Illinois Association for Career and Technical Education
Strategic Plan
Adopted September 15, 2007
Mission:
To provide unified, visionary leadership to advance and promote learning in
career and technical education.
Themes:
- Marketing
- Professional /Leadership Development
- Curriculum
- Legislation
- Membership/Networking
Theme: Marketing
Goal: Communicate about Career and Technical Education and the IACTE organization to members, potential members, students, legislators and the general public.
Objectives:
- Prepare a membership package for new members (Board of Directors' list; Welcome brochure with references to web site)
- Update web page with same information as above with links and include calendar of meetings and conferences.
- Promote the catch phrase for the Association.
- Develop recruitment, legislative, and member brochures.
Theme: Professional/Leadership Development
Goal: Provide vision, resources, legislative information and leadership to members.
Objectives:
- Develop a plan of professional development activities that are mobile and utilize current technology, techniques that are relevant to the members.
- Develop a leadership seminar for affiliate officers providing tools/resources/guidance to develop future leaders and seek corporate support for a summer follow-up seminar.
- Develop a "Continuity Notebook" for IACTE board members.
Theme: Curriculum
Goal: Provide leadership for IACTE members on curriculum initiatives that establishes CTE as an integral component of the comprehensive high school system.
Objectives:
- Provide links on the IACTE webpage to current and developing curriculum/assessment projects in each content area.
- Provide CTE resources (e.g., state goals, standards, assessments) locally, statewide, and nationally.
- Partner with and promote the statewide curriculum revitalization initiative.
- Investigate linkages to post-secondary curriculum.
Theme: Legislation
Goal: Be recognized as the lead voice for strong Career and Technical Education.
Goal: Cultivate and educate those who are in positions to assist in the development and support of strong Career and Technical Education programs.
Objectives:
1. Promote a legislative platform
2. Develop a structure for contacting legislators at both the state and national levels (e.g., contacts, web site, training)
3. Be proactive in education legislators of the impact of CTE (e.g., funding .legislation, future employment, economics, students)
4. Develop partnerships with other groups-organizations, both inside and outside of education, to promote CTE legislation
5. Update-develop a legislative online handbook for member's use.
6. Facilitate a review of the need and design for a political action committee.
Theme: Membership/Networking
Goal: Analyze the retention and recruitment of members and develop/implement strategies to retain and increase members.
Objectives:
Retention of Membership
- Analyze current and potential membership.
- Assign a team to an existing state division.
- Lost members - send a letter or email seeking their response to "Why didn't you rejoin IACTE?"
- Review, revise, and promote awards program.
- Actively represent the CTE community on the ISBE Program Approval Advosory Group.
- Advocate for membership in ACTE and related affiliate organizations as a quality indicator in the Program Approval process
Recruit New Members
- Appoint a task force to identify how IACTE can meet the needs of postsecondary educators.
- Recruit CTE teachers/administrators who are not members.
- Actively represent the CTE community on the ISBE Program Approval Advisory Group.
- Advocate for membership in IACTE and related affiliate organizations as a quality indicator in the Program Approval process.
- Work with university CTE teacher education programs to cultivate new members.