CBEA Virtual Conference 2021

Online instruction is remote, but it doesn’t have to be distant. Educators can cultivate and build healthy relationships and a strong sense of community teaching in a synchronous online classroom. The medium may be different, but the important parts—you and the students—are still there. Join Paradigm's Director of Professional Learning, Michelle Estes, to gain essential principles and practices for teaching online. With creative thinking, curiosity, and courage, you can discover your excitement for teaching online and make a positive impact on students’ learning and success.

Come take a stroll through the new mentoring context. With the tools, resources and events provided by CTE TEACH you can build a culture for teaching Career Technical Education according to industry and education standards. Learn how to utilize CTE TEACH as your one-stop-shop for growing capacity in CTE mentors, network with other LEAs and school districts across the state, and substantiate CTE for the benefit of your students. Attend this session to build a roadmap for recruiting and retaining high quality CTE Teachers in your district, and help your CTE Programs be part of the biggest show on your campuses.

Business education was originally more practical, but over time, it has become more theoretical and an outlet to disseminate the latest methods and findings of research, thereby losing relevance to practitioners who are more interested in tangible outcomes rather than research papers that split hairs or have fancy statistical models. In fact, most schools now have now created a role titled "Professors of Practice", where industry practitioners come in to provide first-hand knowledge and experience as a way of giving students the hands-on, experiential knowledge missing from business classes. It is time for business education to evolve once more, this time, reverting to its foundational origins. Based upon the foundations of "open-systems theory" and “institutional theory”, this presentation shows how a business school in the Southwest United States has intentionally revised its processes, goals, and curriculum to educate future leaders by equipping them with a new set of skills through an iterative process that intentionally includes practitioner feedback at various stages of the education cycle. Session attendees will walk out of this session with a road map of how to connect curriculum and practice by building programs around the needs of industry.

Keeping technically-oriented business courses (such as digital marketing, personal finance and investments) is extremely challenging during“normal times.” Combining this with the requirements in teaching in classroom, online and hybrid environments during COVID created a virtually insurmountable task for many educators. A pilot of a contemporary, dynamically updated Introduction to Digital Marketing course was piloted with 140 students in California, Wisconsin and Illinois. This pilot was intentionally conducted during the significant teaching challenges posed by COVID. The comprehensive course was delivered in classroom, online and hybrid environments. The findings from this pilot will be shared by university faculty, EdTech founder, serial entrepreneur and Amazon Best Seller Author, Dave Gee. Attendees will learn strategies to keep their curriculum transformative, engaging and pragmatic for today's business environment.