Success by Design with Guests Tammy Bonner and Jennifer Brooks

In this episode of the NCLA podcast, Tammy Bonner and Jennifer Brooks share grassroots efforts to statewide consortia and current partnerships in Arizona. Our guests address best practices and strategies that CTE leaders should consider when planning for career and technical education programs in schools and districts. Tammy Bonner is currently the Director of the Arizona CTE Curriculum Consortium. As the Director she manages the development of the AZCTECC curriculum resources and provides professional development to CTE teachers across Arizona. Before moving to Career and Technical Education at Pima JTED and then to the AZ CTE Curriculum Consortium, she began her career in the dental industry. She received her BA in Organizational Leadership through Arizona State University and is driven to advocate for CTE and help teachers succeed in their classrooms. She is currently a member of ACTE and an ACTEAZ Fellow. Jennifer currently serves as the Assistant Director of the Arizona CTE Curriculum Consortium.  Prior to that, she was the Director of Curriculum and Instruction as well as an Instructional Specialist at West-MEC, a CTE District in the West Valley of Phoenix.  She began her career in education straight from industry teaching CTE (Business, Marketing, and Culinary Arts) for eleven years.  A former purchasing agent for a Fortune 500 Oil Company and pastry chef at Marriott,  Jennifer embraced her role as a teacher and continued to pursue education earning her Masters in Career & Technical Education in 2006.  Jennifer is a passionate advocate for quality teaching & learning and champions many initiatives at the Consortium designed to support CTE teachers and programs.  She strongly believes in the value of the CTE Delivery Model and the life-changing opportunities that CTE programs provide to students. To learn more about these efforts and to connect with Tammy and Jennifer, visit https://www.ctecaz.org/