Educational Resources

Headline: Replace "see one, do one" with a four-step teach for novice CTE learners The first week of fall classes is when bad habits get set. In welding bays, clinical…

The problem: your grading system is measuring the wrong thing A student turns in every worksheet, shows up on time, and still can't produce a structurally sound weld. Another student…

The problem instructors keep running into Durable skills — communication, collaboration, critical thinking, problem-solving, leadership, adaptability — keep getting dropped from CTE instruction. Not because instructors don't care about them,…

A new pedagogical framework is making the rounds in CTE policy circles — and for the first time, it offers CTE instructors a concrete, three-part model for integrating AI into…

The first week of a CTE course should do more than cover rules, pass out forms, and point students toward the tool room. It should build the operating system for the semester.

It is mid-July. The hallways are still empty, the dust has settled on the band saws, and somewhere in your building an autoclave, MIG welder, CNC mill, or commercial gas…

In a welding booth at Swenson Arts and Technology High School in Northeast Philadelphia, a buzzing smartphone is not just a distraction — it is a safety hazard. When a…

Originally reported by Digital Promise | PhillyCTE --- When a pre-apprentice at Philadelphia's Electrical Training Center wires a commercial building downtown, the electrical code they follow is national — but…

Originally reported by PBLWorks | PhillyCTE --- When HVAC pre-apprentices at Philadelphia's Career and Technical Education programs keep failing the Section 608 refrigerant handling certification exam, CTE instructors don't just…