Root Causes and Strategies All Root Causes Nontraditional Career Preparation Nontraditional Career Preparation: Root Causes & Strategies is a literature review organized into research theories, evidence, recommendations and strategies, and effective practice and resources based upon root causes. It is designed to be used by CTE professionals at secondary and

What is Perkins?Perkins is the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act, whose purpose is to develop more fully the academic, career, and technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students enrolled in CTE programs. What is CTE?CTE is an abbreviation for Career and Technical Education, which is sometimes

 2013 Rising Star Award Dr. Lakshmi Mahadevan is a Rising Star whose journey began halfway around the world. Dr. Mahadevan left India on her own and came to the United States to pursue her education, eventually earning degrees in both Special Education and Career Development Education. Because making a direct

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Micromessaging to Reach and Teach Every Student™ Summary Micromessaging to Reach and Teach Every Student™ is a research-based, professional development program to increase educators’ awareness and understanding of the effect subtle messages and unconscious bias can have on student learning, participation, persistence, and engagement. This unique program provides participants with

PIPEline to Career Success for Students with Disabilities Colorado Department of Education PIPEline Showcase Social Media Kit The Colorado Department of Education PIPEline to Career for Success for Students with Disabilities engages teams in long-term and sustainable improvement processes through NAPE’s Program Improvement Process for Equity™ (PIPE) framework, focusing on

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This new adaptation of NAPE’s Program Improvement Process for Equity™, a proven, multi-year professional development and technical assistance program model, will bring diverse district-based teams together to research, analyze, and determine participation and performance gap root causes for students with disabilities in career pathways. The U.S. Department of Labor (2017)

Make the Future™, Connecting Girls to Manufacturing Create Effective Messages Connect with Your Audience Use Effective Strategies Microsite for Girls Make the Future™, Connecting Girls to Manufacturing  aims to encourage women and girls, especially those of color, to take part in STEM education and pursue advanced manufacturing careers. Video https://youtu.be/tEaX2UhVF-IHear

Equity Leadership Academy for States Building Capacity to Implement and Support the Postsecondary Comprehensive Local Needs Assessment and Local Application under Perkins V What is the Equity Leadership Academy for States? The Equity Leadership Academy for States brings together state leaders, community college faculty and staff, and, most importantly, students

Accountability Data Dashboards Borrowing from the world of business intelligence, NAPE has developed data dashboards to assist state and local education agencies in making their data understandable, meaningful, and actionable. These dashboards can be used to compare enrollment of concentrators in CTE programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels, disaggregated