President’s Letter – Lisa Doll – April 2016
Happy Spring, It is hard to believe that we are on the downhill side for the school year. We hope your last few weeks of the school year are rewarding and exciting. Good luck to all of the teachers and their students who are participating in CTSO competitions and...
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President’s Letter – Stephen Weltsch – December
Dear ACTEAZ Members, It is difficult to believe that it is the middle of December! I am inspired by the accomplishments our members have made in what seems like such a short time: the delivery of statewide professional development, expanding the number of courses offered through The Premier Series,...
President’s Letter – Stephen Weltsch – Welcome
Dear ACTEAZ Members, Each of you will make meaningful differences in the lives of young people this year; not only will you provide students with career-ready skills, but you will send students to post-secondary learning with a purpose. What a legacy and what a responsibility! Please know that your...
President’s Letter – Doris Wojtulewicz – June 2013
Please join me in recognizing and honoring the great loss of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. ACTEAZ sends our deepest sympathy and gratitude to their families. Our sympathy is also with their former teachers, some of whom were CTE teachers. And we send our sympathy to the town of Prescott...
President’s Letter – Doris Wojtulewicz – March 2013
According to John A. Daly1, “advocacy means persuading people who matter to care about your issue”. Using this definition, we in CTE have been very busy advocating these last weeks. February was CTE Month. Excellent campaigns, activities and efforts were made across Arizona and the nation to market the...
President’s Letter – Doris Wojtulewicz – February 2013
Welcome to February. It is National CTE Month and the month of Arizona’s Mid-Winter Leadership Conference in Prescott. We have just concluded our 13th annual ACTEAZ/ACOVA Mid-Winter Leadership Conference in Prescott. If “learning and leadership are indispensable to each other”, as JFK once said, then our leadership conference was...
President’s Letter – Doris Wojtulewicz – January 2013
Happy New Year and welcome back to second semester! Charles Sykes once wrote something to the effect that in the real world, life isn’t divided into semesters, there are no do-overs, you don’t get to start again, you just have to keep showing up everyday. This “rule of...
President’s Letter – Doris Wojtulewicz – December 2012
Perhaps it is because I returned home from Atlanta and ACTE Vision 2012 in the middle of the holiday season, but I find myself with two recurring thoughts. One is a feeling of thankfulness. Everyday of the conference I had the opportunity to dialogue with members and officers...