Advisors & Students
H&R Block Dollars & Sense National Challenge On-line Competition
www.HRBlockDollarsAndSense.com
In this challenge students compete online for $50,000 in college scholarships and the chance to shadow an H&R Block executive. In addition, advisors of the top three teams will receive a $2,500 classroom grant. And last but not least, H&R Block will also help subsidize travel cost to the ICDC for finalist teams and advisors. The H&R Block National Challenge is based on Virtual Business – Personal Finance. If your school does not own Virtual Business – Personal Finance, a free competition version of the software will be available for download.
For more information or to register a team, visit www.KnowledgeMatters.com/HRB.
1) Registration is open October 13, 2009 through January 29, 2010
2) 1st Online Challenge runs from October 26, 2009 to November 20, 2009
3) 2nd Online Challenge runs from January 4, 2010 to January 29, 2010
Students
Students: Interested in going to college for free?
http://www.brokepiggy.com/resources-tools/how-to-go-to-college-for-free/
Advisors
2010 MBA Conclave Curriculum and Teaching Conference, June 20 - 23, 2010
School Based Enterprise
SBE Update 11.18.09
www.schoolbasedenterprises.org
Re-Certification Guidelines
Certification Guidelines
National DECA Updates
Dimensions Teaching Guide
The new, improved Dimensions Teaching Guide is now exclusively available on the web at http://www.deca.org/chapteradvisor.html. To read more about the upcoming Dimensions topics, see “An Integrated Approach” on page 2 of the September 2009 Advisor.
Advisor Pullout
The Advisor, sent four times a year, features a new pullout designed to provide substantive professional development topics that have a longer “shelf life.” The shell of the Advisor will contain important time sensitive DECA information. We will also send monthly e-mails to you. Please check your e-mail filter to ensure you receive updates from DECA Inc.
Facebook
Check out DECA’s official Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/decainc. Become a fan today! Thanks to PDC Productions, you can view a promotional video for ICDC 2010 in Louisville, KY. You don’t have to be a member to watch it. We know it will excite your students and motivate them so they can attend what’s known as the largest DECA event of the year!
Nutritional Guidelines
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Several of you have asked for clarification regarding SB5093 (proposed 2010 Nutrition Guidelines) and whether or not they will be recommended to school districts in 2010. I just received official clarification from Rhoda Donkin (Senator) and Donna Oberg (King County Board of Health), who state that at this point in time the WA State Legislature is not requiring that the nutrition standards in SB5093 be implemented. The other clarification that she wanted to ensure everyone was aware of; SB5093 is a goal and the task force provides a series of recommendations, one of which says that the legislature should require standards for competitive foods. So far, the legislature has backed away from REQUIRING these standards statewide. Both the bill and the report do have different dates because neither is binding. District Food and Nutrition Directors and Superintendants should be receiving this information in the near future.
Please visit the WAME website for more information on the nutritional guidelines.
2010 Nutritional Guidelines
Approved Food Items Available at COSTCO
