2026 KACTE Summer Program

2026 KACTE Summer Program

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7:00am EDT

Continental Breakfast East Tower - 2nd Floor CTE Meeting Place Ballroom A - East - 2nd Floor Conference Registration Grand Hall - East Tower - 2nd Floor

8:00am EDT

The Power of Visual Storytelling: Showcasing Your School’s Success Fields - East - 3rd Floor 2027 CTE End-of-Program (EOP) Assessment Update Session Laffoon - East - 1st Floor Connecting Dots, Building Futures: Leveraging Futuriti to Strengthen CTE Program Impact Cochran - West - 3rd Floor Everyone Goes to Work: Work-Based Learning for Transitioning Students Ballroom C - East - 2nd Floor Hands-On, Minds-On, Project-Based Learning with Student Voice and Choice. Beckham - East - 3rd Floor From Idea to Impact: Building Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs in Kentucky Classrooms Willis - East - 2nd Floor Invest-Discover Insurance. Launch Your Career. The industry you never knew about but wished that you did. Wilkinson - East - 1st Floor Making Cents of it all! Practical Tools for Teaching Personal Finance Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor Teaching Employability Skills with AI: Job Creation, Hiring, and Interviews in a Student-Built Business Clements - East - 2nd Floor The Creative Process for Entrepreneurs: Designing a Boardgame Morrow - East - 3rd Floor Beyond the Buzz: Implementing AI with Purpose Across a District Walnut - West - 3rd Floor Educational Drones for Secondary STEM Programs Stopher - East - 3rd Floor Making Nutrition Fun: Hands-On Games and Activities Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor No Loose Threads! A Guide to Smooth Sewing Labs Stanley - East - 3rd Floor NTI First-Year Teachers Session: FCS Classroom Instruction Nunn - East - 2nd Floor Playschool: Little Learners, Student Leaders Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor “Booked for Success” A Back-to-School Hospitality and Tourism Experience Wilson - East - 3rd Floor Raising Hope Partnership with HOSA and FFA Taylor - East - 3rd Floor The Power of Collaboration: Making Learning Relevant for Health Science Students Brown - East - 2nd Floor Call to Classroom: Integrating 911 dispatching curriculum Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor Agriculture Off-Site at Seneca Seneca High School Welcome to Teaching Business and Marketing McCreary - East - 3rd Floor Year 1 New Construction Teachers Lily - West - 2nd Floor Engineering Tech Ed - NTI Information Session Sampson - East - 1st Floor Healthcare New Teacher Meeting French - East - 3rd Floor Law and Public Safety (LPS) NTI Year 1 Instructor Meet and Greet Segell - East - 3rd Floor Manufacturing NTI Year One - Let's Talk Willow - West - 3rd Floor Starting Strong: Foundations for Year One Computer Science and Media Arts Teachers Poplar - West - 3rd Floor Transportation NTI Teacher Update Dogwood - West - 3rd Floor Perkins 101 Ballroom B - East - 2nd Floor Learning Through Experience: Expansive Learning Through VR Holly - West - 3rd Floor CMRCC (IKORCC) Construction Workshop - Off-Site CMRCC (IKORCC) Kentucky JROTC Workshop (Session 2) Azalea - West - 2nd Floor Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Ladder and Block Programming. Communication Setup Collins - East - 2nd Floor Get Certified in the Industry Certification Lab! Coe - East - 3rd Floor FCS Nook Nunn - East - 2nd Floor

8:30am EDT

CSI-Day 2 Supporting Students From Exploration to Action: Pathways, ILPs, and Postsecondary Advising Daisy - West - 2nd Floor

9:00am EDT

KTS Data Exchange for High School Schedulers Ballroom C - East - 2nd Floor CTE Supplemental Funding: What You Can—and Can’t—Do Sampson - East - 1st Floor Surviving Your First Years of Teaching: Emotions, Classroom Foundations, and High-Yield Strategies Fields - East - 3rd Floor Thriving in the Trades: Implementing Youth Thrive Protective Factors in CTE Classrooms Willow - West - 3rd Floor Best Practices for Teaching Accounting Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor Diamond Level DECA Chapters Morrow - East - 3rd Floor Economics of Gambling Willis - East - 2nd Floor KY Master Teacher of Personal Finance Program: Best Practices for Teaching Financial Literacy Standards Wilkinson - East - 1st Floor The Mogul Map: Credit & Cash Flow Clements - East - 2nd Floor Mechatronics and PLCs: Engaging Tools for Modern Engineering Education Stopher - East - 3rd Floor Classroom to Capitol: Why Advocacy Matters Wilson - East - 3rd Floor Hands‑On ECE: Field Trips, Routines, and Real‑World Teaching Opportunities Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor How to Teach Recipe Costing and EP vs AP: How They Work Together Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor NTI First-Year Teachers Session: FCCLA Nunn - East - 2nd Floor Wealth and Wisdom - How to Become a Financial Warrior Stanley - East - 3rd Floor PLTW: BIOMEDICAL ROUNDTABLES Taylor - East - 3rd Floor Simulation Without the Stress: Best Practices for Teaching, Not Grading, in CTE Healthcare Programs Brown - East - 2nd Floor What Makes Us Who We Are: Personality Traits and Disorders Beckham - East - 3rd Floor CTE Teachers Plan to Empower Futures: Backward Design Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor Incorporating STLP's CDA Events into Graphic Design Poplar - West - 3rd Floor Seal of Arts Excellence: Building Media Arts Portfolios Walnut - West - 3rd Floor Designing for Joy: Using Project-Based Learning to Sustain Teachers Laffoon - East - 1st Floor

10:00am EDT

DIY Data-Dual Credit and Work Based Learning Lily - West - 2nd Floor TEDS Secondary Schools Update Ballroom C - East - 2nd Floor Connecting Career and Technical Education to Persistence to Graduation Fields - East - 3rd Floor From Classroom to Career: Teaching with AI the Way Industry Uses It Cochran - West - 3rd Floor From Classroom to Factory Floor: Industry Immersion for Educators Poplar - West - 3rd Floor Dual Credit Tips and Discussion Willis - East - 2nd Floor Financial Fraud Awareness: Spot it. Stop it. Stay Safe. Wilkinson - East - 1st Floor How to Prepare Students for the EOP and Industry Certifications Morrow - East - 3rd Floor How to use AI as a Digital Teaching Assistant Clements - East - 2nd Floor Making Work Count: Teaching Career-Ready Skills Through Business Co-op McCreary - East - 3rd Floor MBA Research 101: What is it and how to use Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor Where AI Meets Cyber: Teaching the Future of Digital Defense Walnut - West - 3rd Floor Introduction to EbD Civil Engineering Course Sampson - East - 1st Floor Introduction to MicroStation Stopher - East - 3rd Floor Becoming Self-Sufficient with Home-Based Processing Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor Beyond the Classroom: The Power of Community Service Nunn - East - 2nd Floor Engagement-More than an Educational Buzzword! Wilson - East - 3rd Floor Tech Assisted FCS Systems- Let AI lighten your workload in the FCS classroom and lab Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor The University of Louisville Cardinal CDA Goes to High School! Stanley - East - 3rd Floor EdTech for CTE Teachers (especially Health Science, but really for everyone!) French - East - 3rd Floor NHA Success Navigator: Empowering Excellence in Healthcare Education - Charting the Course to Maximize NHA Tools for Student and Program Success Taylor - East - 3rd Floor Organ Donation - Education, Impact and Career Pathways Beckham - East - 3rd Floor The Biggest Organ Brown - East - 2nd Floor National Law Enforcement Exam - Administration and Success Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor Industry-Ready 3D Printing: Building Workforce Skills in CTE Using Bambu Lab Technology Willow - West - 3rd Floor From Pathway to Pipeline: Planting the Foundation Laffoon - East - 1st Floor Exploring Modern Laboratory Technologies in CTE Classrooms with Labtech Dogwood - West - 3rd Floor

11:30am EDT

Lunch East Tower - 2nd Floor KY Engineering Tech Ed. Association Lunch (RSVP Required) Stopher - East - 3rd Floor TSA Updates Stopher - East - 3rd Floor Midday Mingle with Health Science/HOSA French - East - 3rd Floor

1:00pm EDT

IEP Team Player: Boost Your Special Education Skills and Confidence Fields - East - 3rd Floor Unlocking Kentucky’s Industry Certification List for Student Success Beckham - East - 3rd Floor WBL Shuffle (OCTE) Archibald - West - 3rd Floor Business Beyond Profit, Turning Vacant lots into Student-Led Business Ventures McCreary - East - 3rd Floor DECA Update/MEEAK Business Meeting Willis - East - 2nd Floor Keeping It Honest Morrow - East - 3rd Floor Reimagining Business and Marketing Essentials Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor The Accounting Evolution: Panel Q and A Clements - East - 2nd Floor Building Career Pathways with CYBER.ORG's No Cost Cybersecurity Curriculum Poplar - West - 3rd Floor Local 502 - Skilled Trade Apprenticeships Lily - West - 2nd Floor Engineering Fundamental Labs for a Solid Foundation Stopher - East - 3rd Floor Getting Started with Arduino Using TinkerCad Sampson - East - 1st Floor Back to School and Back to Standards: Refreshing Middle School FCS Nunn - East - 2nd Floor Culinary and Food Services Skill Share Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor Elements and Principles of Design - How to teach these concepts in FCS classes Stanley - East - 3rd Floor Incorporating "Portrait of a Learner" in the classroom, lab, and CTSO's Wilson - East - 3rd Floor Strengthening Child Development Instruction: Using KET and PBS Resources in High School FCS Classrooms Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor Community Preparedness in Action: The HOSA/MRC Partnership French - East - 3rd Floor From Rhythm to Response: Building ECG Competency Through Simulation Taylor - East - 3rd Floor Mind Matters: Caring for Mental Health, Anxiety, and Depression Brown - East - 2nd Floor Kentucky JROTC For Administrators, Counselors and CTE Coordinators Azalea - West - 2nd Floor A Different Kind of Digital Breakout Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor Robotics and Automation in the Classroom Cochran - West - 3rd Floor What Changed and Why: Graphics Design Standards Updates Holly - West - 3rd Floor Designing Industry Partnerships that Build Authentic Career and Transition Readiness for Every Student, with Intentional Access for Students with Disabilities (SWD) Daisy - West - 2nd Floor Bridging Language and Career Pathways: Empowering English Learners in Career and Technical Education Programs Laffoon - East - 1st Floor ASE Updates Dogwood - West - 3rd Floor Financial Literacy Education Wilkinson - East - 1st Floor Building Models with Machine Learning Walnut - West - 3rd Floor Machine Simulation Driven CNC Training for Modern Manufacturing Willow - West - 3rd Floor Mechatronics Collins - East - 2nd Floor

2:30pm EDT

CTE Refreshment Break East Tower - 2nd Floor

3:00pm EDT

Employer Engagement in CTE Ballroom B - East - 2nd Floor Bridging Classroom to Career Through Workplace Knowledge Ballroom C - East - 2nd Floor

Connecting Classrooms to Careers: Industry Partnerships that Work Beckham - East - 3rd Floor Everyone Goes to Work: Work-Based Learning for Transitioning Students Laffoon - East - 1st Floor Removing Barriers, Building Futures: The McKinney-Vento Act and Career and Technical Education Stopher - East - 3rd Floor SkillsUSA Regional Meetings Cochran - West - 3rd Floor Soft Skills Are Power Skills: Teaching Employability Intentionally Fields - East - 3rd Floor DECA Competition Prep Strategies Willis - East - 2nd Floor NTI Teachers - Intro to DECA McCreary - East - 3rd Floor Straight from State: The Kentucky FBLA Update Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor Changing Students Lives with Certiport Industry Certifications Poplar - West - 3rd Floor Preparing for Kentucky’s AI Pathway: Curriculum Resources and Practical AI Tools Holly - West - 3rd Floor TSA Information Session for NTI Year 2 Sampson - East - 1st Floor A Creative CTE Collaboration - Teddy Bear Hospital Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor Inside Today’s Hospitality Industry: Trends, Travel, and Career Pathways Wilson - East - 3rd Floor Member Burnout and Managing Members Nunn - East - 2nd Floor NTI Year 2: Meet and Greet and Wrap-Up Nunn - East - 2nd Floor Spot the Scam: Current Financial Fraud Trends and Prevention Stanley - East - 3rd Floor You Eat with Your Eyes First: Teaching Students the Art of Plate Presentation and Design Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor From Classroom Support to College Success: AHEC’s Student Pipeline Taylor - East - 3rd Floor HOSA Advisor Success: Foundations for New Advisors French - East - 3rd Floor Patient Care Technician Programs: Steps to Building a Strong Foundation Brown - East - 2nd Floor Kentucky JROTC For Administrators, Counselors and CTE Coordinators Azalea - West - 2nd Floor Adventures and Misadventures in Student-Paced Learning Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor SACA - The American Dollar of Manufacturing Certifications Lily - West - 2nd Floor Pathways to Possibility: Bringing Career Exploration and Financial Literacy to Life in Middle School Daisy - West - 2nd Floor Transportation Roundtable Dogwood - West - 3rd Floor

4:00pm EDT

DIY Data-Dual Credit and Work Based Learning Lily - West - 2nd Floor The Redesign of a Successful High School Willis - East - 2nd Floor Jumpstart Your Middle School CTE Teaching Journey: Tools, Tips, and Strategies Beckham - East - 3rd Floor Teaching Tools from the Feds Clements - East - 2nd Floor KETEA Executive Committee Meeting Sampson - East - 1st Floor Bringing Vocabulary to Life in the Classroom Nunn - East - 2nd Floor Foundations of Child Services 1 and 2 Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor From Telling to Showing: Transforming Teacher Preparation in the Fundamentals of Teaching Pathway Wilson - East - 3rd Floor Practical Lesson Plans For High School Culinary Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor Winning the Gavel Stanley - East - 3rd Floor Beyond the Bus: Purposeful Field Trips Through Simulation Experiences Taylor - East - 3rd Floor Support and Supplies from SOS Brown - East - 2nd Floor Trauma Informed Care Wilkinson - East - 1st Floor Kentucky JROTC For Administrators, Counselors and CTE Coordinators Azalea - West - 2nd Floor Every Adult Matters: Building a School Prevention Workforce Collins - East - 2nd Floor Chat Who? Ask the Experts: Adviser Insights You Can't Google Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor Computer Science by Abstraction - A Proven Approach to Advanced CS Education Holly - West - 3rd Floor Implementing OpenEDG Industry-Recognized Certifications in CTE Pathways Poplar - West - 3rd Floor KNAT Program UPDATE French - East - 3rd Floor Sampling iCEV Lessons for LPS Classrooms Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor 3D Fundamentals Certification: A New Pathway for Student Creators with Unreal Engine and Gameplan Walnut - West - 3rd Floor Growing High-Impact CTE Programs Through Communication, Data Reflection, and Partnerships. Highlights and Successes from a top 5% career readiness KY high school Daisy - West - 2nd Floor

5:30pm EDT

KACTE Annual Business Meeting Ballroom B - East - 2nd Floor

6:00pm EDT

KY Jump$tart Coalition Annual Awards Dinner Waterford - West - 25th Floor KACTE Member Event Patrick O'Shea's

2026 KACTE Summer Program

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