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Saturday
, August 1
Birch Ballroom
8:00am •
WA-ACTE Executive Board Meeting
5:30pm •
WA-ACTE President Board Dinner
Cedar Ballroom
8:00am •
CTE Director Program
Maple Ballroom
1:00pm •
WACTA Executive Board Meeting
3:30pm •
WACTA Business Meeting
Meeting Room # 1
1:00pm •
WE-BAM Board Meeting
Meeting Room # 2
1:00pm •
WITEA Board Meeting
Meeting Room # 7
3:30pm •
HSCTE Board Meeting
Sunday
, August 2
Ballroom 100, Convention Center
5:30pm •
🌟 Celebrating Our Stars: WA-ACTE Awards & Recognition Gala
Birch Ballroom
10:00am •
Keeping It Simple Stupid: K.I.S.S. strategies for success in CTE programs.
1:00pm •
Building Future-Ready STEM Pathways with Sphero
2:00pm •
Dysregulation, Dissociation, and Discombobulation: Understanding Brain Science and Its Impact on Student Learning and Behavior
Cedar Ballroom
10:00am •
WA ACTE New Member Meet & Greet
11:00am •
Burnout Is Not a Badge of Honor: Protecting Decision Quality and Ethical Practice in Professional Settings
1:00pm •
CTE Bootcamp: A Crash Course for the New-to-CTE Family
Daveport Grand Lobby
8:00am •
Section Tables
FlatStick Pub
6:30pm •
WITEA Member Social
Grand Ballroom A,B,C
8:00am •
Breakfast
9:00am •
WA-ACTE Summer Conference Welcome!
12:00pm •
Lunch
12:00pm •
Exhibitor Show Open
4:00pm •
Vendor Social
Maple Ballroom
10:00am •
CTE Dual Credit Transformation & Alignment Initiatives
1:00pm •
Punch Positive : The Missing Link Between Engagement, Resilience, and Real-World Performance
Meeting Room # 1
11:00am •
LIFESMARTS - Curriculum, State and National Competition and the GAME
3:00pm •
Finding Your Flock: Connecting Computer Science Educators Across Washington
Meeting Room # 2
10:00am •
“You Can’t Be What You Can’t See”: Expanding Career Awareness in Rural Communities
1:00pm •
Body Tissue Types Dissection Lab
Meeting Room # 3
10:00am •
Building Professional Communication Skills for Students
1:00pm •
Ignite Learning with Laser Precision: Empowering Classrooms with xTool P2S
2:00pm •
Agri-Tech Infrastructure: Engineering Sustainable Workforce Labs with the Garden Caterpillar
Meeting Room # 4
10:00am •
Bringing Business, Personal Finance, and Career Readiness Together
11:00am •
Ideas for a Student Ran Enterprise
1:00pm •
Professionalizing AI Use in the Classroom: From Prompts to Workflows
3:00pm •
Future‑Ready STEM Starts Here: Why PLTW Leads the Way
Meeting Room # 5
10:00am •
How Do WE Manage the Classroom
11:00am •
Leveraging SchooLinks Potential to Support CTE Programs & Industry Connections
Meeting Room # 7
9:00am •
Adult CPR/AED/First Aid
Meeting Room #10
10:00am •
Vocabulary in Action
11:00am •
Money Decisions Start Early: Engaging Activities for Middle School CTE
1:00pm •
Voices in Policy: WA-ACTE Legislative Review & Priority Setting
2:00pm •
Empowering the Community: A Student-Centered Approach to IRCs & WBL
3:00pm •
Boost CTE Enrollment & Build Your Community Talent Pipeline
Meeting Room #11
1:00pm •
Why Good People Burn Out: What Great Teams Do Differently
Meeting Room #12
10:00am •
AI Empowered Presentations That Don’t Suck
11:00am •
Get Kids Hooked on The Right Drugs
1:00pm •
What happened to the 3rd R (Rigor)???
2:00pm •
Framing Failure to Facilitate Future Fruition
3:00pm •
Stukent CTE - Courses, Simternships, Certification Prep, & Certifications
Northwest Package
10:00am •
CANCELLED - Building Career-Connected Classrooms: Integrating Washington's Creative Economy into Your Curriculum
Skybridge Boardroom
7:00am •
WA-FACSE Board Meeting
Terrace East
10:00am •
Prescribing Success with iCEV Health Science
11:00am •
Bring Career Pathways to life: Hands-On Learning for Tomorrow’s Workforce
1:00pm •
From Basic Circuits to Industrial Automation: Building Student Skills Through Hands-On Learning
Terrace West
10:00am •
Amplify Student Success Using MBA Research Resources and AI Tools for FBLA Competitive Events
11:00am •
Level Up to Win: AI + MBA Research for DECA Success
1:00pm •
EGMS Perkins Grants & CLNA Working Session
WA-ACTE Office
8:00am •
Registration Open
Monday
, August 3
Birch Ballroom
11:00am •
OSPI HOT Updates in Mini-Sessions
1:00pm •
Too Hot for Silos: Turning Up the Heat on STEM Integration
2:00pm •
Too Hot to Horse Around: Turning up the Heat on Agriculture in CTE
3:00pm •
Too Hot for Electives: Turning Up the Heat on Art as CTE
4:00pm •
Too Hot for? : AI-Integrated Frameworks with a HOT Approach
Cedar Ballroom
11:00am •
OSPI HOT Updates in Mini-Sessions
1:00pm •
Building Tenacity: A Deeper Dive into The Energy Map
3:00pm •
New CTE Director Resources
4:00pm •
OSPI Statewide Update: Policy, Priorities, and What's Ahead
Daveport Grand Lobby
11:00am •
Section Tables
FlatStick Pub
6:00pm •
WA-FACSE Social Event
Grand Ballroom A,B,C
8:00am •
Breakfast
9:00am •
Opening Session: Hope. Opportunity. Tenacity: The Mindset That Shapes Futures
9:00am •
Exhibitor Show Open
11:00am •
WA-ACTE Blood Drive
12:00pm •
Lunch
Maple Ballroom
11:00am •
OSPI HOT Updates in Mini-Sessions
2:00pm •
Course Launch Lab
3:00pm •
Beyond the Checkbox: Advisory Boards that Deliver
4:00pm •
Running a T-Shirt Student Based Enterprise
Meeting Room # 1
11:00am •
OSPI HOT Updates in Mini-Sessions
1:00pm •
Digital Badges for Career Readiness: Validating Skills & Pathways in the Creative Economy Workforce
2:00pm •
Work Shop Maintenance & Safety Training
4:00pm •
CTE as a Literacy Bridge: Integrating Career and Technical Education to Support Language Acquisition and Academic Success
Meeting Room # 2
1:00pm •
Building Vision, Hope and Momentum with Future Pathway Alignment - Tips, tricks and tactics for driving student engagement with career pathways.
2:00pm •
The value of advisory boards for educator preparation programs
3:00pm •
CANCELLED - The New Career Bridge: 7,000 Pathways, One Tool for Your Classroom
Meeting Room # 3
1:00pm •
CTE Reporting - Equivalencies, Industry Recognized Certifications and Work Based Learning
2:00pm •
Sex Trafficking Prevention and Awareness for the Education Community
3:00pm •
CANCELLED - Clearing the Path: Policy, Practice, and Youth Access to Healthcare Work
3:00pm •
Expanding Health Science Pathways: Bringing Dentistry to High School Programs
4:00pm •
Industry 4.0 Credentials for Engineering, Manufacturing, Automation, & Robotics
Meeting Room # 4
2:00pm •
Solve the Case: The Healthcare Roles Your Students Are Missing
3:00pm •
CTElink Framework Builder: Create, Review, and Export OSPI-Ready Course Frameworks
Meeting Room # 5
1:00pm •
Robotics! Mechatronics!
3:00pm •
Preparing CTE Educators: Accessible Certification Pathways Through CWU
Meeting Room #10
2:00pm •
Getting Students College and Career Ready with Stackable, Industry-Recognized Credentials
Meeting Room #11
1:00pm •
"Finfluencers": Fantastic free financial advice you can take to the bank? Or are you (or your students) getting taken?
3:00pm •
WA State Registered Apprenticeship
4:00pm •
Skate4Concrete Certification an Example of Implementation
Meeting Room #12
1:00pm •
CTE Dual Credit Transformation & Alignment Initiatives
2:00pm •
CTE Dual Credit Transformation & Alignment Initiatives
Terrace East
11:00am •
OSPI HOT Updates in Mini-Sessions
1:00pm •
From Framework to Implementation: Exploring AP Business with Personal Finance (Part 1)
2:00pm •
From Framework to Implementation: Exploring AP Business with Personal Finance (Part 2)
3:00pm •
Advanced Strategies for Using the MBA Research Learning Center
Terrace West
11:00am •
OSPI HOT Updates in Mini-Sessions
2:00pm •
Design Thinking for the Workforce Pipeline: From Data to Action
WA-ACTE Office
7:30am •
Registration Open
Tuesday
, August 4
Birch Ballroom
9:00am •
Beyond Points: Implementing Competency-Based Grading and Employability Skills Across Career Pathways
10:00am •
Worksite Learning Intro and Updates
11:00am •
Understanding Federal Child Labor Student Learner Laws and Requirements
12:00pm •
Summer WE-BAM Members Meeting
2:00pm •
Beyond the Classroom: The Power of the Simulated Workplace Model
Cedar Ballroom
9:00am •
Learning Standards Review and Revision Project Updates
10:00am •
Google Forms Tips and Tricks for Efficiency & Engagement.
12:00pm •
WA-FACSE Awards Luncheon
2:00pm •
Financial Education Learning Standards Update and Input Opportunity
3:00pm •
Unlocking Safety
Grand Ballroom A,B,C
8:00am •
Breakfast
8:15am •
National CTE Update: Trends, Advocacy, and Opportunities from National ACTE
12:00pm •
Lunch
Maple Ballroom
9:00am •
Fueling the People Who Fuel the School
10:00am •
The Game Plan: How Games Develop Collaboration, Creativity, and Critical Thinking
11:00am •
QTIP : Connection without Exhaustion
Meeting Room # 1
9:00am •
Equity at Sea: Expanding Access to Maritime Career and Technical Education Through Strategic Partnerships
10:00am •
Canceled: From Blank Framework to Standards-Aligned Framework: Using AI in CTE
11:00am •
Cardboard Arcades: Creativity, Engineering, and Engagement
2:00pm •
FREE Industry Certifications...With my Library Card?
Meeting Room # 2
9:00am •
Generational Care - Preparing Health Science Students to Work with All Populations
10:00am •
Washington HOSA - Future Health Professionals Updates
11:00am •
The Future of Nursing Assistant Programs in High Schools and High School Partnerships
12:00pm •
HSCTE Business Lunch
2:00pm •
WCTSMA: Navigating the CTSO
Meeting Room # 3
10:00am •
Building Opportunity: CTE Meets College in the High School in Workforce Training
11:00am •
Using Data to Improve Your District's CTE Course Catalog
12:00pm •
WA-CCER Board Meeting and Awards Luncheon
2:00pm •
Teacher-Parent Toolbelt: EdTech Hacks for Life & Learning
3:00pm •
CTE Office Hours
Meeting Room # 4
9:00am •
Equity in Arts Education: Data-Driven Insights
10:00am •
Frustrations with communication between Administrators and Instructors. What are they thinking?
11:00am •
SchooLinks for the CTE Classroom
2:00pm •
Building a Careers in Education Pathway: From Classroom to College Credit
3:00pm •
The Coaching Academy: Building a Careers in Education Course for Coaches
Meeting Room # 5
9:00am •
Support Staff: Behind the Scenes of Success -How WBL Support Staff Empower CTE Programs
10:00am •
Support Staff: Navigating General & Program Advisory Committees A Support Staff Road Map
11:00am •
Support Staff Connections: Collaborate, Learn, and Network (Support Staff only)
2:00pm •
Targeted by Design: Using SchooLinks to Build Intentional Work-Based Learning Programs
3:00pm •
Honoring Every Pathway: How Data Reshaped College and Career Center Programming
Meeting Room #10
9:00am •
FBLA 2027 Kick Start
10:00am •
STEM Camp/STEM Night Activities
3:00pm •
Financial Literacy FUNdamentals: Free Resources to Engage Students
Meeting Room #11
9:00am •
CTE Dual Credit - How Do You Explain That To Kids?
10:00am •
Free Financial Education Competition with Mentorship and Scholarship Award
11:00am •
Free Financial Education Guest Speakers for your Classroom
2:00pm •
How WBW builds mentorship and work based learning into the school year, and how you can too
3:00pm •
Not Another AI Demo: The Skills Your Students Actually Need in an AI World
Meeting Room #12
9:00am •
AI That Thinks With Students, Not For Them
10:00am •
Chatting with Stacy: Build Your Own AI Assistant for Planning, Communication, and Classroom Workflow
11:00am •
From Light to Image: Build and Use a Digital Pinhole Camera in Your Classroom
Terrace East
9:00am •
Project Management with Scrum
10:00am •
From Classroom to Crisis: How to Respond When a Student Discloses Substance Use
2:00pm •
Adobe Express Luminary Training update
3:00pm •
Why Your Program Needs Data, Not Just Instinct
Terrace West
9:00am •
DECA Update
10:00am •
AP Business & Personal Finance Integration Strategies for Your Chapter/Classroom
11:00am •
Teaching Presentation Excellence with a Plug and Play Instructional Suite
Wednesday
, August 5
Birch Ballroom
8:00am •
WE-BAM Networking Breakfast
9:00am •
From SuperShy to SuperStar
10:00am •
The Safe-to-Fail Lab: Resilience over Perfection
Cedar Ballroom
9:00am •
Redesigning Career Connected Learning: Moving from Programs to Systems
10:00am •
Expanding Opportunity: Ensuring All Students Access Career-Connected Learning
11:00am •
What Got Me Here: Using Career Stories to Strengthen Mentorship
Grand Ballroom A,B,C
8:00am •
Breakfast
12:00pm •
Closing Session and Wrap up!
Maple Ballroom
8:00am •
CANCELED - WA-FACSE Business Meeting
9:00am •
Become a Superhero with Canva
10:00am •
The Benefits of Authoritative Instruction
Meeting Room # 1
9:00am •
Beyond the Club: Embedding HOSA into Everyday Instruction
10:00am •
From BACE to Beyond: Industry-Aligned Biotech Credentials to Strengthen Career Pathways
11:00am •
Effect of vocational retraining alignment on injured workers’ motivation and well-being, and its application to Career and Technical Education in Washington State
Meeting Room # 2
9:00am •
From Data to Decisions: Teacher-Driven AI Workflows That Save Time and Improve Results
10:00am •
CTE Office Hours
11:00am •
How to Speak "Business" : An Insider's View to Connect to Employers
Meeting Room # 3
9:00am •
Reflect, Redirect, and Respond: The importance of student voice and how to take and use feedback in the classroom.
10:00am •
Stronger Together: Building a Statewide Network to Empower Student Success
11:00am •
AI Integration in the Classroom (NOT another class on prompting).
Meeting Room # 4
10:00am •
Aligning Industry, CTE, and Academics: A Replicable Model for Multi‑Credit Courses
11:00am •
REVIT: Preparing Students for the Clean‑Energy Workforce
Meeting Room # 5
9:00am •
Longitudinal Career Exposure: Supporting Students from Middle School to Graduation
10:00am •
Responsible AI in Action: Interdisciplinary AI Toolkit
Meeting Room #11
9:00am •
From Classroom to Company: Weaving Entrepreneurship Into Every CTE Program
10:00am •
From Classroom to Credential: Designing CTE Programs With Tangible Outcomes
11:00am •
Students as Managers: Building Leadership Systems in School-Based Enterprises and Classrooms
Thursday
, August 6
TBA
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