WA-ACTE 2026 Summer Conference has ended

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WA-ACTE 2026 Summer Conference

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Liz Oakes

Puyallup School District

CTE Teacher - Business & Marketing & Career Choices

7:30am PDT

Registration Open WA-ACTE Office

8:00am PDT

Breakfast Grand Ballroom A,B,C

9:00am PDT

Opening Session: Hope. Opportunity. Tenacity: The Mindset That Shapes Futures Grand Ballroom A,B,CRoss Short • Niki Spears • Michelle Spenser

11:00am PDT

OSPI HOT Updates in Mini-Sessions Cedar BallroomHolli Ryan-Kalaleh

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Grand Ballroom A,B,C

1:00pm PDT

Building Vision, Hope and Momentum with Future Pathway Alignment - Tips, tricks and tactics for driving student engagement with career pathways. Meeting Room # 2Ryan Chun • Tyler Lafferty Digital Badges for Career Readiness: Validating Skills & Pathways in the Creative Economy Workforce Meeting Room # 1Nicole Hendrix • Darlene Edouard

2:00pm PDT

Getting Students College and Career Ready with Stackable, Industry-Recognized Credentials Meeting Room #10Daniel Bird • Aaron Peasley

4:00pm PDT

Too Hot for? : AI-Integrated Frameworks with a HOT Approach Birch BallroomHolli Ryan-Kalaleh

8:00am PDT

Breakfast Grand Ballroom A,B,C

9:00am PDT

DECA Update Terrace WestMarian Morris

10:00am PDT

The Game Plan: How Games Develop Collaboration, Creativity, and Critical Thinking Maple BallroomJessica Elshire-Kenny • Heather Matsuda

11:00am PDT

Teaching Presentation Excellence with a Plug and Play Instructional Suite Terrace WestMarian Morris

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Grand Ballroom A,B,C

2:00pm PDT

Teacher-Parent Toolbelt: EdTech Hacks for Life & Learning Meeting Room # 3Rena Clark How WBW builds mentorship and work based learning into the school year, and how you can too Meeting Room #11Nick Quinlan

3:00pm PDT

Not Another AI Demo: The Skills Your Students Actually Need in an AI World Meeting Room #11Nick Quinlan

8:00am PDT

Breakfast Grand Ballroom A,B,C WE-BAM Networking Breakfast Birch Ballroom

9:00am PDT

Become a Superhero with Canva Maple BallroomRena Clark

10:00am PDT

The Safe-to-Fail Lab: Resilience over Perfection Birch BallroomMeloni Courtway

11:00am PDT

Students as Managers: Building Leadership Systems in School-Based Enterprises and Classrooms Meeting Room #11Taryn Veloni

12:00pm PDT

Closing Session and Wrap up! Grand Ballroom A,B,C