President's Message

From: Nathan Balasubramanian

At CTEA, we recognize the importance of promoting best practices among teachers, furthering students' career development plans, and our role acting as catalysts of change. We serve many constituents - including, teachers of traditional industrial arts, technology education, pre-engineering, applied technology, information technology, digital media, science and mathematics; TECA students; administrators and vendors. As we plan on reaching a wider audience, we face some challenges.

First, we have heard numerous ideas/recommendations about how we might serve you better. This is our opportunity to listen and act on them. Second, with a renewed emphasis on core subjects in schools, funding for technology education is being cut back. This is our opportunity to disseminate studies which show that technology education actually helps increase student achievement school-wide. Finally, time, as always, is a constraint. This is our opportunity to communicate effectively using various tools in our interactive website.

Again, I am honored to be your President this year and thank you for giving me an opportunity to serve you. As you join me in our quest to further CTEA's mission - to rekindle every individual's desire to innovate, to learn, and to share - please do not hesitate to contact me with your questions and comments.

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