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 is built around...

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 required students...

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 preparation, and CTSO...