Delaware’s Hospitality, Events, & Tourism (HET) Microcredential is redefining what high-quality professional learning looks like for Career & Technical Education educators. Through a strategic partnership between the Delaware Department of Education and the Delaware Restaurant Foundation, the program provides industry-aligned credentials designed to deepen technical expertise while strengthening equity-driven, high-impact rigorous instruction. At its core, the microcredential

The 2026 Lerner College Challenge at the Delaware Educators Rising State Leadership Conference, hosted in partnership with the University of Delaware Lerner College of Business and Economics and supported by the Delaware Restaurant Foundation and Delaware Teacher Academy Foundation, showcased the strength, skill, and professionalism of Delaware’s middle and high school culinary programs. Designed as an authentic, postsecondary-connected competitive experience, the challenge r

During the 2026 Delaware Educators Rising State Leadership Conference, leadership was not only demonstrated in planning and on stage, it was proven in a moment that mattered most. When a medical emergency occurred on site, Carter Porter  and Joshua Soto , students engaged in Delaware’s Health Sciences pathways and active members of HOSA (Career & Technical Student Organization), immediately stepped into action. Drawing on their clinical training, emergency response preparati

Delaware continues to lead the nation in redefining what authentic student leadership looks like. At the 2026 Delaware Educators Rising State Leadership Conference Work-Based Learning (WBL) experience, 18 Career & Technical Education students didn’t just participate, they designed, managed, and executed one of the only 100% Student-Run Career & Technical Student Organization (CTSO) Conferences in the country . This is not simulation. This is not shadowing. This is real leader