September 2017 Business Education Update
Welcome back!
I am hopeful you had a refreshing break from school. There are so many great activities going on in our schools and across the state. New partnerships springing up between business and education. It is a very exciting time to be in education.
The Business Education Update will be your connection to what’s happening in Des Moines and across the state. Please keep me informed of information that would be good to share with other educators.
And as always, contact me if you have any questions!
Kelli
Financial Literacy – still an option for Business teachers
I’ve received a number of calls and emails regarding the new Social Studies standards & benchmarks (which include the 21st century skills – financial literacy). To be clear, nothing has changed. 21st Century skills can and should be covered by everyone in their curriculum. So financial literacy competencies could appear in business education, family consumer science, math or social studies.
What else that has not changed is that the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners crosswalks teacher licensure with SCED Codes (course codes). They are still identified as follows:
- SCED Code – 02157 Consumer Math 5-12 Business-General; 5-12 Mathematics
- SCED Code – 04201 Econ 5-12 Economics; 5-12 All Social Sciences; 5-12 Business-All
- SCED Code – 12101 Banking & Finance 5-12 Business-General; 5-12 Business-All
- SCED Code – 12103 Finance 5-12 Business-General; 5-12 Business-All
- SCED Code – 19262 Consumer Economics/Personal Finance 5-12 Business-General; 5-12 Family & Consumer Sciences-General; 5-12 Business-All
- SCED Code – 22210 Consumer Economics/Personal Finance 5-12 Business-General; 5-12 Business-Marketing/Management; 5-12 Family & Consumer Sciences-General; 5-12 Consumer/Homemaking Education; 5-12 Business-All
http://www.boee.iowa.gov/BEDSCodesSecondary.pdf
2017 Iowa Business Education Association Convention
Holiday Day Inn & Suites (4800 Merle Hay Road, Des Moines)
Conference Registration open - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfj4b1bXqYWy-BCh5bfKpnfIui8cdpcTUhDwTmqcZZpR3nt7Q/viewform
Certifications for Business
Industry certifications bring value to our CTE programs and the opportunity for our students to graduate with more than a diploma. There will be a pre-conference session (free) for educators to take one of four certification exams (Fundamental Business Concepts, Fundamental marketing Concepts, Concepts of Finance or Entrepreneurship/Management). This will enable you to become familiar with these certifications so you can decide if this would be a good opportunity for your students. For more information about ASK exams, go to www.askinstitute.org.
For a list of Iowa teachers who have successfully passed an ASK exam: http://www.ibeaonline.org/documents/ASKCertificationListthruOctober2016.pdf.
The testing session will run 12 noon – 2 pm on Sunday, October 22. Allow 100 minutes per exam. Pre-registration is required - https://goo.gl/forms/AwaA3jXDdUQCtnWm2
Statewide Iowa Intermediary Network -- Do you need help making those business connections?
Don't forget about the valuable resource available to all educators for making those important connections with business and industry -- Iowa Intermediary Network! Whether you are needing to make connections for a speaker for your class, setting up job shadows, arranging a tour, your regional Intermediary can help with this. For a list of regional Intermediaries, click here.
What’s going on with our CTSOs (career and technical student organizations—Business Professionals of America, Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and DECA?
For more information contact Deb Jones, Iowa BPA State Advisor, djones@iowalakes.edu
October 15-17, 2017 Fall Leadership Conference, Des Moines
February 15-17, 2018 State Leadership Conference, Des Moines
May 9-13, 2018 National Leadership Conference, Dallas, Texas
For more information contact Lou Voss, Iowa FBLA State Adviser iowafblastateadviser@gmail.com
October 1-2, 2017 State Fall Leadership Conference, Des Moines
November 10-11 National Fall Leadership Conference, St. Louis, MO
March 15-17, 2018 State Leadership Conference, Coralville
June 28 – July 1, 2018 National Leadership Conference, Baltimore, MD
For more information contact Carol VonTersch, Iowa DECA Administrative Council Chair, iowadeca16@gmail.com
October 8-9, 2017 Fall Leadership Conference, Des Moines
December 1-3, 2017 Central Region Leadership Conference, Omaha, NE
February 25-26, 2018 State CDC, Southeast Polk HS
April 21-24, 2018 International Career Development Conference, Atlanta, GA
MBA Research is Iowa's connection to research-based curriculum for Business and Marketing education. Iowa has been a member of this state consortium so you have access to these materials. To find out more, go to www.mbaresearch.org.
MBA Conclave - October 6-9
For additional information: www.MBAResearch.org/GoConclave
Come early and stay late! Working with both Oregon and Washington teacher associations, staff have assembled a killer program. The opening general session (Friday afternoon) features Shashi Jain, IoT Innovation Manager at Intel. But Friday is just the beginning. Other keynotes include:
• Mark C. Perna, CEO, Tools for Schools
Game-Changing Strategies for Significant Enrollment, Retention, & Performance Results
• Frank Tate, entrepreneur (5 Minute Walk Records, Super Franks Fun Adventure, MindQuilt, The Knowledge Coop)
Hide and Go Speak: Helping Those Around You Find Their True Voices
More! More than 100 individual learning sessions are focused specifically on the professional development needs of those who teach:
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance
• Management
• Marketing
Proof Critical to Building Strong Business Programs
Given the various Perkins requirements (different among states) and local interest in STEM and other initiatives, it’s more important than ever for local programs to document student learning gains – proof of learning. Our not-for-profit research partner has developed a new micro-credential series (digital badges) to encourage student testing performance. Coupled with third-party online pre- and post-testing offered by our partner MBA Research, NOCTI, and others, local schools can easily collect data to document student progress. Simply comparing pre-test scores (for exams taken this month) with end-of-the year exam scores can go a long way in documenting student achievement using hard quantitative data. And, if you take the time to connect students with the digital badges (no additional costs), both the individual student and the program have further documentation of student achievement.
Using third-party assessments for proof-of-learning data is easy, inexpensive, and takes very little additional time. The resulting data can support your program in many different ways, including:
• Improved testing scores with BPA, DECA, and FBLA events
• Adjustments to curricula based on objective data
• Positive positioning with local and state decision-makers
The EntreEd Forum – November 3-5, 2017
Embassy Suites Hotel in beautiful downtown Charleston, WV
The EntreEd Forum is totally focused on teachers who want to add entrepreneurship to any curriculum or enhance an existing entrepreneurship course. National experts will share best practices and lessons learned. Teachers will work together to develop customized projects with assistance from entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship educators. More doing, less sit-n-get. Fun and comradery. Less lecture, more workshop. Add in a dinner and a movie featuring a premier of the documentary She Started It and you have a conference packed with info, experiences and sharing that will help any teacher integrate the real world of entrepreneurship. Register now for the early-bird rate! For more details, visit www.entre-ed.org
Professional Development Opportunities for FY18
Iowa Association for Career and Technical Education (IACTE)
September 19, 2017
DMACC Ankeny – FFA Enrichment Center
https://www.acteonline.org/iowa/#.WagknFV95Mw
North Central Business Education Association/Ohio Business Education Association
September 28-29, 2017
Columbus, OH
http://www.ncbea.com/
MBA Conclave
October 6-9, 2017
Vancouver, WA
https://www.mbaresearch.org/index.php/professional-development/conclave
Iowa Business Education Association (IBEA) Convention
October 22-23, 2017
Holiday Inn and Suites, Merle Hay Road, Des Moines
http://www.ibeaonline.org/
EntreEd Forum
November 3-5, 3017
Charleston, WV
www.entre-ed.org
Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) VISION
December 6-9, 2017
Nashville, TN
https://www.careertechvision.com/
ACTE National Policy Seminar (NPS)
March 5-7, 2018
Washington DC
https://www.acteonline.org/nps/#.Wagle1V95Mw
National Business Education Association (NBEA) Convention
March 27-31, 2018
Baltimore, MD
https://www.nbea.org/
Iowa Work-Based Learning Coordinators (IWBL) Conference
April 9-10, 2018
Waukee Innovation and Learning Center
www.iowawbl.org
Kelli Diemer
Business and Marketing Education Consultant
Iowa Intermediary Network/Iowa Work-Based Learning
Bureau of Career and Technical Education
Division of Community Colleges & Workforce Preparation
515-281-3615 (office)
515-242-5988 (fax)
kelli.diemer@iowa.gov
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