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FCCLA…THE ULTIMATE LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE!
How do I get started?!
Jenn Callahan
Iowa FCCLA State Executive Director
WHY START A FCCLA CHAPTER?
You get to know your kids outside of the classroom and connect with them in a different way!
To provide extra leadership opportunities for kids Gives kids a place to belong! Gives them ownership!
To market your program! To make a difference! To help strengthen individuals, families, and
communities! To show your administration, school, and
community what FCS is all about!
HOW DO YOU START? Talk to administration about the idea
Visit the Iowa and National websites! Great facts sheets that you can take with to explain…especially if there has never been a chapter affiliated at your school.
Talk to kids about starting the organization GET THEM EXCITED!
Contact Jenn to be added to the adviser mailing list You will receive a new chapter packet with a CD!
(Video, posters, information, etc)
Hang up posters!
Promote first to your students in your classes! Have them share with friends!
Once you have members….the next step is to AFFILIATE!
AFFILIATION & MEMBERSHIP DUES
Affiliating online is the easiest! YOU Can do it! Enter in student names and their current grade!
$3 – State of Iowa membership dues $9 – National Headquarters membership dues Chapter & District dues vary
What happens when you have new students throughout the year? Keep updating and affiliate them! Due to Nationals by May 31. Most advisers get them
done in early fall before District meeting. Members MUST be affiliated to partake in activities like
STAR Events, being a district officer, and voting at districts!
If you are using FCCLA lesson plans, activities, ideas, etc. then you need to affiliate your members!
MISSION
To promote personal growth and leadership development through family and consumer sciences education. Focusing on the multiple roles of family member, wage earner, and community leader, members develop skills for life through: Character development Creative and critical thinking Interpersonal communication Practical knowledge Career preparation
--FCCLA website, www.fcclainc.org
8 PURPOSES
1. To provide opportunities for personal development and preparation for adult life.
2. To strengthen the function of the family as a basic unit of society.
3. To encourage democracy through cooperative action in the home and community.
4. To encourage individual and group involvement in helping achieve global cooperation and harmony.
5. To promote greater understanding between youth and adults.
6. To provide opportunities for making decisions and for assuming responsibilities.
7. To prepare for the multiple roles of men and women in today’s society.
8. To promote family and consumer sciences and related occupations.
--FCCLA website, www.fcclainc.org
GET YOUR KIDS EXCITED!
If you teach 7-12, start with junior high! Explain to them what it’s all about! Let them help out with small and simple
tasks (fundraisers & organizing service learning events)
Include 8th grade students after spring break to start thinking about joining in high school Introduce STAR Events, invite them to meetings,
encourage them to run for leadership roles, etc. Show videos about FCCLA, invite a chapter
from another school to speak, invite a State Officer to speak, Skype with a chapter about conference experiences, STAR Events, etc.
INTRODUCING THE IDEA INYOUR CLASSES
Introduce FCCLA at the beginning of the school year!
Integrate & incorporate FCCLA in all classes! First week of school do activities:
Video Scavenger Hunt Snack party! Movie party!
Again…get your kids excited! Once they are excited, they truly become
leaders…and THEY lead the organization! The adviser is important but…needed to guide them along the way!
WHAT DO YOU DO NEXT? Make sure the kids first understand what FCCLA is all
about! This is important so when they tell others they are
in the group, they can say what it stands for and really talk about the meaning of the association!
Pick a service-learning project to focus on! What are the needs within your community? Ask
around and find out! Then once you do one thing, the community will
keep coming to you for help!
Attend Fall Leadership Rally! (you do NOT need to be an affiliated member to do this!)
Once you affiliate…attend your District meeting to learn more about FCCLA!
WHAT DO YOU DO NEXT?
You can pick a fundraiser to try out to earn money for state conference in March!
Go to state conference and see amazing speakers, attend great breakout sessions, and watch students compete in STAR Events! Great first way to learn about STAR Events before
trying them out! Volunteer to help judge or be a room consultant!
IMPORTANCE & INTEGRATION OF FCCLA TO YOUR FCS PROGRAM
It’s hard for me to picture being a FCS teacher WITHOUT FCCLA!
Integration! Implement the National FCS Standards through
FCCLA! Connection with real-word: authentic learning! Use the planning process in day to day activities,
projects, etc. Power of One Modules National Programs and STAR Events
All students can do these projects, but it’s up to those who want to affiliate and become members who can do more with it in FCCLA!
IMPORTANCE & INTEGRATION OF FCCLA TO YOUR FCS PROGRAM
You can start projects in class and use FCCLA resources This is really easy to do when you incorporate it
to what you are already doing in class. This gets kids excited to want to do
something beyond the classroom…a service learning event…which they can take their initial project and turn it into a STAR Event…..all co-curricular.
Truly markets your program! You get to show your school and community
what FCS is all about! And they WILL know!
STAR EVENTS
STAR (Students Taking Action with Recognition) events
Do not need to participate in STAR Events within your first year! Best way to learn is to come to state conference and
watch students present! Rubrics and guidelines online to download and print off
Students compete at District, then advance onto State Those with the “highest gold” advance to Nationals!
STAR EVENTS CONTINUED…
When you decide to take on STAR Events, just start with one or two!
Take the time to read through the rubrics and guidelines and really get to know the event and what is expected.
Once you become familiar with one, you will easily learn about others!
Remember you are there to guide the students, but it is their project to do and create!
FUNDRAISING IDEAS!
My biggest success as an adviser has been sugar cookies! Halloween – between 600-800 sold! $1 each Valentine’s Day – between 800-1000 sold $1 each Did spring ones this year to help with Nationals!
Flowers at Valentine’s Day Scensty! 25% of total profits! Buffalo Wild Wings night! Garage & Bake Sale Farmer’s Market Listen to the kids!
They come up with the ideas, organize and plan, and run with it!
Lots of ideas listed on the websites!
SERVICE LEARNING PROJECTS
Again…what does your community need?
Children’s Miracle Network Toys for Tots Children and Families of Iowa Blood Drive! Students come up with individual or smaller
group projects for their STAR events! Raised money for FCCLA member’s family
who was in need from a house fire
TIPS, SUGGESTIONS, ADVICE! Find one or two students who are really passionate
and who are truly leaders! Take some kids to Fall Leadership Rally! These kids will
get to know what FCCLA is all about and can come back and share with others!
Integrate as much as possible into your classroom so your FCCLA time is in class! Shouldn’t be looked at as “extra work!”
Promote your program! Keep your administrators up to date! Write articles for school website, create your own FCCLA
site, send email updates to the school, create movies, etc.
HAVE YOUR STUDENTS DO THIS!!! Make a Facebook or Twitter page!
Search for “Iowa FCCLA” on Facebook or search “@IAFCCLA” on Twitter!
TIPS, SUGGESTIONS, ADVICE!
Take one step at a time! Start small! Don’t feel like you need to do
everything your first year! Don’t be afraid to ask for help from other
advisers…you can always email me, I’m more than willing to help out!
Once you have a chapter, showcase your accomplishments! Create a “wall of fame”, a chapter scrapbook, and/or collect quotes and stories from students about their experiences in FCCLA!
Review the www.iafccla.org and www.fcclainc.org websites for more great information, dates, etc.
THIS IS AN I-MOVIE PUT TOGETHER FROM MY 1ST TWO YEARS AS AN ADVISER AT VAN METER THAT WAS HELPFUL TO SHOW STUDENTS A LITTLE MORE ABOUT WHAT IT “LOOKS” LIKE!
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