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Debbie Ebner

Hewitt-Trussville High School 

SELECTED AS

TOP BUSINESS/MARKETING PROGRAM IN ALABAMA

                                                                                                     

This summer more than 350 Business/Marketing Education teachers from public schools across Alabama traveled to Mobile to attend the 2006 Alabama Career and Technical Education Professional Development Conference held at the Mobile Convention Center.

 

Hewitt-Trussville High School’s Business/Marketing Education program was selected as one of the top programs in Alabama and was awarded the Business/Marketing Education Program of the Year Award. This award is only given to ten of the best Business/Marketing Education programs in Alabama each year.  Currently, there are 400 different Business/Marketing Education programs in Alabama.

 

The purpose of the Program of the Year Award, sponsored by the Alabama Department of Education’s Career/Technical Education (CTE) section, is to recognize the outstanding achievements of Alabama ’s top performing programs and best practice sites. Hewitt-Trussville High School’s Business/Marketing teachers are Debbie Ebner, Gleeda Alvis, Wanda Wright, and Mark Snider.

 

Alabama's Business/Marketing Education program gives students an opportunity to develop their leadership skills and promotes academic achievement. The program’s two student organizations, Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) and DECA, are not clubs, but instead are nonprofit co-curricular programs that teach students the value of a positive transition from school to the workforce and postsecondary learning opportunities.

 

Teachers who attended the conference had an opportunity to participate in over 60 different professional development workshops. The event’s keynote speaker, Dr. Bill Daggett, is known internationally for his Rigor, Relevancy, and Relationship education model and is the president of the International Center for Leadership in Education.

 

The Alabama Jump$tart Coalition, part of the Jump$tart National Coalition based in Washington, D. C., also presented financial literacy workshops, sponsored a luncheon, and gave copies of free professional resources and materials to all Business/Marketing Education teachers attending the three-day conference. The special guest speaker for the luncheon was Dan Iannicola Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Education, for the U. S. Department of the Treasury.  

 

CTE is a blend of academic, occupational, non-occupational, and life skills leading to further education and employment. Currently, one out of every two high school students in Alabama participates in a career/tech program.