Awards

The K-ACTE Excellence Awards Program seeks to promote Career and Technical Education excellence by recognizing individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to their fields. These individuals exemplify the highest standards and have conducted activities to promote and expand career and technical education.

The State Awards Program is modeled on the ACTE Program.

State winners will be eligible to proceed to the regional and national competitions, with the exception of Kansas’s only awards: Young Teacher of the Year, Award of Merit, and Policymaker of the Year.

In Kansas, candidates for the Member Excellence Awards progress through four rounds of review:

• Affiliate Round: Candidates begin the application process by nominating themselves (or being nominated by a peer) for their affiliate award. Candidates must hold the appropriate position at the time of initial nomination (ex. be a secondary school CTE teacher if applying for the Teacher of the Year.) Deadlines vary for applications to the affiliates.
• State Round: Affiliate winners will have the opportunity to complete the state application process for their award. Candidates must hold the appropriate position at the time of initial nomination (ex. be a secondary school CTE teacher if applying for the Teacher of the Year.) Applications are due by the state deadline of June 1.
• Region Round: State winners move forward for consideration within their Regions. All state winners must have their applications uploaded to the ACTE Awards Portal and be ACTE members by the March 1 Region deadline (nonmembers are not eligible to receive Region or national awards). Region winners are selected by their Region awards committees and announced during their Region conferences.
• National Round: Region winners’ applications are forwarded to the final round of review via the Awards Portal by their Region committee chair. The national ACTE Awards Committee selects the national winners, which are announced at the ACTE Awards Banquet during ACTE’s CareerTech VISION.