learn series focused on exploring each of the principles from Without Limits: A Shared Vision for the Future of Career Technical Education. Attendees were introduced to the second principle of the vision, “each learner feels welcome in, is supported by, and has the means to succeed in the career preparation ecosystem.” Vision partners and supporters shared the ways that their organizations are identifying and dismantling the institutional and systemic barriers that limit access, opportunity and outcomes for some learners.

June 01, 2021
CTE Without Limits Lunch and Learn #1: Creating a cohesive, flexible and responsive career preparation ecosystem

Attendees were introduced to the first principle of the vision, “each learner engages in a cohesive, flexible and responsive career preparation ecosystem” and the roles of secondary and postsecondary education systems in accomplishing this principle. Attendees left this session with an increased awareness of the aspirations of this principle and strategies to apply it to their own work.

April 29, 2021
Research Update: Results of a National Survey on How to Communicate the Value of CTE with Families

Despite the many benefits for learners, Career Technical Educations (CTE) is still often seen as a program that is ‘less than’ a more traditional academic experience. Advance CTE hosted a webinar to share new research on how to communicate with learners and their guardians about CTE programs to combat long-held misconceptions on CTE. Building on research released in 2017, Advance CTE conducted a series of focus groups and a national survey of nearly 2,000 learners and guardians to understand their motivations and barriers to enrolling in CTE programs.

March 04, 2021
Strengthening the Career Readiness Data Ecosystem: Introducing A Statewide Framework for Improving Policy and Practice

Data is a powerful tool to strengthen Career Technical Education (CTE) program quality, improve equity, empower stakeholders and enhance storytelling. But all too often, state agencies struggle to connect learner-level data across education levels and coordinate data collection and reporting to ensure all stakeholders have access to the information they need when they need it. In this session, Advance CTE introduced a new framework to help state leaders strengthen their career readiness data ecosystem.

March 02, 2021
State Policies Impacting CTE: 2020 Year in Review

In this review of state-level policy for 2020, participants heard trends for the 2020 policy landscape, including top policy categories and examples for each. After a presentation of findings, state and local leaders shared examples of policy and impacts from their state, as well as potential trends for 2021.

January 28, 2021
Beyond the Numbers: Strategies for Effectively Reporting and Communicating CTE Data

Presented in the right way, data can be a powerful tool to support access to high-quality CTE and prepare learners for economic success during COVID-19 and beyond. But how can state leaders translate data into relevant insights and present information in a way that is understandable and actionable to key audiences? In this session, participants learned design principles for CTE data reporting and strategies for communicating data effectively.

January 13, 2021
CTE and Equity: The work of intentionally embedding equity in CTE programming

Attendees learned from a panel of state administrators about the paths they took to determine the development of their equity priorities within their Perkins V plans, including funding mechanisms for identified equity gaps, prioritization of specific goals and how the goals are implemented within post-secondary and secondary settings. The Q&A portion of this webinar is transcribed and viewable here.

December 10, 2020
The Vital Role of Postsecondary Institutions in Economic Recovery
State leaders play a critical role in developing, implementing and promoting policies and strategies to ensure Career Technical Education (CTE) is responsive to the needs of learners and the economy. Now, more than ever, CTE is vital to helping in our national response to COVID-19 by ensuring there is a strong talent pipeline for skilled workers in industries such as health care, transportation and manufacturing. CTE is also essential to economic recovery and upskilling of reskilling for those who have been dislocated.