Exploring the relationship between innovation and technical education can be a challenge when looking from the inside. How do we know what innovation looks like, besides thinking it is happening? This session looks at the structures, levers, and lenses that can help you challenge your assumptions about how a high-quality innovative CTE environment can look in action.
Through evaluating program design or redesign, attendees will learn how a new career center leveraged a single cross-cutting pathway model for 400+ students to launch at full capacity and create a new lens on innovation, workforce development, and economic mobility in its community. Attendees will explore how this approach opens the door for students to connect with all career clusters at varying degrees of specialty, as well as high leverage industry agnostic strategies to unlock innovation through technical education.
