February 2022

Your Connection to Excellence in CTE

Student Edition

Last month, we asked you all to send us your plans for CTE Month and we received over 100 responses from all across the country! 

Here are some of our favorites: 

NTHS MARCH MADNESS BRACKET

We want to see all of the awesome activities that our NTHS chapters are doing to celebrate CTE Month! Use the form below to submit photos and be entered into our CTE March Madness Bracket! We'll be spotlighting all entries and then our social media followers will decide which CTE Month activities are the best! 

CTE MONTH CALENDAR

Check out this calendar to see which week to celebrate the CTSOs at your school!

Awarding someone with an Honorary NTHS Membership is a great way to thank them and bring awareness to CTE, your chapter, and your programs.

 

Honorary Members receive a custom certificate, frame, an honorary membership pin, and a letter of congratulations from our Executive Director!

 

To recognize an Honorary Member in your community during CTE month, ask your NTHS advisor to log in to the advisor portal and click on "Register Honorary Members"

 

You can recognize:

• Industry Partners
• Teachers
• Community Leaders
• Administrators
• Local Businesses
• Parents
• Education and Government Leaders
• And more!

Brad Rothell has been in education for 34 years, and began serving as an NTHS advisor 7 years ago at Swofford Career Center in South Carolina. If that school sounds familiar that's because it's the location of the very first NTHS chapter!

 

Brad believes that CTE provides a strong foundation that all students can take advantage of and that NTHS helps honor those students! As the NTHS advisor for Chapter #1, Brad makes sure that his students are aware that our organization can trace its roots back to Swofford Career Center!

 

"EVERY student could benefit from CTE programs."

- Brad Rothell

It's scholarship season! ALL of our scholarships except DECA are open. Apply today at: https://nths.org/scholarships-2/ 

Test your knowledge of CTE History with this month's edition of Two Truths & a Lie.

 

If you don't already know the rules, all you have to do is read the three statements and decide which one YOU think is the lie. The answer will be at the bottom of the eNews. 

1. The first federal legislation supporting vocational education was in 1917.
2. WBL, FACS, STC, BOEA, and AAVC are all widely-used educational acronyms related to Career & Technical Education.
3. The graduation rate of CTE concentrators (students who complete a pathway in a CTE program area) in secondary education is 10% higher than the national overall graduation rate. 

Our monthly eNews is sponsored by our corporate partners, and a portion of all proceeds helps support our scholarship programs. 

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TWO TRUTHS & A LIE ANSWER: 2 is the lie! 

1. The first federal legislation supporting vocational education was in 1917. - TRUTH - This was the Smith-Hughes National Vocational Act
2. WBL, FACS, STC, BOEA, and AAVC are all widely-used educational acronyms related to Career & Technical Education. - LIE - We just made up BOEA ... "bored of educational acronyms". The other 4 are real though! WBL = Work-Based Learning, FACS = Family & Consumer Science, STC = School-to-Career, and AAVC = Arts, A/V Tech & Communications
3. The graduation rate of CTE concentrators (students who complete a pathway in a CTE program area) in secondary education is 10% higher than the national overall graduation rate. - TRUTH -  Data here, 2018

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