For more on the new ACE Network: click Backgrounder.

To learn more about ways to get involved this year:  ACE Activities at a Glance

Stay up to date with latest news and events:  ACE Network News Online

For an easy to print version, visit Newsletters.

Hot off the press, Preliminary Report: Career Coaching Across the Curriculum

Summit 2009 - November 5 & 6, 2009 - Sold Out! 

Connect with key people, share information and effective practices, and optimize resources. ACE Network conferences, forums and learning events will ensure that you are kept up to date with the latest thinking and trends in the career education and development field. 

Summit 2009 is scheduled for November 5th and 6th in Red Deer.  Activities will commence in the late afternoon of Day 1 and conclude by mid-afternoon on Day 2.  All Summit events will be organized to dove tail with the ELAA Counsellors Update to be held in Red Deer just prior to the Alberta Career Education Summit.  Red Deer Country Club will serve as the main conference facility.

For more information, please contact Event Coordinator Pat Smith at (403) 358.3051 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .   Names are being taken for a wait list.

To download a copy of the Summit Early Bird Backgrounder, Schedule at a Glance and Registration Form, please click Summit 2009.   Summit 2008 earned rave reviews - to learn what others had to say about last year's event, please click Reviews.  Hope to see you in the heart of our great province next month, Red Deer Country Club Conference Centre, Red Deer, Alberta!

Founding Board of Directors Elected  

At the first Annual General Meeting of Alberta Career Education Network Foundation, the following individuals were elected to the Board of Directors:

• Dr. Kris Magnusson, Associate VP Academic, University of Lethbridge
• Mr. Dale Gullekson, Instruction Services, Elk Island Public Schools
• Mr. Mike Doyle, President, Canadian Association of Geophysical Contractors
• Mr. Craig Warnock, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, City of Edmonton
• Dr. J. Paul Stewart, Associate Superintendent, Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools
• Dr. Sam Shaw, President and CEO, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

The board met early in 2009 to craft a strategy to improve career education for all young people in Alberta.  Further governance and fund development work is in full swing.  Stay tuned to the site - biographies of the board members and board notes will soon be posted.

First Chapter Piloted in North-Eastern Alberta

The Buffalo Trail Public Schools Guidance and Counselling PLC was approved at the last meeting of the Alberta-wide Advisory Council to take the lead in the development of a pilot project to form the first ACE Regional Chapter in Alberta. The organizational meeting was held April 22, 2009 at Lakeland College in Vermilion.  The meeting was attended by about 20 participants from secondary, post-secondary and government organizations. 

At the conclusion of the event, the group agreed that it would be beneficial to participate in regional chapter undertakings.  The benefits listed included:  'local' networking; policy influence and practice improvements; sharing information and resources; learning and implementing effective practices; sharing speakers and joint venture workshops; maximizing opportunities for students, educators and local business to network and impact learning; breaking barriers between college, schools, divisions and business; working together with a common results oriented focus.