This isn’t your typical education podcast. CHAT-CTE is built for the trade teachers—the welders, the cosmetologists, the culinary kings and queens—who teach with their hands, hustle, and heart.
Each episode tackles the real-life challenges of CTE teaching: from writing a curriculum when you’ve got zero time, to using AI tools that actually help, to managing a shop full of teens with more energy than a MIG welder. You’ll hear honest stories, get practical tools, and leave with something you can use tomorrow.
Hosted by a CTE mentor who’s been in the fire and came out forging something better. This is PD that respects your craft, your time, and your why.
Because you're not just teaching a trade—you're changing lives.
S3 - E14 - I'm Done. What Do I Do Now? - (CTE) - Career And Technical Education Professional Development
Ninety days after Workforce Pell went live: eighteen approved programs, in five states, in the entire country. Thirty-one states have a webpage up. Four of them post an actual list. Meanwhile a district in New Hampshire said yes to fifty kids who asked for CTE and got a $730,000 bill — $280,000 of it just to drive them to somebody else's building.
Everybody said yes to CTE. Nobody built the plumbing.
The lesson: you've been building your own jigs for twenty years. The material just changed. Building a custom tool for your classroom used to cost thousands — now it's an afternoon. Plus the move that saves you most of the money, and the one rule you don't cross.
The rant: gentle parenting, what it actually says, and why "because I said so" is a complete sentence when a machine is running.
Toolbox: three overlapping lanes, so nobody ever says "I'm done."
29 Sept 2026
S3 - E13 - How Much Grading Is Too Much - (CTE) - Career And Technical Education Professional Development
Plano ISD's enrollment has dropped every school year since 2010-11. Their CTE programs have grown. They're opening a 150,000 square foot career center this month — designed so programs can be phased in and out as the trades change. Being the growing thing inside a shrinking district is a win. It's also a position worth having your radar up about.
The lesson: every semester I write each kid a letter. What they're doing well, what to push on, what I think they could be. I thought I was doing something nice for students. I was auditing myself — because you'll get through fifteen names fast and then hit one where you've got nothing. That blank spot is the most honest feedback you'll ever get about your own attention.
The rant: your emergency is not everybody's emergency.
Toolbox: four levels of grading. Find yourself.
22 Sept 2026
S3 - E12 - The Lesson Plan and the Learning Guide - (CTE) - Career And Technical Education Professional Development
Plain, topic-forward, unmistakable. Any CTE teacher who's ever wondered which document they're supposed to be writing sees that and clicks. It's also the most searchable title of the season — nobody else is making content on this and people look for it.
ALTERNATES
"Nobody Needs Bloom's Taxonomy at a Workbench" — funniest, most shareable, most likely to get sent to another teacher. Downside: reads as a joke title and might undersell how practical the episode is.
"Two Documents" — clean, curious, short. Vague on its own.
"I Don't Have to Ask" — the song title, student POV, and it's the emotional argument for the whole lesson. Best title if you want resonance over search.
"It's a Schedule Nobody Gave You a Copy Of" — the Toolbox insight, and it's the best single line in the episode.
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