2025 ISBE Career Connections Conference

Dr. Thomas Washburn is the Executive Director of LAPSEN. He retired from three decades in education. He has consulted in CTE in hundreds of schools, He was an advisor for SkillsUSA where he had two national officers, twelve state officers, SkillsUSA National Model of Excellence winner and three time finalist, 14 national medalist, over 200 state champions and was runner up for the national Advisor of the Year award. He has won various awards such as the Stanford University Sterling Award for Academic Achievement, AJC Millennium Honor Teacher, ABA LRE Award of Excellence, TIEGA Teacher of the Year, Fulton County Schools High School Teacher of the Year, plus 20+ other awards and honors. He was the first Law and Public Safety CTE teacher to be National Board Certified. His dissertation studied the induction process for law and public safety teachers. He was mandated at the North Central Georgia Police Academy.