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Preparing for Employment: Trends in Human Resources for Educators
Posted Apr 5, 2022 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Priorities in K-12 Learning for 2022: How Simulation Can Help
Posted Mar 3, 2022 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Incorporating Diversity into CTE Instructional Materials
Posted Sep 23, 2021 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Preparing Students for Today’s Jobs Requires Close Collaboration Between Higher Education Institutions, Employers, and Industry
Our nation was experiencing critical workforce shortages before COVID-19, and large numbers of workers in low-wage jobs were struggling to improve their financial outcomes. According to The Conference Board Labor Shortage Solutions Survey, 85% of companies in “mostly blue-collar industries” reported recruiting difficulties, and 64% of companies in “mostly white-collar... Continue reading
Posted Jun 23, 2021 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Exposure to Advanced Manufacturing Careers
Posted Mar 11, 2020 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Solving Workforce Challenges and Raising Awareness
Posted Feb 26, 2020 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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A Rookie Reacts to His First CareerTech VISION
Last month, Chmura Economics attended our first ACTE CareerTech VISION conference. We were blow away by one of the best conference experiences we have ever had. What made our VISION experience so special were the educators who attended. We could not believe the enthusiasm and curiosity of everyone we met.... Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2020 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Redesigning our CTE Teacher Academy Model: Preparing students for the future educator workforce
Future Teachers of America (FTA) was established in 1936 by the National Education Association. Today, the organization is called Educators Rising and housed under Phi Delta Kappa International. At first, Future Teachers of America clubs functioned as substitute-reserves for local school districts (yes, high schoolers would assume a substitute role... Continue reading
Posted Nov 18, 2019 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Perkins V As Opportunity
By this point, we are all living in a Perkins V world. Here at Chmura, much of our focus has been on how we can help educators with our unparalleled local labor market data and with a positive, productive experience with the Comprehensive Local Needs Assessment (CLNA). We support colleges... Continue reading
Posted Nov 12, 2019 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Get Your Kids to Work with Labor Data
No academic discipline is more centered around a student’s future career prospects than CTE, so labor market data is essential to a CTE educator’s success. One cannot help a student pick the right career without first knowing the shape of the workforce that student will enter. Yet the world of... Continue reading
Posted Oct 15, 2019 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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From a Maker Fair to a Fab Lab: Industry partnerships help Western Wisconsin CTE students develop in-demand skills
Last month, we introduced a Western Wisconsin CTE program whose shift towards project-based learning led to the development of a Fab Lab – and in turn, increased student engagement across all grade levels. Below, we continue the article with discussion of the industry partnerships that are helping keep the program... Continue reading
Posted Oct 9, 2019 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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From a Maker Fair to a Fab Lab: How a Western Wisconsin school district is helping students develop in-demand skills
Written by: Timm Boettcher, Realityworks, Inc. Timm Boettcher is the President and CEO of Realityworks, Inc., an education company that creates innovative learning tools for skills training. Passionate about the benefits of education-industry collaboration, Timm also chairs the Industry Workforce Needs Coalition, serves on the Board of Directors for Association... Continue reading
Posted Sep 10, 2019 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Industry Connect is on hiatus over the summer. We will re-initiate after Labor Day
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Posted Jun 14, 2019 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Beware of Cultural Sand Traps in School-Business Partnerships
There is a widely used cross-cultural simulation called BaFa BaFa in which participants are randomly assigned to be touchy-feely go with the flow alphas or organized, rule oriented betas. Within an hour, you can see people taking on the attributes of their assigned culture and even feeling unnerved when sent... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2019 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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State Funding Enables Community Programs to Give MN High School Students Valuable Job Training Opportunities
In January, five community programs throughout the state of Minnesota were awarded $95,000 in grant funding to develop and implement paid learning opportunities for 16- and 17-year-old students. The funding came from the Youth Skills Training Program at the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (YST@DLI), which was created in... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2019 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Closing the Skills Gap Through the East Community Learning Center Automotive Technology Center
Posted Apr 9, 2019 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Coding Grant Helps North Carolina Students Explore In-Demand Career Options
In Beaufort County, North Carolina, programmers are in high demand. Job forecasts conducted by local workforce development boards show a 94% growth rate for programming jobs among 27 eastern NC counties from 2016-2021; programming skills, along with tooling, machine and drone operation skills, have been among the most in-demand job... Continue reading
Posted Mar 12, 2019 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Certifying a Skilled Workforce for a Global Exonomy
Posted Jan 14, 2019 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Vortex Simulators Help Houston High School Prepare Students for Construction Careers
Posted Jan 3, 2019 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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State Career and Technical Education Policies Hard at Work: A Series of Success Stories
For Career & Technical Education programs to succeed, collaboration between business and education must occur. As President & CEO of Realityworks, Inc, I’ve seen firsthand the impact of successful partnerships: Not only do students learn valuable academic, technical and employability skills, but they do so through relevant, workforce-driven programs that... Continue reading
Posted Nov 19, 2018 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Career Crossover: How CTE Training Equips Students for Health Services Careers
As students settle in for their midterms, many are considering their career pathways in the courses they’re taking and are likely headed home to conversations about their futures. What career are they interested in pursuing? Given that career field and the related occupations, what would be the best post-secondary path... Continue reading
Posted Nov 12, 2018 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Rhinestahl & Butler Tech Partnership – Making a difference one student at a time.
For 40 over years, Butler Tech (BT), Fairfield Township, Ohio, has been educating students in career tech education. For over 50 years, Rhinestahl AMG has been manufacturing high tolerance parts for aviation, space, defense and transportation industries. In 2016, they came together to start to close the skill gap in... Continue reading
Posted Oct 16, 2018 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Soldiers on the Cutting Edge of Culinary Excellence
Growing faster than the average for all occupations, culinary arts jobs are projected to grow 10 percent starting from 2016-2026. So, what has caused the recent demand for skilled labor in culinary arts careers? First and foremost, people like to eat. The other, less obvious reason is that many chefs... Continue reading
Posted Oct 2, 2018 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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Planes, Trains and Rockets? – Today’s Manufacturing
Today’s manufacturing industry will have you believing you’re a part of The Jetsons’ futuristic life. The Falcon 9 Rocket launched seven satellites at the same time, GE will build engines with 3D printed parts, and SpaceX Hyperloop pods will take you from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 45 minutes.... Continue reading
Posted Sep 24, 2018 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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ROTC through a Cadet’s Eyes
Posted Aug 28, 2018 at ACTE's Industry Connect Blog
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