Administering High-Quality CTE Programs | Origin: HQ104
This is a general discussion forum for the following learning topic:
CTE High-Quality Framework: Prepared and Effective Program Staff --> Administering High-Quality CTE Programs
Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. Feel free to post questions and comments too.
The ACTE framework is the first thing I've seen that actually gives me a ruler. Twelve elements, 92 criteria, and a self-eval that forces me to be honest instead of going off feel. That's useful.
The other thing that landed: staff don't get a say in the district vision. So whether they buy in is basically on me. I hadn't said that out loud before, but it's true.
So my plan is simple. Run every METT pathway through that ACTE tool. Stop trusting my gut. Use those 12 elements as the spine for summer curriculum work, so teachers and I are looking at the same map. And stop treating procurement, funding, credential stuff as side work—they're part of quality, full stop.
I've been running quality on instinct. Time to run it on paper everyone can see.
A manager at any level, includinga CTE ADmin, must first underatnd the jobs of those whom they mange. In addition, they must also be able to navigate the funding from Perkins, federal, state, and district.
I have learned about the many resources available to CTE administrators from mentoring to how to plan for teacher PD.
