Navigation Home What's New Course Information Courses Evaluation Standards ME Specifications OK Career Clusters ODCTE Skills Standards Brainbench Testing Student Opportunities Instructors Teacher Certification Dates to Remember Forms Resources State Regions Training Opportunities DECA General Information Fall Leadership State CDC International CDC Chapter Awards Program DECA Association Informational Flyer Membership Guide Officer Handbook Oklahoma DECA State Action Team State Officer Information 10-Day Rule About Us CareerTech Directory Contact Us ME Directory Vision, Mission & Goals	What's New! Dates to Remember 8/4/09 - 8/6/09 Summer Conference 9/10/09 New Teacher Academy Follow-up 10/19/09 DECA FLC 1/14/10 New Teacher Academy Follow-up 2/23/10 - 2/24/10 DECA State CDC Sports Career Night at OU Oklahoma University is hosting DECA Sports Career Night on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 when the Sooner men's basketball team will be taking on Louisiana-Monroe at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman. The cost per person is $25, and includes the following: Q & A session with sports business professionals from the OU Athletics Department Ticket to the OU vs. La.-Monroe basketball game Pregame dinner OU basketball t-shirt The deadline to register for this activity is November 13 and there are a limited number of seats available. Click here to get more information on how to order your tickets. New Teacher Academy The follow-up sessions for the New Teacher Academy will be held on Thursday, September 10, 2009 and January 14, 2010 at the Oklahoma Department of Career Tech in Stillwater. All new career tech teachers are required to attend all five days of training. Details about the academy can be found on the Training Opportunities page of this website. For more information, please email Karen Skidmore or Janette Sagersa or call 405-743-5119. Summer Conference The 42nd Annual Oklahoma Career and Technology Education Summer Conference was held on August 4- 6, 2009, at the Cox Convention Center, in Oklahoma City. It proved to be a very successful conference and consensus was that our teachers walked away from the conference with creative and vital ways they can immediately implement in a classroom setting. Be sure to visit the CareerTech Summer Conference website for more information on this year's conference. The address is www.okcareertech.org/confer/summer. Download Summer Conference Agendas: Business, Marketing & IT Division Conference Agenda (full version) Business, Marketing & IT Breakout Session Schedule for 8/6/09 Also, visit iCAT - http://icat.okcareertech.org - and navigate to the BITE/Marketing Ed location to find files in the August Conference folder that were shared by conference presenters. H&R Block Dollars & Sense H&R Block is providing Personal Finance curriculum that is interactive, computer-based learning that will teach students the essentials of personal finance, like how to balance a checkbook, avoid credit card debt, open a savings account and even manage their taxes. They will also work throughout the program to help parents talk to their teens about money and sound financial habits. Click here for more information about the Dollars & Sense program, or visit their website at www.hrblockdollarsandsense.com. Membership Campaign DECA's Membership Campaign is an exciting way for all DECA Chapters to increase their visibility of the organization and the excellent work that it does. This year the National DECA theme is "LIVE.LEARN.LEAD," while the Oklahoma DECA theme is "EXPLORE.DREAM.DISCOVER." Both themes are meant to encourage students to get involved in their community through leadership development, vocational understanding, civic consciousness and social intelligence. By doing this, the chapter can create goodwill with community leaders, school staff and administrators and, in the process, recruit new members. Achieving the top level of the Membership Campaign means that the chapter has made an impression on the community and it means special recognition for the chpater at the International Career Development Conference where representatives of the chapter are invited to appear on stage. In order to achieve the Diamond Level, all Membership Campaign activities must be promotional in nature and therefore, must include or be visible to people who are not current DECA members. It is important that DECA membership get involved by concentrating their efforts on the local or the global community. Everyone can "LIVE.LEARN.LEAD" by taking advantage of the opportnitites as we "EXPLORE.DREAM.DISCOVER." For Membership Campaign Activities go to www.deca.org/campaignactivities.html. You can choose to do some of these activities or think of your own. Following the standard activities list, you will find a few very creative ways that DECA chapters have participated in the campaign throughout the years. *All links to external sites open in a new browser window.

What's New!

8/4/09 - 8/6/09
Summer Conference

9/10/09
New Teacher Academy Follow-up

10/19/09
DECA FLC

1/14/10
New Teacher Academy Follow-up

2/23/10 - 2/24/10
DECA State CDC

Sports Career Night at OU

Oklahoma University is hosting DECA Sports Career Night on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 when the Sooner men's basketball team will be taking on Louisiana-Monroe at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman. The cost per person is $25, and includes the following:

Q & A session with sports business professionals from the OU Athletics Department
Ticket to the OU vs. La.-Monroe basketball game
Pregame dinner
OU basketball t-shirt

The deadline to register for this activity is November 13 and there are a limited number of seats available. Click here to get more information on how to order your tickets.

New Teacher Academy

The follow-up sessions for the New Teacher Academy will be held on Thursday, September 10, 2009 and January 14, 2010 at the Oklahoma Department of Career Tech in Stillwater. All new career tech teachers are required to attend all five days of training.

Details about the academy can be found on the Training Opportunities page of this website. For more information, please email Karen Skidmore or Janette Sagersa or call 405-743-5119.

Summer Conference

The 42nd Annual Oklahoma Career and Technology Education Summer Conference was held on August 4- 6, 2009, at the Cox Convention Center, in Oklahoma City. It proved to be a very successful conference and consensus was that our teachers walked away from the conference with creative and vital ways they can immediately implement in a classroom setting.

Be sure to visit the CareerTech Summer Conference website for more information on this year's conference. The address is www.okcareertech.org/confer/summer.

Download Summer Conference Agendas:

Also, visit iCAT - http://icat.okcareertech.org - and navigate to the BITE/Marketing Ed location to find files in the August Conference folder that were shared by conference presenters.

H&R Block Dollars & Sense

H&R Block is providing Personal Finance curriculum that is interactive, computer-based learning that will teach students the essentials of personal finance, like how to balance a checkbook, avoid credit card debt, open a savings account and even manage their taxes.

They will also work throughout the program to help parents talk to their teens about money and sound financial habits. Click here for more information about the Dollars & Sense program, or visit their website at www.hrblockdollarsandsense.com.

Membership Campaign

DECA's Membership Campaign is an exciting way for all DECA Chapters to increase their visibility of the organization and the excellent work that it does. This year the National DECA theme is "LIVE.LEARN.LEAD," while the Oklahoma DECA theme is "EXPLORE.DREAM.DISCOVER."

Both themes are meant to encourage students to get involved in their community through leadership development, vocational understanding, civic consciousness and social intelligence. By doing this, the chapter can create goodwill with community leaders, school staff and administrators and, in the process, recruit new members.

Achieving the top level of the Membership Campaign means that the chapter has made an impression on the community and it means special recognition for the chpater at the International Career Development Conference where representatives of the chapter are invited to appear on stage.

In order to achieve the Diamond Level, all Membership Campaign activities must be promotional in nature and therefore, must include or be visible to people who are not current DECA members.

It is important that DECA membership get involved by concentrating their efforts on the local or the global community. Everyone can "LIVE.LEARN.LEAD" by taking advantage of the opportnitites as we "EXPLORE.DREAM.DISCOVER."

For Membership Campaign Activities go to www.deca.org/campaignactivities.html. You can choose to do some of these activities or think of your own. Following the standard activities list, you will find a few very creative ways that DECA chapters have participated in the campaign throughout the years.

*All links to external sites open in a new browser window.