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President-Elect
- Doris Wojtulewicz
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- Career and Technical Education is an indispensable part of every student’s education. Much concern is expressed regarding the quality of the American worker both as contributing members of our society, and competitive members of the global workforce. CTE offers the single best response to that concern. Consistently CTE students demonstrate remarkable achievement in both workplace skills and classroom achievement. Our greatest focus must remain on preparing our students to enter the business community and increasing our student base so that no student leaves the public school system (P-20) unprepared to take their place in the workforce. It is with this belief that I wish to become our organization’s president. I believe ACTEAZ must continue to take a proactive position as we set goals for the future. One of the challenges to our organization is to insure that ACTEAZ remains a truly statewide organization, dedicated to both our common needs as CTE educators as well as the diverse concerns that stem from a membership that represents rural and urban areas, administrators, business partners and teachers, secondary and post-secondary institutions, growing districts and declining districts, and a myriad of other faces. To be proactive, we must offer support in the form of professional development, leadership and support services. We must increase our membership base in order to strengthen our voice. These are challenging times for our nation and our state, for our education system and teachers, for our economy and our workforce. However, I believe that inside our greatest challenges lie our greatest opportunities. We must be diligent in spreading the message that CTE is an integral part of the solution to every one of these challenges. We must strive to cement one common belief in the mind of every stakeholder: CTE works!
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Vice President
- Mary Anne Berens
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- It would be an honor and a privilege to serve as your ACTEAZ Vice President. As a member of ACTEAZ for the past 18 years and having served on the Board of Directors, previously, I believe that I am well qualified to serve. I feel that I bring valuable experience to the position and to the Board as a whole. I feel that I am a great team player and would be a great support to the President, President-Elect, and the Past President with whom I would be serving. I have worked hard for the Association in the past and will continue to support our endeavors for growth throughout the State as well as Nationally. I will also continue to support the Association’s efforts to be called on as a qualified resource to our State and National Educational leaders. I feel that ACTEAZ is a strong voice for our teachers and our students at every level and I believe that, as a classroom teacher, I have a pulse on the concerns and issues needing to be addressed and supported.
- I believe that with strong leadership abilities and with the support from my Administration and CTE Director to continue my involvement and leadership in the Association, I would be a strong candidate for the office of Vice President.
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Secretary
- Christine Nelson
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- A career is a passion you have about your industry and to make it the best in your journey. The people I have met in my journey with ACTE are the ones with passion that I see put their hearts and soul into making education for our students a much better place.
- In observing others who have stepped up for CTE causes, has made me realize these are the people who have enabled me and thousands of other teachers to keep our jobs. The fight for funding and better programs, the conferences and scholarships all take so much time. For the few who make this happen and all the others who do not have an understanding of what ACTE does for us as educators, it is my goal to help educate and inform and to be a part of the ACTEAZ board is the first step in achieving this. My passion has grown, so I have stepped forward by presenting at ACTE conferences state, regional and national levels, volunteering at scholarship fundraisers, and becoming an ACTEAZ fellow in 2009. I have become active in ABEA and will run for office, and have been a CTSO advisor for DECA and currently for FBLA. I took on a marketing project in Anchorage Alaska, Region V and presented books and read to the elementary students. I also step up in my district when asked, from teaching yearbook, to being a Rigor, Relevance, Relationship trainer, piloting new classes in the business department. I have also with dealt with large companies like Motorola, SRP, American Express, and Discover Card when working with United Blood Service and would like to continue working with them in ACTE. I am also the Business COE instructor and the skills and experience I have accumulated will help me to fulfill the requirements of being Secretary for ACTEAZ.
- To the extraordinary and hardworking people I have met and have encouraged me along the way, running for ACTEAZ secretary is the next step in my career and what I would like to give back to the organization for all they have given me.
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