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Looking for high-value professional development for CTE educators? Have additional Perkins funds to spend? Join hundreds of CTE educators and professionals at this year’s ISBE Career Connections Conference!

Participants will hear from industry professionals as part of the Work-Based Learning: Perspectives on Partnering with Industry Leaders panel. For information on the panelists, please visit the ISBE Career Connections Conference website.

Registration for ISBE Career Connections 2024 continues! A discount is available for groups of 5 or more educators from the same school district, community college, or other organization. Pricing information as well as the link to the registration page is available on the ISBE Career Connections Conference website.

The Educational Coaching Network (ECN) is excited to announce its slate of professional learning opportunities for the 2024-25 school year. Registration is open now!

The Foundations of Instructional Coaching Institute with Jim Knight and Michelle Harris is a series of five workshops about coaching, instruction, and collaboration. This is a great opportunity to train new coaches, get teams on the same page, and create a culture of coaching. With five sessions, this Institute promotes long-term, lasting learning over the course of the year.

In February and March, we will once again offer a series of Advanced Coaching and Leadership Workshops featuring Jim Knight and Mary Webb. The topics include Advanced Coaching Skills, System Design, and two days on Coaching for Leaders. Participants can sign up for one workshop or for the entire series to receive a discount.

The annual ECN Conference will feature Diane Sweeney and Student-Centered Coaching on April 24, 2025. This one-day event brings together coaches and administrators from across the region to dive deeply into this one aspect of instructional coaching.

All ECN events are located at NIU Naperville. Discounts are available for teams and early registration. As always, registration includes ample food and parking, books and materials, and Professional Development Hours.

You're invited to register now to join other equity designers as we come together at the 2024 College Changes Everything (CCE) conference – Community Health on July 18, 2024, at the Tinley Park Convention Center.

Equity continues to be at the heart of the CCE conference as we strive to ensure all students have opportunities for college access and success and they are career ready. This year we consider the role of community health on educational equity. As we champion CCE to highlight how education is an essential component of other policy areas, we need to highlight the role community health plays in advancing educational equity for Illinois students and families.

Have you and your teachers checked out the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Summer Professional Learning Calendar?

With only one exception, the ISBE Career Connections Conference on June 18, 2024, all of these workshops are free to attend, and the calendar includes a mix of in-person and online workshops on a wide range of topics. These workshops are geared toward meeting the needs of CTE teachers, though all teachers, counselors, and administrators are also welcome to attend.

Workshops begin in just over one week, so register today!

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