Professional Development Workshops
ABEA has special Professional Development Workshops planned for the 2011 – 2012 school year. This will be the place to find out which workshop you would like to attend.
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WBEA 2012 Conference
Fairmont Hotel
Newport Beach, California
February 16 – 21, 2012
Click on the following link for more information about the WBEA 2012 Conference in Newport Beach, California:
WBEA-CBEA 2012 Joint Conference
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WBEA honors outstanding educators and businesses every year at their annual conference. The categories for awards are
Outstanding Business Educator (elementary/middle school/junior high)
Outstanding Business Educator (secondary)
Outstanding Business Educator (post secondary)
Outstanding Business Educator (college/university)
Outstanding Career and Technical Advisor
Distinguished Service Awards (teacher, business person, legislator, or company)
STP Newsletter Recognition Award
The forms are posted online on the wbea website:
http://www.wbea.info/awards.html
The deadline for these awards is fast approaching: December 1.
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Eileen Wascisin, WBEA Professional Development Director, would like to announce that the Western Region is interested in furthering scholarship and professional development opportunities for WBEA and ABEA members. The WBEA Professional Development Institute (PDI) workshop will be offered at the WBEA 2012 Conference in Newport Beach, CA, February 16 – 21, 2012. WBEA will pay for 1/2 of the registration for up to 2 members from ABEA upon completion of the workshop. ABEA will pay the other half of the registration.
For more information and applications for the information on this page, go to the “News in Business Education” page of this website. If you are already an ABEA member, just log in. If you would like to join ABEA for these wonderful opportunities, you will find a membership brochure on the “Join” page under the “Membership” page.

Ryan has built put together a set of business lesson plans on the FBLA site. At the FBLA FCCLA retreat in Tucson he talked about having a link on this site to his site. It is password required but there are over 50 lesson plans there. Give him a call.
I will definitely give Ryan a call about the FBLA lesson plans. Thank you for letting me know.