CTE Program Approval
These documents are developed by the Colorado Community College System office to help educators build and sustain high quality CTE programs. All documents listed below should be uploaded as a PDF into the program approval system by September 15th annually.
State approved course titles - This is a comprehensive list of CTE approved course titles and descriptions. These are the only courses that are eligible for CTE funding, use this as a menu to determine courses you will offer in your CTE program area.
Program Quality Action Plan– A Program Quality Action Plan needs to be reviewed and uploaded. Use this program evaluation framework to help you review critical elements of your CTE program. This can also help identify potential areas of growth to strategically address. For more information, the pdf version or online tool, visit ACTE’s website.
Advisory Committee Roster- This is the roster of your community industry representatives. It should include names, titles, company, position on the committee, etc. PSD has established advisory committees for most CTE programs, please reach out to your lead teacher to add/edit the member list.
51% of the voting members are from business and industry, and the committee represents gender and ethnic diversity in the community.
Advisory Program of Work Template – The program quality evaluation tool can help guide your planning by your Advisory committee. You will upload this document as well.
The Program of Work is informed by areas of growth per your Program Quality Action Plan. The guidance requires the committee has met two times in the past 12 months.
Since this is new guidance for 2020, this year you will review this year’s advisory committee meeting minutes and determine the two or three specific projects / goals that the committee was focused on. Next year and beyond you can use this document as a tool to help guide your committee’s important work.
Work-based Learning Employer Agreement/Training Plan - See your WBL Coordinator at your school for sample documents to upload. Students that participate in a work-based learning experience that is 30 hours in length total related to their CTE program qualify and meet the WBL quality metric.
Students in your CTE Program should be enrolled in the related Work-based Learning course if they are participating in any of the following outside of scheduled class time:
Capstone Projects
SBE (School-Based Enterprise) i.e. coffee cart, student store, concessions
Internships, apprenticeships, paid-work, or a long-term volunteer position
CTSO program of work - High-quality CTE programs establish and maintain a state or nationally affiliated Career & Technical Student Organization (CTSO) related to their instructional area or a local CTSO. For all CTSOs, please upload CTSO Program of Work. The program of work is a document setting out the sequence and timetabling of work to be done in your chapter. Most of your schools have an established program of work which guides and substantiates your FCCLA, SkillUSA, TSA, SC2, FBLA or DECA chapter. You will upload that document into the program approval system. There is no set template for this one, you may use whatever format you choose or have already established.
Please see attached documents for guidance. If you need further assistance please reach out to our office.
Program of Work - PSD Template
Program of Work - TSA Sample
*If using a local CTSO (Not using National affiliation of FBLA, DECA, FCCLA, SkillsUSA, TSA, SC2) upload bylaws, member list, and officer list. If you have multiple documents, combine them into one file for upload.
CTE Educator Qualifications - This is not an upload, but be prepared to have the credential number for each teacher in your CTE Program to upload. You can access teacher qualifications at teh CDE credential look up website.
