Initiatives
Initiatives
Our initiatives connect national partners with state leaders to support high-quality Career Technical Education (CTE) policy at the federal and state levels; empower our members to be effective CTE leaders through technical assistance, professional development and professional networking; share best practices and innovative models; and promote high-quality CTE throughout the country.
Achieving an equitable, inclusive and high-quality CTE system is an ongoing journey of development, reflection and continued growth. Advance CTE recognizes each individual’s equity journey is different. For every step of this journey, Advance CTE is committed to supporting systems to more equitably serve learners by equipping leaders with equity-centered tools and resources, empowering leaders to implement equitable policies and practices and elevating promising equitable initiatives across the country.
The National Career Clusters Framework provides a vital structure for organizing and delivering quality CTE programs through learning and comprehensive programs of study.
CTE Without Borders supports states in actualizing Advance CTE’s vision for Principle 5: Each learner can access CTE without borders in CTE Without Limits by developing in-state and inter-state agreements that remove barriers and advance policies and programs to expand access to high-quality CTE and work-based learning.
To drive system-level change, Advance CTE has joined forces with four other leading national organizations in the college and career pathways movement. This initiative aims to strengthen existing efforts to provide high-quality and equitable pathways at scale and push the field toward innovative strategies and solutions for every learner to have access to and succeed in high-quality and equitable pathways across 11 states and over 30 communities.
Advance CTE serves as a leading national voice in supporting Career Technical Education leaders to effectively communicate the value of CTE to learners and families and build statewide practice to support equitable recruitment into CTE programs.
The New Skills ready network works with comprehensive partnerships across six sites to strengthen the alignment and rigor of career pathways, improve pathways, expand real-world work experiences, build seamless transitions to postsecondary success and close equity gaps.
The Postsecondary State Career Technical Education Leaders Fellowship strives to address the growing shortage of state postsecondary CTE leadership by closing racial representation gaps and removing equity barriers to leadership advancement.
The Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship supports state and local apprenticeship intermediaries and systems to achieve youth apprenticeship at scale with seamless connections to the larger, cohesive work-based learning ecosystem designed with quality and equity and the forefront.
Achieving an equitable, inclusive and high-quality CTE system is an ongoing journey of development, reflection and continued growth. Advance CTE recognizes each individual’s equity journey is different. For every step of this journey, Advance CTE is committed to supporting systems to more equitably serve learners by equipping leaders with equity-centered tools and resources, empowering leaders to implement equitable policies and practices and elevating promising equitable initiatives across the country.
Equitable and Inclusive CTE
Advance CTE is committed to equipping state leaders with knowledge and resources to achieve a high-quality, diverse, inclusive, accessible and equitable career preparation ecosystem. In pursuit of this goal, Advance CTE supports a range of initiatives that promote equity in CTE to ensure that our systems are designed for all learners to access, feel welcome in, fully participate in and successfully complete a high-quality CTE program of study.
Excellence in Action Awards
Advance CTE’s Excellence in Action awards program recognizes and honors superior CTE programs of study from across all 50 states and territories.
