How To Celebrate and Promote Career and Technical Education All Year Long!

• Display the 2016 logo in your classroom and hallways. This is a great way to engage in conversation about Career and Technical Education! 
• Plan to teach a career unit in Home and Career Skills and FACS courses in the first part of the spring semester. Focus on CTE and the new Multiple Pathways available. 
• Invite high school students enrolled in CTE programs to talk about their career pathway with students in your Home and Career Skills courses.
• Assign students to complete a career investigation and display their posters in the hallways to highlight FACS/CTE career pathways.
• Advocate for CTE and your program by sharing stories of your students' success with your principal, school board and local community.
  
• If your school has a Facebook page, post highlights of the CTE Month events in your classroom and at your school
• If your school has a Twitter page, tweet about the CTE Month events in your classroom and at your school
• Arrange to make presentations at various clubs and organization on the value of partnerships with CTE
• Make a video profiling successful alumni and where they work
• Write a blog and submit it to your administration to post on your school website
• Have your students create banners and posters featuring CTE Month and decorate your school
• Have your students plan an activity for an open house for parents and guardians at your school
• Attach a CTE Month announcement flyer to minutes or newsletters of organizations
• Make room for an exhibit in your school featuring CTE Month activities
• Use a special message promoting CTE Month in the morning school announcements and when answering your telephones
• Post electronic announcements to your school website, marquee, and bulletin boards
• Distribute copies of public relations materials to your teachers
• Recognize your CTE teachers and student organization

Career and Technical Education Information Resources

• What Is Career and Technical Education? - infographic
• Common Career Technical Core Standards       
• CTE Strong Economy Fact Sheet 
• CTE Works!
• CTE Today Fact Sheet 
• What is Career and Technical Education?  factsheet
• CTE and Dropout Prevention
• FACS and CTE  - For a more thorough understanding of the FACS / CTE connection, watch this Knovio presentation created last year by Connie Costley, NYSAFCSE Past President and NYSACTE President. 
• Career Clusters
  
  

Career and Technical Education Program Approval

Program Approval Process and Implementation Guide
CTE Programs Approved - (by subject area)
CTE Programs Approved - (by area of state)