Note: This resource is a work in progress. Help us complete the project by reporting any missing information to Dr. Lavyne Rada.

The purpose of this directory is to provide a list and contact information of all teachers and programs within the Construction, Manufacturing, and Transportation career clusters. This directory includes only teachers who hold a license in Construction, Manufacturing, or Transportation and those who the district assigned to an Construction, Manufacturing, or Transportation assignment during 2025-2026 STAR reporting. Active Construction, Manufacturing, and Transportation career cluster licenses include the following (see PELSB for additional legacy licenses within this content area):
– Cluster: Construction Careers-300100, Manufacturing Careers-300200, and Transportation Careers-300700.

We describe our methodology for how we conducted this research here. We present and summarize these data as described by districts during STAR reporting to PELSB. During analysis, we noticed several errors made by districts (e.g., submitting the wrong teacher’s name, discrepancies in age, ethnicity, years of experience for the same teacher working at two different districts). That said, these data still have high face validity. We estimate a less than a 1% margin of error.

Methodology

MN CTE staff created this directory through a secondary analysis of existing data, including PELSB Staff Automated Reporting (STAR) data and PELSB File Folder licensure data. We included teachers whom districts reported in their 2025–2026 STAR data as teaching a CTE assignment (i.e., “District Notes” of PELSB’s Licensure Assignment Table). We also included teachers reported in assignments that a CTE license allows them to teach but that PELSB does not classify as CTE (e.g., 200300 – Horticulture/Animal or Crop Production). Districts generally should not use these non-CTE assignments for CTE courses, but in prior years we found that excluding them omitted many appropriately licensed CTE teachers. We listed teachers in these assignments only after confirming, with PELSB File Folder data, that they held a CTE license or out-of-field permission appropriate to the course.

The directory reflects STAR data as of October 1, 2025, the snapshot date. Teachers who work in more than one district appear once for each district. Two districts did not report to PELSB: Rochester Public Schools (0535-01), for the second consecutive year, and Climax-Shelly (0592-01). We collected their data directly by working with district administrators.

Note: This directory does not list teachers or programs approved by MDE for CTE Revenue and Perkins funding (those data are here). It includes only teachers in CTE assignments who hold a license or permission that PELSB considers CTE. It does not include teachers with CTE-adjacent licenses (e.g., a science teacher in medical terminology, an art teacher in graphic design, a technology teacher in STEM).

We will conduct a similar analysis for 2026-2027 after PELSB publishes STAR data (estimated summer 2027).