{"id":1516,"date":"2026-02-13T03:40:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:46:09","slug":"the-county-poor-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"The Home of Country Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I always enjoy speaking at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville in December. The Christmas decorations and ambiance are great. And there is even a Bass Pro Shop in the adjacent mall. I made two presentations there in early December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first was as the keynote speaker for the Association for Career and Technical Education Research. The presentation was \u201c<em>Over 100 Years of Making a Difference: Career and Technical Education<\/em>.\u201d I was the president of this organization back in 1982, so it was nice they still want me around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second presentation was titled \u201c<em>Leadership: Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs.\u201d <\/em>This was for a session during the Association for Career and Technical Education annual convention. I shared my experiences as president of four national educational organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ACTer.-cropped-1024x523.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ACTer.-cropped-1024x523.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ACTer.-cropped-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ACTer.-cropped-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ACTer.-cropped-1536x785.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ACTer.-cropped.jpg 1951w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always enjoy speaking at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville in December. The Christmas decorations and ambiance are great. And there is even a Bass Pro Shop in the adjacent mall. I made two presentations there in early December. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=1516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}