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This best practices guide from FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence, and CARCAM, the Consortium for Alabama Regional Center for Automotive Manufacturing, emphasizes the advantages of and need for statewide curricula in advanced technology education fields. The...

In this webinar from EvaluATE, Lyssa Becho, Sondra Lore, and Lana Rucks distinguish evaluation from research and highlight practical tools optimized for evaluations. Case examples of methods, including evaluative rubrics and ripple effect mapping, are provided. The unique demands of evaluation and...

This 1-page resource, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, was a handout given at a session at the 2012 ATE PI Conference. In this session, participants discussed current evaluation practices and brainstormed alternative strategies for evaluating the...

This 2-page resource, provided by the Centers Collaborative for Technical Assistance (CCTA), is a Business and Industry Leadership Team (BILT) best practices guide. CCTA offers a series of National Science Foundation Advanced Technology Education best practice guides. CCTA comprises five NSF ATE ...

This slide deck, provided by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC), was part of a special webinar presentation by Ann Beheler. These slides cover best practices and key strategies behind the National CTC's Business and Industry Leadership Team (BILT) model that encourages school business...

This slide deck, provided by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC), is from a workshop held at the summer 2022 Hight Impact Technology Exchange Conference (HITEC) in Atlanta. This workshop provided a detailed overview of best practices to implement and manage a "BILT" (Business and...

This 1-page resource, provided by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC), is a worksheet checklist developed to assist faculty and administration through the essential steps in building and managing a successful and effective "BILT" (Business and Industry Leadership Team). This checklist...

This handout was developed by the IT Skill Standards 2020 and Beyond project to provide a quick reference guide to the BILT (Business and Industry Leadership Team) process. The BILT process aims to align curriculum with workforce needs through frequent meetings with employers. This handout includes...

These sample communication tools are provided by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) and include an invite email template and a phone solicitation script. These tools are designed to help faculty and administration recruit new members to join a successful and effective "BILT" (Business...

These one-page flyers were developed at the request of member schools in the National Convergence Technology Centers's IT educator community of practice, known as the "CCN" (Convergence College Network), to help support their local high school programs. High school faculty have full schedules and...