Featuring Key Note Speaker Brent Haken - State Director, Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education

Brent Haken became the ninth state director of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education in January 2023. He recently served as superintendent of Morrison Public Schools.

Haken has been on the front line of elementary and secondary education as an agriculture education instructor, elementary assistant principal, special education director, high school principal and testing coordinator.

Haken received the 2022 Superintendents Chairman’s Award from the Oklahoma Youth Expo and was the Oklahoma Association of Superintendents District 4 Superintendent of the Year for 2022. He is a member of the Oklahoma State Professional Education Council and the Cooperative Council for Secondary Administrators.

Haken earned a master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of Central Oklahoma and a bachelor’s degree in agricultural education from Oklahoma State University.

We’ve asked Director Haken to bring us his vision for the future of Career Tech education and the role it can play in Oklahoma’s overall workforce development strategy. Enrollments within Oklahoma’s CareerTech system totaled 446,940 in fiscal 2022