ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career - The Toolkit

 Creating and Managing CTE at Your School: Organizing time, space, staff, and resources

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Actions States Can Take to Place a Highly Qualified Career/Technical Teacher in Every ClassroomG. Bottoms and K. McNally, SREB, 2005

This report, available on the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) website, presents actions that states can take to get a highly qualified CTE teacher in every CTE classroom. Throughout the report, best practices from various states are highlighted, as are current practices in career/technical teacher academic preparation and certification state by state.

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The National Centers for Career and Technical Education: High-Quality Career Technical/Workforce Education Teachers

This online interactive resource provides examples of teacher quality models and criteria and frameworks that states and districts are using to define, recruit, develop, and retain high-quality teachers. Website visitors are able to search for High-Quality Career Technical/Workforce Education Teachers resources by state, initiative, and tools/strategy.

http://www.nccte.org/tqi/
National Clearinghouse for Education Facilities

This website provides a comprehensive list of resources, including links, books, and journal articles on CTE classrooms and facilities.

http://www.edfacilities.org/rl/tech_ed.cfm
Scheduling Guide for Small Learning Communities/Career Academies

Available on the Career Academy Support Network website, this report recognizes a key change in school infrastructure that needs to be made as schools create small learning communities and/or career academies. It recommends a planning process and time frame so that schools can successfully make their transition to a new schedule, outlines scheduling construction including possible constraints and conflicts, and provides scheduling software options.

http://casn.berkeley.edu/resources/scheduling_guide.html