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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251103T080000
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UID:26721-1762156800-1762185600@www.acteaz.org
SUMMARY:Technical Reading & Performance Literacy Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Event Details:\n\nLevel 1\nNo prerequisite\nThis class is designed for all CTE teachers.\n\nThis course consists of TWO 8-hour classes. You must attend BOTH classes to receive credit.  \nDay 1: Monday\, November 3\, 2025 from 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM\nDay 2: Monday\, November 10\, 2025 from 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM\nLunch is provided by MICTED \nYour CTE classroom truly is the key to meaningful application of the current career and college readiness standards. This course will give you specific examples where Arizona’s Common Core standards for Technical Literacy already exist in your CTE program\, it will provide opportunities for you to incorporate additional standards into your lessons\, AND it will give you strategies to take back to your classroom to increase your students’ ability to read difficult technical information more effectively. Come find out why CTE really is a powerful driver for creating literate employees for our 21st century workforce. \nUpon successful completion of Technical Reading and Performance Literacy participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.
URL:https://www.acteaz.org/courses/technical-reading-performance-literacy-day-11-3-25/
LOCATION:Mountain Institute CTED\, 220 Ruger Road\, Prescott\, 86301
CATEGORIES:Technical Reading & Performance Literacy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251104T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251104T160000
DTSTAMP:20260524T235207
CREATED:20250806T183036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250806T183036Z
UID:26541-1762243200-1762272000@www.acteaz.org
SUMMARY:Using Advisory Councils Effectively
DESCRIPTION:Event Details:\n\nLevel 3\nNo prerequisite\nThis class is designed for all CTE teachers\nOption B approved course\n\nAn energetic and involved advisory council can have a significant impact on helping your program and students achieve their goals! This interactive class is designed to ensure success in the formation and use of industry advisory councils. During this class\, you will learn how to form a committee\, how to conduct useful advisory council meetings\, and how to use advisory council members for continuous program improvement. \nUpon successful completion of the course\, which includes submission of homework\, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours\, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.
URL:https://www.acteaz.org/courses/using-advisory-councils-effectively-11-04-25/
LOCATION:START @ West-MEC – Glendale\, AZ\, 5405 N. 99th Avenue\, Glendale\, AZ\, 85305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Using Advisory Councils Effectively
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251106T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251107T153000
DTSTAMP:20260524T235207
CREATED:20250730T191216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250801T205348Z
UID:26502-1762416000-1762529400@www.acteaz.org
SUMMARY:Instructional Best Practices
DESCRIPTION:Event Details:\n\nLevel 1\nNo prerequisite\nThis class is designed for all CTE teachers.\n\nThis course consists of TWO 8-hour classes. You must attend BOTH classes to receive credit.  \nThis course is an introduction to the design and use of CTE curriculum. In this highly engaging course\, teachers will focus on the design and delivery of relevant and engaging lessons. Special emphasis is placed on active participation strategies\, a strong introduction to each lesson\, clear and appropriate objective(s)\, a variety of ways to meet the objective(s)\, and closure to assess learning. These strategies will be woven across the entire workshop. \nAll participants whose districts are members of the AZ CTE Curriculum Consortium and who complete both days of this workshop will receive password-protected access to the Curriculum Connection with its 3500+ bank of outstanding lesson plans for more than 20 CTE programs written by Arizona CTE teachers. \nThis course is excellent for every teacher. Ace your next evaluation! \nThere is no homework for this class. Upon successful completion of BOTH Instructional Best Practices classes\, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours\, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.
URL:https://www.acteaz.org/courses/instructional-best-practices-11-06-07-25/
LOCATION:Pima JTED @ Master Pieces\, 2855 W. Master Pieces Dr.\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85741\, United States
CATEGORIES:Instructional Best Practices
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251110T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251110T160000
DTSTAMP:20260524T235207
CREATED:20250923T205047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250923T205229Z
UID:26723-1762761600-1762790400@www.acteaz.org
SUMMARY:Technical Reading & Performance Literacy Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Event Details:\n\nLevel 1\nNo prerequisite\nThis class is designed for all CTE teachers.\n\nThis course consists of TWO 8-hour classes. You must attend BOTH classes to receive credit.  \nDay 1: Monday\, November 3\, 2025 from 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM\nDay 2: Monday\, November 10\, 2025 from 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM\nLunch is provided by MICTED \nYour CTE classroom truly is the key to meaningful application of the current career and college readiness standards. This course will give you specific examples where Arizona’s Common Core standards for Technical Literacy already exist in your CTE program\, it will provide opportunities for you to incorporate additional standards into your lessons\, AND it will give you strategies to take back to your classroom to increase your students’ ability to read difficult technical information more effectively. Come find out why CTE really is a powerful driver for creating literate employees for our 21st century workforce. \nUpon successful completion of Technical Reading and Performance Literacy participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework. \nRegister through the Monday\, November 3\, 2025 course posting: Register Here
URL:https://www.acteaz.org/courses/technical-reading-performance-literacy-day-11-10-25/
LOCATION:Mountain Institute CTED\, 220 Ruger Road\, Prescott\, 86301
CATEGORIES:Technical Reading & Performance Literacy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251113T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251113T153000
DTSTAMP:20260524T235207
CREATED:20250730T184632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250801T205503Z
UID:26494-1763020800-1763047800@www.acteaz.org
SUMMARY:Advanced Methods of Teaching CTE
DESCRIPTION:Event Details:\n\n\n\nLevel 4\nPrerequisite: Completion of Instructional Best Practices Day 1 and Day 2\nThis class is designed for advanced CTE teachers\n\n\n\n\nPlease bring a laptop\n\nThis course will support teachers’ continuing development as outstanding teachers for CTE programs by examining their personal educational philosophy\, instructional design\, and methodology. Three major components comprise the course: \n\nExamining Beliefs About Learning – developing your own personal philosophy about learning\nMotivating Adolescent Learners – designing a classroom that is especially effective for high school students\nEngagement – active participation strategies to use every day in your classroom: instruction models\, active participation strategies\, and major components that are especially effective with adolescents.\n\nNOTE:  Upon successful completion of the course\, which includes submission of homework\, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours\, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.
URL:https://www.acteaz.org/courses/advanced-methods-of-teaching-cte-11-13-25/
LOCATION:JTED @ Master Pieces\, 2855 W Master Pieces Drive\, Building 1/PD Classroom\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85741\, United States
CATEGORIES:Advanced Methods of Teaching CTE
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251113T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251113T160000
DTSTAMP:20260524T235207
CREATED:20250910T210722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T213157Z
UID:26643-1763020800-1763049600@www.acteaz.org
SUMMARY:Lesson Plan Writing
DESCRIPTION:Event Details:\n\nLevel 2\nPrerequisite: Completion of Instructional Best Practices Day 1 and Day 2\nOption B approved course\n\nThis class will show you how to build a lesson plan with all the needed components for student success. \nWouldn’t you love to learn to write lessons that allow you to walk into your classroom each day feeling fully prepared? This class will help you with that goal. Each teacher will complete a task analysis for one or more measurement criteria\, determine the number of lessons to be written for the unit of instruction\, and write the first lesson in the unit. \nUpon successful completion of the course\, which includes submission of homework\, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours\, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework. \n$50 registration fee for those that are not WAVE Member Districts
URL:https://www.acteaz.org/courses/lesson-plan-writing-11-13-25/
LOCATION:Lake Havasu High School\, 2675 Palo Verde Blvd S\, Lake Havasu City\, AZ\, 86403\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesson Plan Writing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251114T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251114T160000
DTSTAMP:20260524T235207
CREATED:20250806T183628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250806T193436Z
UID:26543-1763107200-1763136000@www.acteaz.org
SUMMARY:Advanced Methods Of CTE
DESCRIPTION:Level 4\nPrerequisite:  Completion of Instructional Best Practices Day 1 and Day 2\nThis class is designed for teachers in at least their 2nd year\nPlease bring a laptop\n\nThis course will support teachers’ continuing development as outstanding teachers for CTE programs by examining their personal educational philosophy\, instructional design\, and methodology. Three major components comprise the course: \n\nExamining Beliefs About Learning – developing your own personal philosophy about learning\nMotivating Adolescent Learners – identify characteristics of adolescents and design a classroom that is especially effective for high school students\nEngagement – active participation strategies to use every day in your classroom: instruction models\, active participation strategies\, and major components that are especially effective with adolescents.\n\nUpon successful completion of the course\, which includes submission of homework\, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours\, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.
URL:https://www.acteaz.org/courses/advanced-methods-of-cte-11-14-25/
LOCATION:START @ West-MEC – Glendale\, AZ\, 5405 N. 99th Avenue\, Glendale\, AZ\, 85305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Advanced Methods of Teaching CTE
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251114T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251114T160000
DTSTAMP:20260524T235207
CREATED:20250819T202506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250819T202506Z
UID:26579-1763107200-1763136000@www.acteaz.org
SUMMARY:Empowering Students Through Professional Skills
DESCRIPTION:Event Details:\n\nLevel 3\nThis class is designed for all CTE teachers\nPlease bring your Scope & Sequence\nOption B approved course\n\nThis course will explore the nine Professional Skills identified by the Arizona Department of Education in collaboration with industry. Participants will identify them\, use created rubrics to assess their use\, explore strategies to embed them across their curriculum\, and methods to evaluate students. \nUpon successful completion of the course\, which includes submission of homework\, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours\, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.
URL:https://www.acteaz.org/courses/empowering-students-through-professional-skills-11-14-25/
LOCATION:Flagstaff Family Resource Center\, FRC Training Room\, Lit B 4000 N. Cummings\, Flagstaff\, AZ\, 86004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Empowering Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251118T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251118T153000
DTSTAMP:20260524T235207
CREATED:20250730T185040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250801T205617Z
UID:26496-1763452800-1763479800@www.acteaz.org
SUMMARY:Effective Demonstrations
DESCRIPTION:Event Details:\n\nLevel 2\nNo prerequisite\nThis class is designed for all CTE teachers\nOption B approved course\n\nWhether in a welding lab or a bioscience lab\, effective demonstrations are crucial. If done correctly\, every student can successfully perform the new skill with little or no frustration\, without wasted materials\, and attain proficiency in a way that will ensure the whole class progresses at an appropriate pace. This is a real career extender! When you are successful in the lab\, and the students are successful in the lab\, teaching can be very rewarding. An added bonus is that students complete the new skill in a safe environment. Come and learn this four-part demonstration method. \nUpon successful completion of the course\, which includes submission of homework\, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours\, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.
URL:https://www.acteaz.org/courses/effective-demonstrations-11-18-25/
LOCATION:JTED @ Master Pieces\, 2855 W Master Pieces Drive\, Building 1/PD Classroom\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85741\, United States
CATEGORIES:Effective Demonstrations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251118T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251118T160000
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CREATED:20250806T183951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250806T183951Z
UID:26545-1763452800-1763481600@www.acteaz.org
SUMMARY:Rubrics To Increase Student Success
DESCRIPTION:Event Details: \n\nLevel 3\nNo prerequisite\nThis class is designed for all CTE teachers\nOption B approved course\n\nCTE courses are driven by student-created projects. Rubrics are an evaluation tool that can increase the quality of those student projects while simultaneously giving the teacher a quicker\, fairer way to assess their quality. Come to this workshop with one or two student projects that you would like to assess more easily\, and you will leave with an excellent rubric that you personalized for your classroom and the confidence and skills to create additional rubrics for the other student projects in your curriculum. \nUpon successful completion of the course\, which includes submission of homework\, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours\, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.
URL:https://www.acteaz.org/courses/rubrics-to-increase-student-success-11-18-25/
LOCATION:START @ West-MEC – Glendale\, AZ\, 5405 N. 99th Avenue\, Glendale\, AZ\, 85305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Rubrics to Increase Student Success
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251120T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251120T160000
DTSTAMP:20260524T235207
CREATED:20250806T184332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250806T184332Z
UID:26547-1763625600-1763654400@www.acteaz.org
SUMMARY:Lesson Plan Writing
DESCRIPTION:Event Details:\n\nLevel 2\nPrerequisite: Completion of Instructional Best Practices Day 1 and Day 2\nOption B approved course\n\nThis class will show you how to build a lesson plan with all the needed components for student success. \nWouldn’t you love to learn to write lessons that allow you to walk into your classroom each day feeling fully prepared? This class will help you with that goal. Each teacher will complete a task analysis for one or more measurement criteria\, determine the number of lessons to be written for the unit of instruction\, and write the first lesson in the unit. \nUpon successful completion of the course\, which includes submission of homework\, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours\, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.
URL:https://www.acteaz.org/courses/lesson-plan-writing-11-20-25/
LOCATION:START @ West-MEC – Glendale\, AZ\, 5405 N. 99th Avenue\, Glendale\, AZ\, 85305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesson Plan Writing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251120T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251121T153000
DTSTAMP:20260524T235207
CREATED:20250730T185310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250801T205840Z
UID:26498-1763625600-1763739000@www.acteaz.org
SUMMARY:Lesson Plan Writing
DESCRIPTION:Event Details:\n\nLevel 2\nPrerequisite: Completion of Instructional Best Practices Day 1 and Day 2\nNOT an Option B approved course\n\nThis class will show you how to build a lesson plan with all the needed components for student success. \nWouldn’t you love to learn to write lessons that allow you to walk into your classroom each day feeling fully prepared? This class will help you with that goal. Each teacher will complete a task analysis for one or more measurement criteria\, determine the number of lessons to be written for the unit of instruction\, and write the first lesson in the unit. \nUpon successful completion of the course\, which includes submission of homework\, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours\, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.
URL:https://www.acteaz.org/courses/lesson-plan-writing-11-20-21-25/
LOCATION:JTED @ Master Pieces\, 2855 W Master Pieces Drive\, Building 1/PD Classroom\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85741\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesson Plan Writing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251121T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251121T160000
DTSTAMP:20260524T235207
CREATED:20250819T202752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250819T202833Z
UID:26581-1763712000-1763740800@www.acteaz.org
SUMMARY:CTE Essentials
DESCRIPTION:Event Details:\n\nLevel 1\nNo prerequisite\nThis class is designed for all CTE employees\nOption B approved course\n\nThe CTE Delivery Model is THE premier educational system for all students. \nCTE Essentials will give you an overview of each of the four components of this outstanding model and allow you time to process how you can incorporate each element into all of your instructional units as you plan your program’s calendar. It will also provide some insight into the many roles a CTE teacher plays in the course of any school day\, where to find support to meet those expectations\, and how to transition between each of them. CTE Essentials is truly a must-have course for the teacher who is looking to build a strong program for students. \nUpon successful completion of the course\, which includes submission of homework\, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours\, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.
URL:https://www.acteaz.org/courses/cte-essentials-11-21-25/
LOCATION:Online/virtual instruction
CATEGORIES:CTE Essentials
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