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Abstract
This paper examines the professional development of high school teachers on how to integrate 21st Century Skills within their Career and Technical Education (CTE) classes at a skills center in eastern Washington. The entire project entailed the creation of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) that worked to understand 21st Century Skills and the need to explicitly teach them to CTE students. It also involved the development of rubrics for use by students and teachers in assessing 21st Century Skills. Lastly, the teachers in the PLC utilized the rubrics in their teaching. While aspects of the rubric development and implementation will enter the discussion, the focus of this paper will be the perceptions of the teacher leader of the PLC (the facilitator) and the process of preparing CTE teachers to effectively teach 21st Century Skills through a PLC.