2025 NCE Conference

This session equips CTE staff with strategies to build industry connections and create career opportunities for students.

Learn how our Career Center developed an Industry Partnership "Menu," offering varying levels of engagement—from minimal involvement to full partnership. In addition, our successful Hiring Fair model will also be outlined, where students participate in mini-job interviews with industry partners.

A step-by-step guide will cover planning, outreach, and execution, ensuring you can implement this initiative in your school. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to:
• Build industry partnerships tailored to business needs.
• Implement a Hiring Fair that connects students to career opportunities.
• Strengthen workforce readiness in CTE programs.

Join this session for practical insights and take-home tools to enhance your school’s career readiness efforts.

NSBEA Officer Meeting

LED video boards are more than just a game-day tool—they’re a dynamic way to enhance student learning, content creation, and real-world skill development. This session will explore how to integrate graphic design, video production, sponsorship management, and game-day operations into your media program, connecting classroom learning to hands-on experience.

Attendees will gain:

Three ready-to-use lessons for student-led projects.
Strategies for creating player intro and hype videos to engage fans and students.
Best practices for sponsorship integration to teach marketing and business skills.

Discover how your LED video board can become a powerful educational tool, preparing students for careers in digital media, sports marketing, and live event production.

Every school has a story to tell, and social media is the most powerful tool to share it.

But what if students took the lead?

This session will explore how educators can integrate social media marketing into the classroom, empowering students to create content, analyze engagement data, and refine strategies—just like real-world marketers.

We’ll dive into:

✔ Content Creation – Teaching students to produce engaging videos, graphics, and copy.
✔ Analytics & Strategy – Using real-time metrics (views, engagement, impressions) to measure success.
✔ Branding & Consistency – Developing templates and guidelines for school-wide social media identity.

From highlighting student achievements to promoting events and boosting community engagement, this session will provide actionable strategies to help educators connect media education with career-ready skills in digital marketing.

Providing CTE educators with new ideas/options to allow for students with disabilities to gain skills and understanding in their courses while providing them appropriate modifications and accommodations to ensure the student is engaged in the learning process.

Inviting Local Businesses and Industry professionals to share what they do and how they do it makes career connections meaningful. I would like to share the successes that I have experienced through building a day each week that I call "Trades Tuesdays". Each week we host a new business and industry participant to present to my classes. The presentations are fun, interactive, educational and help bridge the gap between our students making future career decisions and those in the local community who are looking for future prospects. Students get to hear about careers from folks who really take pride in what they do and can express what employability means. We will also use this time to discuss and collaborate strategies that could help other teachers adapt days like this into their curriculum as well.

Join us for an interactive session where you’ll discover fun, engaging strategies to guide middle school students through self-discovery and career exploration. Focus areas include self-reflection, career readiness, career exploration, and communication. You’ll leave with a “classroom in a box”—many ready-to-use lessons for any career cluster, from healthcare to technology, to agriculture to business. Equip your students with the skills and confidence to start their career journeys today!

Learn how Cross County and David City high schools created student-run coffee businesses through hands-on learning. In the fall of 2024, Cross County’s special education and FCS departments launched Cougar Coffee, a collaborative effort to bring work-based learning to students. Meanwhile, David City’s culinary class developed a school-based coffee enterprise. This session will cover business planning, menu development, operations, and financial management while highlighting student roles, career activities, and key lessons learned. Gain practical strategies and inspiration to start or enhance your own school-based enterprise.

In the 2023-2024 school year the Youth Health Equity Project was created and implemented by NE Extension and NE FCCLA with funding from the NE Office of Health Disparities. The goal of the project was for youth to investigate local health issues such as mental health, food insecurity, traffic safety, and vaping. A curriculum is being developed with lessons on conducting community needs assessments, working in youth adult partnerships and sharing research findings. Activities encourage youth to practice advocacy and engage in public health skills through project-based learning. Join us to learn about this resource and how to participate in the curriculum pilot testing.

This session will cover current events and hot topics you can bring into your classroom that students want to talk about! Lesson demos will be provided!