What is Career Technical Education (CTE)?

Career Technical Education provides students with real world 21st century skills that make them career and college ready. CTE provides students with not only career and academic skills, but soft skills that are needed for the modern workplace, such as: critical thinking; communication; team work; citizenship, integrity, and ethical leadership; research tools; creativity; and innovation. CTE pathways involve a multiyear sequence of courses that integrates core academic knowledge with technical and occupational knowledge in that field.