Oregon ACTE Spring Newsletter

It was great to see over 500 of you in Bend recently! The Oregon ACTE Board was happy to see teachers, leaders, industry, community college partners, state CTE leadership, and vendors at our successful conference. We will be looking at feedback that was written on the app to work to make our next conference great as well. Thank you to all who came, presented, learned, connected, and enjoyed! We will be planning even more ways to connect, advocate for, and build CTE to be even stronger in Oregon!

Here is what one attendee said:

"I have felt alone, out of touch with my colleagues at the High School, and unsure about how to get training to advance my practice....there was not a single BAD session! I filled up roughly 15 pages with ideas, phone numbers, emails, resource links, and other things to make my class and program better."

"I feel now like I'm supported by a vast network of others that are also doing that same work that I am. I feel like that work that I do really does make a difference."

This is what we hope for, and why we do what we do!

Redmond write-up about ACTE award winners:

https://ktvz.com/news/redmond/2023/04/14/two-redmond-career-and-technical-education-teachers-are-honored-as-oregons-best/

Thanks in part to the huge response to our conference this year, Oregon ACTE was able to give away TEN, $1,000 scholarships! Here are the winners:

Katherine Carney, Rogue Community College

Seth Landolt, Tillamook High School

Ellie Trujillo, Mt. Hood Community College

Jordan Maertens, Clatskanie High School

Lucia Peraza, Cascade HS/Willamette Career Academy

Amara Theros, Hermiston High School

Jaden Boland, Silverton High School

Cayden Cormany, Homeschool (Corvallis Leadership and Common Wealth)

Jared Medearis, Clackamas Community College

Isabella Brown, Cleveland High School

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y72Vx3VKkH3waBBRKX-K6sYhTwxhki9RCKuzknasmYc/edit#gid=0

High schools pitch in to help county build transitional housing for unhoused:

https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/education/2022/08/27/lane-county-high-schools-build-transitional-housing-homeless-shelter-everyone-village-eugene-homes/65418012007/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

UCC EMT air ambulance training:

https://www.nrtoday.com/news/education/ucc-emergency-medical-students-to-conduct-air-ambulance-training/article_865095c2-dfca-11ed-85b1-d74694ac9aea.html

No Local Butchering? North Lake Decides To Train Students:

https://www.osba.org/no-local-butchering-north-lake-decides-to-train-students/

Thirteen Hermiston FBLA students qualify for nationals:

https://www.eastoregonian.com/community/news/thirteen-hermiston-fbla-students-qualify-for-nationals/article_c8f90674-e2ac-5f3e-bf81-ca4ded15c7a3.html#:~:text=Thirteen%20Hermiston%20FBLA%20students%20qualify%20for%20nationals