The Illinois Future Business Leaders of American (FBLA) State Leadership Conference will be held April 3-4, 2009 at the Decatur Conference Center & Hotel, Decatur, Illinois.  All Illinois FBLA student organizations are encouraged to attend.

 

For specific details, contact Darlene Shannon, Illlinois FBLA-PBL State Chair, shannon1@midwest.net.

 

The Illinois Phi Beta Lambda State Conference will be held April 3-4, 2009, at the Keller Convention Center in Effingham, Illinois.

 

For additional details, contact Tina Dierkes at tina.dierkes@swic.edu.

 

 

Come to the 2009 NAWI Conference to learn best practices from colleagues in CTE and related fields and to expand your network to be more successful in your current and future work. We guarantee that you will have an opportunity for enjoyable learning and sharing! The Conference Registration Form is available online and the hotel reservation deadline is March 24, 2009, 5:00 p.m.

 

 

You are invited to submit a proposal for presenting at the 2009 NAWI conference.

This year’s conference at the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale, AZ, will focus on Building Tomorrow’s Workforce Through Career and Technical Education. We are seeking to identify a variety of approaches that support the conference theme to help teachers, workforce developers, counselors, administrators, and business partners meet the challenges of the future.

Conference attendees include staff from secondary schools, community colleges, and technical institutes, as well as government leaders in workforce development and representatives of business, industry, and labor. We invite you to participate in the conference and to submit your most innovative idea as a possible presentation. Session proposals that include supporting data/statistics will receive top consideration.

Presentations may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• CTE Programs of Study
• Technical and 21st Century Skills Assessments
• CTE’s Role in Developing the Creative Worker
• Modern Integrated STEM Initiatives
• Emerging Technologies Including Environmental Technologies
• Value Driven Secondary to Postsecondary Articulation Processes

For more information, please visit the Proposal Submission page of our website.

April 29, 2009
Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 25
4600 Blackhawk Road
Rock Island, IL 61201

 

Participants of this hands-on workshop will experience the resources available at www.ilcte.org and explore ways to use them in their specific classrooms.