• video

    45 minutes

  • practice activity

    30 minutes

  • Alignment reflection

    15 minutes

    • CPE credit

      1.5 hours

    Teaching with Purpose: Connecting the NBEA Standards to Classroom Practice

    This professional learning experience helps business educators translate NBEA standards into meaningful instruction and leave with a standards-aligned lesson plan built for their own classroom.
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    course contents

    What's included?

    Engagement Isn't Alignment

    A lesson where students are busy, creative, and having fun can still miss the mark. Section 1 gives you the distinction that might be the most important reframe in this course and you'll apply it immediately to something you already teach.

    Meet the NBEA Lesson Plan Creator

    Put that thinking to work. You'll run a real lesson through the NBEA Lesson Plan Creator, an AI-powered alignment tool built specifically for business educators, and generate a standards-connected plan you can take straight back to your classroom.

    From Concept to Classroom

    Nothing in this course stays theoretical. The lesson idea you brought in Section 1 leaves as a standards-anchored plan: checked, refined, and ready for Monday.

    Course Objectives

    This course is built around four things you'll walk away able to do:

    Engagement vs Alignment

    Distinguish between student engagement and standards alignment when evaluating a business education lesson.

    Anchoring Objectives

    Explain how outcomes, objectives and assessments anchor to the NBEA National Business Education Standards.

    Assessment Alignment

    Evaluate whether a lesson's activities and assessments genuinely demonstrate the skill being taught.

    From Plan to Practice

    Generate a standards-aligned lesson plan for your own classroom using the NBEA Lesson Plan Creator.
    Meet YOUR FACILITATOR

    SHAWNA STUSHNOFF

    Shawna Stushnoff, M.A., is the Education Manager at NBEA and a Quality Matters Master Reviewer with 25+ years spanning instructional design and organizational learning.

    She designs professional learning that educators can use the next morning — and believes a well-aligned lesson should still be the most fun one in the building.