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MBEA TODAY The official publication of the
Michigan Business Education Association
March, 2016 Volume 73, Issue 9
A Note from the President By Colleen Webb, MBEA President
ISHPEMING LOCATION
Wednesday, June 15 Microsoft Imagine Academy Training—1 Day
Cyber Security—1 Day
Thursday, June 16 Cisco Workshop
FLINT LOCATION
Monday/Tuesday June 20/21 Finance Standards Workshop—2 Days
Monday, June 20 Microsoft Applications—OneNote, SWAY and Office Mix—1 Day
Tuesday, June 21 Social Media in Business Education—1 Day
Tuesday, June 21 Cisco Workshop, 1—Day
Wednesday, June 22 Microsoft Imagine Academy Training—1 Day
Wednesday, June 22 Cyber Security—1 Day
Thursday, June 23 Curriculum Infusion—The Path to Certification 1—Day
Thursday/Friday June 23/24 Computer Science Curriculum, 2—Day (must attend both days 30 seats only)
As President of the Michigan Business Education Association, it is my pleasure to cordially invite you to the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, November 16-18 for the 78th Annual MBEA Convention, and the 80th Anniversary of our founding as a professional organization. This event also marks the NCBEA Joint Convention…an event that happens every eight years. In January, the 2016 MBEA Executive Board declared this year’s convention theme as “Business + Education: The Story Starts Here.” Come to Grand Rapids and be an integral part of the 2016 Business Education story. Plans are underway to help you to start a new business education story in your school. We currently have a contest going with our MI students to create a logo that will be used in all of our convention publications. Your executive board is now in the process of calling for presentations, exhibitors, and sponsors. Visit the convention tab on website, http://MBEA-Online.org, or details as they develop. Registration materials will be available on September 1. See the hardcopy of MBEA Today which will be in your mailbox in early September for all of the conference details.
The MBEA Summer Camp ‘story’ continues with training in two locations again this year:
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Final details will be posted to our website as soon as they are finalized. In keeping with our convention theme I had the opportunity to witness a New Story in Business Education and Michigan Business Professionals of America on Saturday, February 27, when I attended the very first Business Professionals of America, Middle Level, Michigan Division, and State Competition at Davenport University in Grand Rapids. Sixty students from Kraft Meadows and Duncan Lake Middle School, Caledonia, Evart Middle School, Evart, Davis Middle School in Hillsdale, Grand Blanc Middle School East, O. J. DeJonge Middle School in Ludington, Shumate Middle School in Gibraltar, St Mary's Middle School in Lake Leelanau, and Zemmer and /Roland-Warner Middle Schools in Lapeer. The Middle Level offers 14 competitive areas…Financial Literacy, Basic Math Concepts, Keyboarding Production, Spreadsheet Applications, Business Communications Skills Concepts, Computer Literacy Concepts, Website Design Team, Introduction to Video Production Team, Graphic Design Promotion, Prepared Speech, Extemporaneous Speech, Entrepreneurship Exploration and Business Fundamentals Concepts. Davenport University created this organization, and is chartered by the Business Professionals of America National Association. This “New Story” started with Melanie Tomaski, O. J. DeJonge Middle School, Ludington, who is credited with founding the Middle School Level of BPA. Ron Draayer, Davenport University, serves as State Advisor for this group. Best of luck to all of the middle level students as they advance to national competition in Boston, May 5-9 and continue on their path to be the business leaders of tomorrow. Please feel free to contact me at any time with any issues or concerns. My contact information is listed below. Mark your calendar for our upcoming events…and I hope to see you there. Colleen [email protected] 810 247 0133
NBEA Annual Convention March 22-26, 2016 The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, Nevada
MBEA Summer Academy June 15-16, 2016
Westwood High School Ishpeming, Michigan
MBEA Summer Academy June 20-23, 2016
Baker College Flint, Michigan
MBEA Fall Convention November 16-18, 2016
Amway Grand Plaza Hotel Grand Rapids, Michigan
Your MBEA Executive Board is here to serve YOU!
President ...................................................Colleen Webb Secretary ..................................................... Jerrod Black VP for Business and Finance .................. Joyce Newtown VP for Membership ............................ Ronalyn Arseneau Member at Large ........................................ Robert Yoder Member at Large .................................. Diane Harrington Post-Secondary Representative...................... Tera Gregg NCBEA Membership Director ............... Patricia Pearson State Department .......................................... Tom Knight
Mark Your Calendar!
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Bridge the Gap Between Your Program and Your Community By Diane Harrington – MBEA Board Member At-Large
As business educators we constantly have to promote our programs, recruit students, and justify why our elective courses need to continue. Do you need another way to promote your program besides becoming an IT Imagine Academy which allows you to offer Microsoft Office Specialist exams to your students for FREE along with paying nothing for all the curriculum resources, offering an extra-curricular organization like Business Professionals of America and the amazing PR that goes with it to see local students win at the regional, state, and national levels? Each year our career center will do promotional presentations to all area schools and our local 8th and 10th grade students to get them interested in our courses. But how can you make your whole community aware of the benefits of your students and programs? If you need help reaching another demographic in your community, our business department has an easy program and PR opportunity
for you. The past two years, we have been offering computer classes to our local senior citizens. In partnership with our community action agency that advertises these classes, students work with senior citizens on a multitude of technology devices that they may need help with. These can range from a cell phone or kindle to a laptop or iPad. The classes are offered once a month at our high school for approximately 2 hours. Students can earn volunteer hours, extra credit and torch points (through the BPA torch system) for this activity. We try to pair students with seniors at a one to one ratio for best results. The response from the senior citizen community has been overwhelmingly positive. Articles about this program have been published in our local newspaper as well as our district newsletter that reaches every household in the district. Try out a program like this at your school. You have nothing to lose except the positive comments and support from your local senior citizens. This is just one more way to positively promote your program to a most-valuable population in your community. If you have any questions about this program and how we operate it, please feel free to email me at [email protected].
“Start a ‘New Professional Story’ with Tips from Corinne Hoisington, Noted Author and Presenter” Meet the 2016 MBEA Keynote Speaker, Corinne Hoisington. Corinne is a full-time Professor of Information Systems Technology at Central Virginia Community College in Lynchburg, VA with over 25 years of teaching experience. She also travels over 200,000 miles a year keynoting to college & university professors and K12 venues in over 70 worldwide cities this year for such customers as the Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft’s Camp 21 International Events, Cengage Learning, the international South by Southwest event, and many other universities and K12 groups. Professor Hoisington is the recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Computer Programming. Corinne presently has authored over twenty textbooks with Cengage Learning/National Geographic such as the Android Studio Boot Camp, Dreamweaver Creative Cloud, Outlook 2016, Office 2016, Technology Now for SAM, and Visual Basic 2015 with App Development. See Corinne’s Publications at Barnes and Noble: http://productsearch.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.aspx?WRD=corinne+hoisington Mark your calendar NOW and plan to attend the 2016 MBEA Fall Convention, November 16-18, Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI. As convention details evolve, they will be posted on the MBEA website, http://www.mbea-online.org/.
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Investing in Our Students Future By Robert A. Yoder, Member at Large
As a business educator, I am constantly looking for new and exciting ways to engage my students by creating real world learning experiences that will stick with them throughout their lives. Most of the real life lessons that I love to teach, I had to learn on my own either by chance or through failure. Before I decided to get into education, I never had a problem making money, but I did have a problem saving and budgeting that money. During my first year of teaching I was assigned five different preps and one of those was personal finance. I loved the idea of teaching this subject, however I did not have any text books and I had never taken a class on personal finance. So how does a guy that handled money so poorly in the past teach high school students the basics of personal finance? Well, I decided to show them all the mistakes that I made throughout my life and teach them everything in four months that took me 10 plus years to learn on my own. And let’s be honest, these are strategies and principles I’m still learning today. One of the most rewarding experiences that I’ve come across to teach real work experiences is the SIFMA Foundation’s Stock Market Game™ (SMG). This Internet based, real-time and real world game lets students manage an on-line portfolio of $100,000. The best part of this simulation is that the students see it as a game, but are really learning not only what the stock market is, but also financial concepts, strategies, and economic principles that they will use for the rest of their lives. The game has engaged every student from those that were accepted to Stanford University, to the most challenging and unmotivated student just trying to graduate. Last year, I had three students compete in the Bloomfield Hills Financial League of the Stock
Market Game and out of around 900 participants, one of my students finished in first place and was awarded a $5,000 scholarship in the form of a 529 plan. It was a wonderful experience for not only that student, but myself and his family as well. The Stock Market Game takes an abstract idea and helps make it concrete through simulation of real time investing. Students are given 10 weeks to manage their portfolio, hopefully make money, and get to see how other students approach the game, not only in their own school, but also throughout the region they are competing. They learn skills such as decision-making, communication, business vocabulary, research, critical thinking, and different investment strategies from dollar cost averaging to diversification. The experience is amazing and one of those lessons that I can’t wait to share over and over again. I started this game in one personal finance class and now it’s in almost every business class I teach. It’s also helped me grow my personal finance class sections from one to six per year. For more information on The SIFMA Foundation’s Stock Market Game™ that I use in my classroom, visit www.stockmarketgame.org and check out the information and resources that are provided. Most schools have the opportunity to take part in this remarkable experience for free through grants. The Stock Market Game website has many resources for kids from fourth grade through college and lesson plans that are connected and aligned to Common Core Standards. The resources and support for new teachers and experienced teachers are very useful, so I urge you to take advantage of this resource for your students and help them “Invest in their future”.
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Project Based Learning in the Business Ed Classroom! By Jerrod Black, MBEA Secretary
I have always been fascinated with the use of projects in the classroom. It’s a great tool for differentiation, teaching difficult topics and concepts and “spicing up” a rather dull or boring topic that students do not find particularly interesting. I was fortunate enough to have had a student teaching experience that gave great tools and resources with Mindy Wischmeyer at Mt. Pleasant Area Technical Center. As a matter of fact, I loved her model so much, I tried to duplicate what she was doing in the classroom. Her students loved it so much, why couldn’t it work somewhere else!
The best part about PBL is the wide variety and array of ways you can use it and implement it into your classroom. In the first semester, my student’s own their own business as a contracted sales firm for the yearbook and Quiz Bowl team. They are responsible for acquiring businesses to participate with a discount for the Quiz Bowl discount card. Each year, they acquire the businesses, design and print the card all for a profit. Their service learning project is to acquire business ads for the yearbook from local businesses around town. In order to keep the cost of the yearbook down, business and community support is essential! What better way to learn social responsibility, sales, soft skills, software, finance, profit/loss and stock options than this?!
The second semester of my business class is an absolute favorite. Students own a build a production company from the ground up. They create a company name, logo, mission, vision and purpose. They create an event for the student body. We are currently working on a new event for career exploration. With PBL, the possibilities are endless! We have the classes that allow for creativity, imagination, real world connections and the opportunity to connect students with future employers. I encourage you to engage in PBL, involve your local community businesses and create lasting partnerships for years to come. Many of you are doing this and don’t even realize it. My students are learning conceptual business ideas by doing them, creating them and finding solutions to the problems our businesses and economies face every day.
Whatever your project may be, make it a memorable one. One that the students can get engaged in and feel ownership over. It’s hard as the instructional expert to let go of the reigns from time to time. I have done so and it has been a decision I won’t regret. My students leave my class with the SKILLS and EXPERIENCE to be one step ahead in the ever changing and advancing world of business. Enjoy the rest of the year and have a well-rested summer. I hope to see you all at this year’s Summer Academy.
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MBEA Awards Program—Nominate Your Colleagues By Patricia Pearson, Michigan Membership Director to NCBEA The MBEA Awards Program is available to any current MBEA members. We encourage to nominate colleagues who are deserving of any of the following awards. Please make sure you read the eligibility qualifications for each award before nominating the individual. Send the completed award materials to: [email protected] Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
2016 U.P. Summer Academy Ronalyn Arseneau, MBEA Vice President for Membership Our MBEA members in the U.P. will be happy to learn that MBEA will be hosting a U.P. version of our Summer Academy, with three different workshops to be held on June 15-16 at Westwood High School in Ishpeming. On Day 1 we will offer a cyber-security workshop presented by the Cyber Innovation Center, which has a robust set of free resources available to teachers with a focus on exposing students to potential computer science job opportunities, especially those related to cyber security. Also on Day 1, for those new to the Microsoft IT Academy (now called Microsoft Imagine Academy), there will be a repeat of the beginning and advanced Microsoft Imagine Academy training. Day 2 (Thursday, June 16) will offer a Cisco workshop, where teachers will have the opportunity to develop their own Internet of Everything (IOE) course and/or Linux Essentials course through the Cisco Networking Academy. Instruction and resources will be provided, with appropriate hands on activities and labs that can be incorporated into the curriculum including: IOE Hackathon, Raspberry Pi Robots and Packet Tracer networking labs. In addition, teachers will be exposed to other free resources available to them, including Be Your Own Boss, Technopreneurship, and Intro to Cyber Security. We are excited to be able to bring these educational opportunities to those of you who live in or would like to make a summer visit to the Upper Peninsula! Plan now to attend.
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The Michigan Business Education Association (MBEA) gives four awards to deserving members:
♦ Recognition Award ♦ Distinguished Service Award ♦ Master Teacher of Business Education Award in honor of Wells F.
Cook ♦ Emerging Professional Business Educator Award
*The RECOGNITION AWARD is presented to an individual who has excelled in service to business education and MBEA in the state of Michigan. NOMINATION GUIDELINES 1. Nominators and Nominees must be dues-‐paid members of MBEA in the preceding and current year 2. The Nominee must demonstrate excellence in business education. 3. Professionalism which may include the following: participation in other related organizations,
speaking engagements at meeting or conventions, other activities as they relate to business education, educational achievements, promotions, recognitions, work experience, and/or published professional articles.
Submit the following:
• Letter of recommendation from the nominator • Current resume of nominee • A letter of recommendation from a colleague, an administrator, and/or a former student
*The DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD is presented to a member who has given distinguished service to the Michigan Business Education Association. NOMINATION GUIDELINES 1. Nomination must be made by a current or former MBEA Executive Board member 2. Nominee must: be a current or past executive board member that has served at least 1 term, have
presented at conventions and/or workshops, have been active in MBEA activity and convention planning, have submitted articles for publication in MBEA Today and/or other publications promoting MBEA activities
Submit the following:
• Letter of recommendation from the nominator • Current resume • A letter of recommendation from a colleague, an administrator, and/or former student
The Master Teacher of Business Education Award and the Emerging Professional Business Educator Award were established to recognize those individuals who have exhibited excellence in teaching in the classroom and have demonstrated leadership qualities among their colleagues.
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Nominees for the following awards must be current post-secondary or secondary classroom teachers in Michigan and must be dues-paid members of MBEA. *The MASTER TEACHER OF BUSINESS EDUCATION AWARD in memory of Wells F. Cook is presented to a current member in good standing who demonstrates excellence in the secondary or post-‐secondary classroom. NOMINATION GUIDELINES 1. Nominators and Nominees must be dues-‐paid members of MBEA in the preceding and current year 2. Nominee must have taught at least seven years as full-time teachers, five of which must have been in
Michigan. 3. The selection of the recipient for this award will be based upon excellence in classroom teaching and
demonstrated leadership qualities, as well as service to Michigan Business Education Association. 4. Excellence in classroom teaching may be demonstrated or include the following: leadership activities
within the school, curriculum development, active involvement in professional organizations, published research, speaking engagements, certifications, and evidence to support excellence in the classroom which could be demonstrated by letters from faculty, administrators, parents and/or students. Submit the following:
• Letter of recommendation from the nominator • Current resume • A letter of recommendation from a colleague, an administrator, and/or former student
*The EMERGING PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS EDUCATOR AWARD is presented to a secondary MBEA classroom business teacher currently teaching in Michigan. This individual must have taught at least two years, but no more than six years as a full-‐time teacher. This award is intended to recognize excellence in the classroom. NOMINATION GUIDELINES
1. Nominators and Nominees must be dues-‐paid members of MBEA in the preceding and current year
2. Nominee must have taught at least two years, but no more than six years as a full-‐time teacher and is a currently teaching in Michigan.
3. Excellence in classroom teaching may be demonstrated or include the following: leadership
activities within the school, curriculum development, active involvement in professional organizations, speaking engagements, certifications, and evidence to support excellence in the classroom which could be demonstrated by letters from faculty, administrators, parents and/or students.
Submit the following:
• Letter of recommendation from the nominator • Current resume • A letter of recommendation from a colleague, an administrator, and/or former student
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General Award Nomination Procedures and Deadlines Reminder: Only MBEA members in good standing may submit nominations for these awards. Please use the nomination form below to submit your nominations.
1. Submission of the Nomination form and supporting materials (which is available on the MBEA website or in the current issue of MBEA Today) including the name and address of the nominee, the designation of the award, and the name and address of the nominator will be submitted in PDF form to [email protected] by September 23, 2016.
2. Please use this checklist as your guideline for submission:
• Nomination Form • Letter of recommendation from the nominator • Current resume of nominee • A letter of recommendation from a colleague, an administrator, and/or former student • Other supporting documentation as listed in the nomination guidelines
Award recipients will be submitted as nominees for the North Central Business Education Association (NCBEA) Teaching Awards. MBEA AWARDS NOMINATION FORM 2016 Full Name of Nominee: Present Position: School Address: Home Address: Daytime Phone: Home Phone: E-‐mail: ****************************************************************************** Mark the award for which the candidate is being nominated:
_____ Recognition Award _____ Distinguished Service Award (nomination must be made by MBEA Board member) _____ Master Teacher of Business Education Award in memory of Wells. F. Cook _____ Emerging Professional Business Educator Award
****************************************************************************** Name of Nominator: Position: Address: Daytime Phone: Home Phone: Email address
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Michigan Business Education Association Colleen Webb, President 6164 Urban Drive East China, MI 48054
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MBEA TODAY The official publication of the
Michigan Business Education Association