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 School Based Enterprise Certification For those who plan to certify or re-certify your school store this year, go to http://www.schoolbasedenterprises.org, download the 2009-10 guidelines and start preparing your documentaion. Participating in the certification program is a great way for SBEs to earn recognition for outstanding achievement and to validate with your administration that your school store is an integral part of your Marketing Education curriculum. Deadline: January 15, 2010. For more information, click here. 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. 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

School Based Enterprise Certification

For those who plan to certify or re-certify your school store this year, go to http://www.schoolbasedenterprises.org, download the 2009-10 guidelines and start preparing your documentaion. Participating in the certification program is a great way for SBEs to earn recognition for outstanding achievement and to validate with your administration that your school store is an integral part of your Marketing Education curriculum. Deadline: January 15, 2010.

For more information, click here.

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.

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.