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2010 ACTE Convention & Career Tech Expo

 

Mark your calendar today for the best professional development event of the year, December 2-4 in Las Vegas. Registration is now open (print form). See below for hotel reservations.

Interested in exhibiting at the Career Tech Expo? Information is available here.

 

General Session Speakers

CTE is pleased to announce Matthew B. Crawford as a keynote speaker for its 2010 Annual Convention, December 2-4.

Philosopher and mechanic Matthew B. Crawford brings to life the experience of making things with your hands, a reality that is receding from our current society. As an author of the New York Times best-selling book Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, Crawford restored the honor of manual trades as a life worth choosing. As a speaker, Crawford mixes his dark humor with philosophy to consider how our economic choices form us, questioning the modern workplace, consumerism and technology. More information on is available at

www.matthewbcrawford.com.


 

 

 

 

 

Day of Service

Home Builders Institute logoACTE is proud to announce that, in partnership with the Home Builders Institute and Habitat for Humanity, attendees at this year’s ACTE Annual Convention and Career Tech Expo will be able to participate in the Association’s first-ever Day of Service.

The event will occur on Saturday, December 4, in the afternoon, when registered attendees will assist Habitat for Humanity in building homes for needy families in Clark County. HBI’s generous support of this event will provide participant meals and transportation.

Convention attendees interested in participating in this event can register by completing the Convention

registration form (print form) and indicating their interest. They can also do so by calling ACTE at 800-826-9972. Those wishing to participate will need to be in Las Vegas through 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 4, 2010. Space is limited, so please only register if you are committed to participating.

If you have any questions, please call ACTE at 800-826-9972.

Pre-Convention Tours

Industry Tours
See how the companies for which you prepare your students operate and rely on a trained workforce.

Switch | NAP
Affectionately called the "Fort Knox of Data,"

Switch | NAP is the world's most powerful data center, combined with industry-changing telecommunications pricing. It is located in the safest-rated city in America and protected by the highest levels of physical security. It is home to data for such multi-billion-dollar tech giants as Google, Disney Animations and Sony, and numerous financial giants, such as the FDIC and the Federal Reserve. This tour is seriously mind-blowing. 1:30-4:30 p.m. Photo ID required.

Zappos.com
This tour allows you to experience the culture that is

Zappos.com. The founder's original idea was to create a Web site that offered the absolute best selection in shoes in terms of brands, styles, colors, sizes and widths. Over the past nine years, the Zappos.com brand and their aspirations have evolved and, in addition to offering the best selection, they now want to be the company that provides the absolute best service online—not just in shoes, but in any category. They have been voted the #1 company in America to work for. 1:30-4:30 p.m.

School Tours
Pick the brains of your colleagues and see their best practices in action.

Veterans Tribute and Southwest Career and Technical Academies
Visit two schools that opened in 2009. Tour

Veterans Tribute first and see how they integrate rigorous coursework into preparing students for careers in public service, including law enforcement, crime scene analysis, EMT and computer forensics. Enjoy lunch provided by Southwest’s culinary students, then tour their 11 programs under the Design Academy and the Professional Service Academy. Observe how Southwest utilizes project-based learning activities to prepare students for the workforce. This dual tour begins at 8:00 a.m. and concludes at 2:00 p.m.

Pre-Convention Sessions

How to Be Enrollment- and Retention-rich With Millennials
Stop being a “best-kept secret” and start maximizing enrollment. Career and technical education and retention expert Mark C. Perna will share the secrets to significantly increasing enrollment, retention and graduation rates. These decisive and timely strategies will help you retain students through consistent engagement and relationship-building, make the most of your existing organizational and financial resources and proactively shape community awareness and opinion. Perna is the founder of Tools for Schools, a full-service marketing and consulting firm specializing in the career and technical education field.

This session will be held Wednesday, December 1, from 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Designing High-quality Career and Technical Courses That Contribute to Whole School Improvement
This full-day pre-Convention session will focus on designing career technical courses that engage students around challenging authentic workplace assignment and assessments in which they develop 21st-century skills related to teamwork, accountability and problem solving. Learn strategies for embedding the academic skills necessary to meet the demands if a complex, technology-based economy. This session will provide specific strategies that career and technical educators can use to increase the quality of their courses, contribute to the overall improvement of high schools and boost school-wide student achievement.

This session will be held Wednesday, December 1, from 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. and is put on by High Schools That Work.

Partners, Partners, Partners

Much of the success of last year's Convention was due to the content-provider partnerships ACTE established. Those will continue in Las Vegas. To date, ACTE has secured the support of: