Who gets to shape what happens next in CTE? Not the boards. Not the districts. Not the state office. Not Rick Hess writing op-eds. It's you. In week two. Deciding — usually without knowing it — which kids belong in your program and which kids shouldn't have gotten scheduled.

News desk: Lauderdale County, Mississippi opens a brand new CTE Center on the first day of school — and how to protect the win before the vultures show up. And Rick Hess in Ed Week asking whether CTE is stuck in the past — with a critique that hurts because parts of it are true.

The lesson: Who Belongs Here? Two moves for the first two weeks. Catch yourself sorting. Widen the picture — one kid, one small structural move.

The rant: the roster problem. Auto body is not gym. C-IEPs, career pathways, and the conversations that should have happened in April.