The CTAT/ACTE Member Excellence Awards recognize those individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to CTE, programs that exemplify the highest standards and organizations that have conducted activities to promote and expand CTE programs. Award winners serve as inspirational leaders to CTAT and ACTE: they embody the core values of serving their students and being committed to CTE.
Award Types and Details
Award Criteria
Accomplishments and innovations that exhibit the quality of the candidate for the award. Contributions to the CTE community (can include activities within their institutions, communities, ACTE and other organizations).
All candidates must demonstrate at minimum one best practice in CTE as outlined in the High Quality CTE Framework in order to be eligible to receive the award.
Nominees
CTAT Areas will select nominees for member awards by May 1. Area Presidents are responsible for submitting nominations. Please contact your Area President for questions.
Application Process
1. State Awards
Candidates begin the application process by nominating themselves (or being nominated by a peer) for their state competition. Nominees for Administrator of the Year, Career Guidance and Teacher awards are interviewed in person by the Awards Committee at the Winter Conference. Award winners will be recognized at the CTAT Summer conference. Candidates must hold the appropriate position at the time of initial nomination (eg. be a secondary school CTE administrator if applying for the Administrator of the Year.)
2. Region Awards
State winners compete within their Regions. All state winners must have their applications uploaded to the ACTE Awards Portal and be ACTE members by the March 1 Region deadline (non-members are not eligible to compete at the Region or National levels). Region winners are selected by their Region awards committees and announced during their Region conferences.
3. National Awards
Region winners' applications are forwarded to the final round of competition within the Awards Portal by their Region committee chair. The national awards committee selects the national winners, which are announced at the ACTE Awards Banquet during ACTE's CareerTech VISION.
Questions?
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