CLEVELAND, OHIO, October 17, 2016 —TFS® announced that ACTE’s CareerTech VISION 2016 Conference will host TFS company founder and CEO Mark C. Perna for a preconference workshop and concurrent session. The conference, which will take place November 30–December 3, 2016, will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mr. Perna’s four-hour preconference workshop is titled “Game-Changing Strategies for Dynamic Enrollment, Retention and Performance Results” and will be delivered on Wednesday, November 30, from 1:00–5:00pm in room N 234-236. On Friday, December 2, from 9:45–10:45am, Mr. Perna will deliver his concurrent session titled “Capitalizing on CTE’s Competitive Advantage to Attract and Retain More of the Right Students” in room N 113. Both sessions are expected to draw significant attendance.
The one-hour concurrent session will address several innovative strategies to leverage the exclusive competitive advantage of CTE. The four-hour preconference workshop will include that material as well as the full range of Mr. Perna’s proprietary best practices, including the TFS Education with Purpose® philosophy, the Light at the End of the Tunnel strategy, key generational insights, the TFS Career Tree® classroom tool, and other topics of interest to 21st-century educators. Both sessions are designed to be beneficial to staff in all areas of education, including high school and college administrators, teachers, and critical support staff members.
Mr. Perna, a proud member of ACTE, has many years of experience helping schools, districts, businesses, and state organizations nationwide increase enrollment, retention, and performance with Generation Y and Z students. As an education thought leader, Mr. Perna has pioneered many national best practices for engaging and influencing the younger generation in today’s competitive educational marketplace.
Touted as the premier annual gathering of CTE professionals in America, CareerTech VISION 2016 is hosted by the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), the largest national education association dedicated to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for careers. The conference features 300+ concurrent CTE sessions, a comprehensive expo, the first “STEM is CTE Symposium,” awards banquet, and networking opportunities. At the expo, the TFS team will host Booth #409 to demonstrate the company’s innovative CTE products and services.
Interested parties may register for the 2016 ACTE CareerTech VISION Conference here.
About Mark C. Perna and TFS
TFS, whose mission is to share and support its clients’ desire to make a difference, is a full-service strategic consulting firm founded by national education expert Mark C. Perna. A noted voice on today’s younger generations, Mr. Perna has many years of experience addressing industry leaders on the topic of expanding their reach in an increasingly global marketplace and has devoted his career to education and workforce training. At TFS, he heads an energetic team of talented professionals who share his vision of making a bigger difference, working with educators and employers of all sizes nationwide to deliver significant gains in recruitment, retention, and performance rates.