The Association for Career and Technical Education is the largest national education association dedicated to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for careers. Its website provides information on all of ACTE’s professional development programs, conferences and conventions, publications, a career center, and a comprehensive resource center.

Maintained by the state of California, this website is designed to distribute career information, resources, and training materials to K–12 counselors, educators, and administrators. It includes a variety of tools that help students identify potential careers and provides guidance and instruction on the education and training necessary to enter various career pathways.

The California Department of Education’s Career Technical Education website provides visitors with links to information on specific career clusters, as well as links to information on apprenticeships, school-to-career education, Perkins, Regional Occupational Centers and Programs, student organizations, tech-prep, standards and frameworks, and workforce development.

Funded by the California Department of Education, the CA Industrial Technology Education (ITE) Consortium offers professional workshops and presentations to enhance educator development and leadership. This website provides ITE standards—and curricula (Integrated Performance Activities) that address those standards—for construction and building trades, energy and utilities, engineering and design, manufacturing and product development, and transportation.

This website contains a brief that outlines the changes that have taken place in CTE in California from the early 1990s to the present.

This website for the National Tech Prep Network (NTPN), a membership organization founded by CORD, provides resources for tech-prep professionals. It offers information on NTPN’s conferences, state tech-prep coordinators, legislation, and exemplary tech-prep sites.

The Peer Collaborative Resource Network (PCRN) is “an internet-based forum that supports state-to-state communication, peer review, and resource sharing for improving state Perkins III accountability systems.” This website allows states to access core indicator frameworks for establishing accountability systems for vocational and technical education, as well as state measures, measurement approaches, and the overall quality of state data.

Part of the National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical Education Consortium website, this online map provides links to summaries of each state’s CTE information. Summaries include information about the state director, CTE statistics, state governance structure, funding, and career clusters.

Supported by the Vocational Information Center, this website provides links to state resources for CTE, career clusters, tech-prep, adult education, and workforce development programs. Resources are arranged by state.