2024 Advance CTE Fall Meeting

The modernized National Career Clusters Framework offers opportunities to further modernize CTE systems by encouraging more interdisciplinary and interconnected CTE programs of study and experiences across learner levels. These ideation sessions will offer a space for participants to engage in collaborative thinking and problem solving to help move the needle on key policies, practices, and partnerships to jumpstart the adoption and implementation of the newly released Career Clusters Framework.

CTE Without Limits, the national vision for Career Technical Education, calls for a career preparation ecosystem that aligns statewide goals with career pathways across learner levels. When state and local leaders shift systems and mindsets from “college or career readiness” to “college AND career readiness," four-year institutions can be an integrated stop on a longer pathway to career success for all learners, rather than a siloed and separate path for some. 

Whether through transfer and articulation, ReConnect grants, short-term credentialing or applied bachelor’s degrees, four-year institutions remain integral to high-quality career pathways systems beyond the traditional degree pathway. Join a panel of state and national leaders in this space to hear how to better engage and connect four year institutions in an aligned career preparation ecosystem.

Learning objectives

• Understand the policy and funding levers needed to drive better alignment between and across postsecondary institutions
• Develop practical strategies for statewide goal alignment
• Foster a spirit of collaboration of the needs of different learner levels to drive better connectivity

Teamwork across and beyond state agencies gives CTE leaders high-quality, actionable data to propel all learners to success. State leaders from Nebraska will share their successes and lessons learned connecting multiple stakeholders across sectors to achieve a vision and implementation plan for a statewide workplace experiences portal. Participants will learn practical strategies to cultivate a data-driven culture and the essential teamwork needed to drive impactful, informed decisions in career and technical education.

Learning objectives:

• Elevate the importance of culture in the process of data-informed decision-making.
• Elevate states that have used culture effectively to increase data quality.
• Empower participants to have collaborative conversations with peers.
• Equip participants with Advance CTE resources connected to culture and data quality.