Breakout Sessions

DECA Personal Branding Challenge - Powered by Adobe Express - Jeff Champlin, Boulder High School

Incorporate DECA’s Personal Branding Challenge into your curriculum. Teach your students the importance of Personal Branding by having them complete the Personal Branding Challenge in your classroom using Adobe Express. Get the templates, lesson plans, and all deadlines involved to allow individual students yet another way to attend ICDC.

Adobe Express Reboot - Tools, Tips, and Tricks - Jolynn Baral, Riverdale Ridge High School

Gain the basics of Adobe Express for Education, or refresh your skills and learn new tools and tricks since last year’s training. Discover where to access Learning tools and templates in Adobe Express.

High School of Business (HSB) - Janet Brophy

The High School of Business (HSB) is a project based, rigorous business program of study. Students work in teams on real projects, providing an authentic reason for learning. The curriculum is engaging, challenging, and provides skills for the students for the world of business. HSB is on the CDIP list.  

Making the World Your Classroom: Career Exploration for Business Students - Heather Keeton & Andrea Jacobsen

In an increasingly interconnected world, preparing CTE students to solve problems on a global scale is paramount. Discover the transformative power of immersive learning experiences in bridging the gap between classroom learning and real-world careers, unlocking student potential and equipping them with the PWR skills needed to thrive in a globalized career landscape. Learn how to implement travel-based learning to gain industry exposure on a global scale that can inform students’ career decisions and develop students' PWR skills—adaptability, critical thinking, collaboration, self-awareness, communication, agency, and social-emotional intelligence—preparing them for global competitiveness.

DECA Food Truck Challenge - Powered by Adobe Express - Jeff Champlin, Boulder High School

Incorporate DECA’s Food Truck Challenge into your curriculum. Teach your students how to create a food truck concept that meets the needs of a specific target market. Students learn about Brand Tool kits, logo design, creating a food truck wrap, pinpointing market segmentation, and so much more. This is a perfect challenge to complete in Entrepreneurial classes, Marketing classes of any level, and more! Get the templates, lesson plans, and all deadlines involved to allow individual students yet another way to attend ICDC.

Creative Chaos - Using Gamification in the Classroom - Terri Donegan-Sanchez

Utilize collaborative activities that center on student discovery to study and use information to problem solve.Help students  defend their places, reframe ideas, and understand others points of view. Lets make learning fun again.

Power to the Students: Student-Led FBLA Strategies - Nikia Hunt

Ready to hand over the reins? Learn how giving your FBLA students real decision-making power can boost motivation, leadership, and chapter growth. Walk away with actionable strategies and free resources that will help you launch or revamp your student-led CTSO chapter!

Elevating Business Courses with Academic Standards - Jennifer Cormier

Take your business courses to the next level by blending CTE and academic standards into powerful, real-world learning. Walk away fresh strategies, rubircs, and tools that make classes engaging, rigorous, and impactful for your students and school.

Crush FBLA Presentations - Powered by Adobe - Jolynn Baral, Riverdale Ridge High School

Go into this FBLA Competitive Season with confidence by promoting your students to use Adobe Express to create their content for FBLA Presentation Events like: Sales Presentation, Social Media Marketing, Intro to Business Presentation, Electronic Career Portfolio, Graphic Design, Visual Design, and Website Design.

Bridging the Gap: Strategies for Real-World Readiness in High School Business Classrooms - Adam Shelffo

This breakout session will explore practical, postsecondary-inspired instructional strategies that high school business and marketing teachers can implement immediately. Attendees will engage in interactive activities, receive ready-to-use templates, and learn how to enhance DECA integration, industry connections, and student-run enterprises to better prepare students for real-world success.

AP Business Courses from College Board - Jess Becker

Come learn more about the College Board program launching in the 2026-27 school year, AP Business with Personal Finance is a yearlong high school business and personal finance course that aligns closely with a college-level introduction to business course. Students explore the business disciplines of entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, accounting, and management through real-world business applications, case studies, and project based learning.

Playbook to Paychecks: Teaching Students Real-World Finance - ENT Credit Union

Looking for new ways to bring financial literacy to your students? Join us for an interactive session where we’ll spotlight our free programs that help teens connect real-world money skills with classroom learning. You’ll experience how we use tools like Mentimeter to make lessons stick and see just how simple it is to bring these programs to your school.