MICE K12 is a nonprofit built by CTE instructors, for CTE instructors.
A teacher gets handed a cybersecurity elective, a room of laptops, and a set of state competencies they are expected to prove they met. The material exists somewhere. The connective tissue — the sequence, the alignment, the labs, the evidence that any of it worked — does not. Building that from scratch is a second job, and it is the reason good programs stall in their second year.
That connective tissue is what we make. We maintain the courses, the standards and competency alignment, and the certification pathways for CTE programs in IT, Media Design, and Business Administration — in all fifty states — so that the part nobody should have to rebuild is already built.
Who we are
Our staff are veteran CTE instructors and program consultants. They have run these programs, in real buildings, with real budgets and real scheduling constraints — which is why the advice tends to start with what you already have rather than with a catalog.
Why we are a nonprofit
MICE K12 is a 501(c)(3). It is the DBA of the Michigan Initiative for Cybersecurity Education — the registered name, from a time when the work was narrower than it is now.
The status is not decoration. A seat in the MICE LMS costs between $50 and $200 for the year. We are not trying to grow the number per student. We are trying to grow the number of students.
What we do
- The MICE LMS — 33 built courses, priced per seat.
- Curriculum development — the standards, competencies, and certification alignment, maintained for every state.
- Program consulting — help designing a pipeline that starts at whatever grade level you actually have.
- Teacher training — train-the-trainer sessions through the school year, no IT background assumed.
Once a year we all get in a room for MICE Con, which is the part everyone actually looks forward to.
Talk to us
If you are standing at the start of this — or halfway in and stuck — that is the conversation we like having most. Get in touch; it does not cost anything.