I'm moving forward on building my personal shop in our garage. It is tough to put time into building it when it is uncertain if we are going to live there in the future. But I have developed a design sense over the years of building with the possibility of removing(without a crowbar). I build with bolts in the attachment point to the structure so that things are easily removed and re-purposed. Even if we do stay at the house, I would be able to move parts of my shop; wood storage, table assemblies, etc., to a school shop with relative ease. And given the state of most school shops, if I am going to get up and running in a timely manner, this will be a crucial strategy.

Why can't CTE model start before the school system does. this would literally build a new foundation under the old failing system.
the basics of Career technical can be applied to play for the preschool curriculum. Academic standards can be mapped to children's interests in the home, and build a road map for entering the school setting.
career and tech model is based around te formation of coop business structure. Coop between teacher and student and also teacher and professional.
The role relationships are are a spectrum people can float between all three roles based on their own decisions and work, as well as peer review.
if CTE model is adopted by parents early the co-op model comes into play as a period of parent leave, where parents can work in cooperation with other parents and care providers, in conjunction with other work on a limited basis.
I was looking through the book, Making Toys that Teach, and thought of mixing the CTE/industrial arts standards and practice with early childhood dev, by building toys. Math standards are applicable too. This could function in a CTE wheel type course, where students have to get broad exposure to arts and home econ, etc. This is an example of a very standards dense curriculum.

This 8 week course is designed to be an after school program or an off-site CTE training and educational environment for Community Education programs: Green Tech program.

This is a brief summary of resources about the California Assembly Bill(2648) Multiple Pathways for vocational education paths in public schools. It is a resource for my own record as I work on an Industrial Arts teaching credential, and help develop ideas and a program that will leverage this policy while helping drive it's development through discussion. Presently I have not been able to find any internet discussion about the Bill other than this web forum hosted by WestEd, which is now closed.

initial ideas

Study for contractors license at the same time study for indust. arts cred.
lobby for merging the two qualifications into one test. Open new path ways from education to working in the market through aprenticeship economy.
Lobby for passive solar and ecological infrastructure projects and building codes.
create ope source business model to propagate ditributed npo administration.

single family homes as ROCP sites durring the day/working hours, set by controler of house.
builds a community that will support the owner of the house in later life.

Initial research for developing an Industrial Arts teacher prep program that is built into a salvage shop, design build model.

http://www.ctc.ca.gov/educator-prep/program-accred.html
http://www.ctc.ca.gov/educator-prep/new-program-submission.html
http://www.ctc.ca.gov/educator-prep/STDS-preconditions.html