Join us for the WE-BAM Breakfast Roundtable! Come connect over breakfast to discuss open positions, ask questions, share ideas or simply enjoy a friendly face and great conversation. We'd love to see you there!
In this creative, hands-on session, participants will explore how Canva can be used to spark creativity, storytelling, and student engagement across content areas. Attendees will learn Canva tools including Canva Classroom, AI-powered features, templates, image editing, and design techniques while creating their own superhero-themed digital designs. Participants will also explore classroom-ready projects such as movie poster redesigns, advertisements for business and marketing classes, visual presentations, identity-based design challenges, and student media projects. Leave with practical ideas, resources, and examples ready to use in your classroom.
Transform HOSA from an extracurricular activity into a powerful instructional tool. In this interactive session, educators will explore how to incorporate HOSA competitions, projects, and resources into daily classroom practice. Attendees will leave with practical examples, rubrics, and strategies to support student learning across health science pathways including sports medicine, nursing, and allied health.
This session explores how to design and operate an authentic student-run enterprise within a traditional classroom setting — even without access to a commercial facility. Participants will learn how a rural high school entrepreneurship program built and operates a fully functioning, revenue-generating coffee business using project-based instruction aligned to CTE frameworks and work-based learning standards.Attendees will gain practical strategies for structuring operations, developing student leadership teams, embedding academic and technical skill development into real business tasks, and assessing performance in an authentic workplace environment. This session is especially valuable for educators in rural or resource-limited settings seeking scalable, high-impact models that move beyond simulation and into real-world career preparation.
This session introduces a practical system that combines district data analysis with teacher-driven AI workflows to reduce guesswork, save time, and improve instructional decisions. Participants will learn how to identify real problems using data, apply structured prompt templates and workflows, and use pre/post approaches to measure what’s working. Attendees will leave with usable templates and a clear process they can apply immediately. Please bring a computer for hands-on portions.
This session will focus on why early and sustained intervention matters and how to implement it. We will walk through the K12/University partnership between Washington State University's Health Science Campus and a rural district in Washington. This presentation will cover novel research about the benefits of career exposure from the student, K12 school administrator, and college student perspective. We will also discuss the keys and barriers to success of partnerships of this nature.
Career-connected learning often exists across strong but disconnected efforts between K–12, postsecondary, and industry. This session explores how districts and partners can reduce fragmentation by aligning career exploration, classroom learning, and work-based experiences. Participants will examine strategies for onboarding industry partners, strengthening collaboration across systems, and creating clearer pathways that connect education to meaningful workforce opportunities.
This presentation is about the importance of student voice in the classroom. Providing students with opportunities to reflect, give feedback, and openly share, and taking this feedback to make adjustments to our practices as instructors and increase classroom engagement.
Health Science CTE instructor, Athletic Trainer, and Run KANO advisor at Kamiakin High School. I'm hoping to connect with other advisors that work with their student sections to come up with new ideas!
This session introduces a practical, replicable model for designing cross‑credited CTE courses that are both industry‑authentic and academically rigorous. Using the open-source REVIT program as an example, participants will see how industry competencies, CTE frameworks, and academic standards can be aligned to create coherent, multi‑credit courses. The session highlights strategies for finding natural academic connections and designing tasks where technical and academic learning reinforce one another. Attendees will leave with tools, examples, and a clear process they can adapt to any pathway.
High-performing professionals often maintain output while their decision quality quietly declines. This session introduces the REST Framework, a structured approach to recognize early stress signals, maintain clarity under pressure, and support sound, ethical decision-making. Participants will learn practical methods to reduce cognitive overload, strengthen focus, and apply consistent decision strategies that improve outcomes in their organizations, classrooms, and communities.
Access to career-connected learning opportunities can shape students’ engagement, confidence, and future pathways. This session explores strategies for expanding equitable access to career exploration, CTE programs, and work-based learning experiences. Participants will examine how K–12 schools, postsecondary partners, and industry can collaborate to ensure all students—regardless of background or location—can develop professional skills, academic knowledge, and technical competencies connected to real career opportunities.
The Biotechnology Aptitude and Competency Exam (BACE) serves as a base, with a framework supported by bioscience industry standards for career-ready talent. Building on the validated BACE credential, new credentials aligned with high-demand workforce needs have been developed to expand bioscience career options. This session will share credential design strategies and provide industry insights on technician-level talent. We invite educators, administrators, counselors, and industry partners to explore how industry hiring needs and credentialing models intersect to shape career pathway ecosystems.
CTE programs have the potential to do more than deliver credit — they can deliver credentials. This session explores how to intentionally design Career & Technical Education pathways around industry-recognized certifications that provide students with tangible workforce advantages.Participants will learn how to align curriculum, pacing, assessment, and classroom systems to credential outcomes while maintaining authentic, high-quality learning experiences. This session addresses implementation realities including funding constraints, scheduling challenges, student motivation, and balancing certification preparation with project-based instruction.Attendees will leave with a strategic framework for building credential-driven programs that expand opportunity, increase student engagement, and strengthen workforce readiness — particularly in rural or resource-limited communities.
Stronger Together highlights how Washington’s career counselors and employment readiness professionals can move from working in isolation to building a connected, statewide support system. By sharing knowledge, expanding opportunities, and embracing collective responsibility, participants learn practical ways to collaborate, strengthen networks, and better support students facing complex challenges—because together, we can create greater impact than any program alone.
This session explores the development of the Renewable Energy Vehicle and Infrastructure Technician (REVIT) program, a future‑ready clean energy pathway co‑designed with industry and educators to prepare students for careers in renewable energy, hydrogen technologies, and sustainable infrastructure. Learn how REVIT blends project‑based learning, NGSS, and CTE standards to create a coherent, multi‑credit sequence that builds real‑world problem‑solving and workforce skills. Participants will leave with curriculum, resources, and practical insights to adapt this work in their own contexts.
Authentic student-run enterprises require more than participation — they require structure. This session explores how to intentionally design leadership systems within school-based enterprises that move students from workers to managers. Participants will learn how to create defined leadership roles, develop training and succession systems, build accountability structures, and cultivate student ownership within real business operations.Using a rural high school enterprise model as a case study, this session provides practical frameworks for empowering students with authentic responsibility while maintaining program sustainability. Attendees will leave with adaptable tools to strengthen leadership development in any CTE pathway.
Career paths are rarely linear. Mentors, experiences, and unexpected opportunities often shape the journey. This session invites participants to reflect on the stories behind their own careers and explore how those insights can support mentorship and student engagement. Participants will examine how storytelling can help students connect interests, skills, and experiences to potential career pathways.
