2025 ISBE Career Connections Conference

2025 ISBE Career Connections Conference

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7:30am CDT

Continential Breakfast

7:30am CDT

Registration

8:30am CDT

Welcome and Opening Session

10:05am CDT

Break

10:20am CDT

Give Me TEN: A Business-First Approach to Work-Based Learning

10:20am CDT

Validate Your Student's Skills with Certification

10:20am CDT

Building Rural CTE through Energy & Climate Resilience

10:20am CDT

CTE and SEL

10:20am CDT

CTE Instructional Design: Horace Mann Meets ChatGBT

10:20am CDT

How to Operate a Student-Run Apparel Decorating Business

10:20am CDT

Integrating Career and Technical Education Pathways and Instructional Leadership Team: A Case Study at Curie High School

10:20am CDT

ISBE Technical Assistance

10:20am CDT

Lessons Learned Building a Regional Work-Based Learning HUB

10:20am CDT

Taking Career Readiness to New Heights with Drones

10:20am CDT

The GPEAK System: Essential skills resources, assessments, and training for educators

10:20am CDT

What is SkillsUSA?

11:10am CDT

Lunch

12:10pm CDT

16 and 17 Year olds: The Truth About Employment and Internships

12:10pm CDT

AI & the Future of Work: Preparing CTE Students for the New Economy

12:10pm CDT

Bridging Skills and Opportunities: Integrating the Seal of Biliteracy within CTE programs

12:10pm CDT

Building Skills That Add Up: Mathematics Integration in CTE

12:10pm CDT

Exploring the Game of Life: Making it Fun, But Keeping It Real

12:10pm CDT

Introducing SkillsUSA Illinois’ Work-based Learning Platform

12:10pm CDT

Law and Public Safety Pathways - everything you need to know (and then some)!

12:10pm CDT

Math Pathways and Corequisites for Technical Math

12:10pm CDT

PaCE Overview

12:10pm CDT

Stay Lit: Unlocking the Secret to Keeping High Schoolers Engaged

12:10pm CDT

Taking Back the Trades! Trades School Grant Program Recipient Panel

12:10pm CDT

The Current State of CS CTE in Illinois: Findings and Future Directions

1:00pm CDT

Break

1:10pm CDT

Claim Your Future: Linking Today’s Educational Choices to Future Careers and Financial Stability

1:10pm CDT

Exploring STEM Careers with Learning Blade: A Free Resource Illinois Educators

1:10pm CDT

First Impressions Matter: Equipping Teachers to Guide Students for Job Interviews

1:10pm CDT

Framework for Standing Up and Growing a Work-Based Learning/Internship Program

1:10pm CDT

Illinois Business Education Association updates for all business and computer science educators

1:10pm CDT

Leverage Free Statewide EdTech Services to Maximize Impact

1:10pm CDT

Maximizing EFE Systems: Roles, Benefits, and Collaboration Strategies

1:10pm CDT

New Resources for Educators Planning Team-Based Challenges

1:10pm CDT

Policy to Practice: Guidelines, Strategies, and Challenges of Applying for and Implementing CCPEs

1:10pm CDT

Reimagining Internships: Portfolio-Based Approaches

1:10pm CDT

Supporting the Transition of Future Teachers Through the Redbird Educator Scholars Program

1:10pm CDT

Urban Roots: "Cultivating Urban Agriculture for a Sustainable Future"

2:00pm CDT

Vendor Showcase and Networking Break

2:30pm CDT

Break

2:40pm CDT

Achieving a 100% Quality Program of Study: The Nine Components

2:40pm CDT

Alumni Career Connection

2:40pm CDT

Embracing the Power of Cooperative Purchasing with the Illinois Learning Technology Purchasing Program (ILTPP)

2:40pm CDT

Explore Multiple Paths: D128's Multi-Prong Approach to College & Career Readiness

2:40pm CDT

Finding Free and Easy Resources for Developing Work-Based Learning Plan

2:40pm CDT

Guiding Teen Girls to Leadership Success: Strategies for Developing Leader Identity

2:40pm CDT

ISBE Technical Assistance

2:40pm CDT

PaCE Yourself with CIS360’s Work-Based Learning Tracker

2:40pm CDT

Social Emotional Learning - Broken to be Made

2:40pm CDT

Tailoring Career and Technical Education (CTE) for ALL Learners

2:40pm CDT

The Dual Credit Equity and Access Grant Experience

2:40pm CDT

The Power of Partnerships: Enhancing Postsecondary Success Through Dual Credit and Career Academy Collaboration