DECA recognizes outstanding school stores


Published/Last Modified on Saturday, March 15, 2008 1:45 PM MDT


The School-Based Enterprise (SBE) at Douglas High School was among the school stores that achieved Gold Level Certification this year and will be recognized at DECA’s International Career Development Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The students that worked on the Certification were President Leila Martinez and member, Octavio Cruz, with the assistance of their advisor Lourdes Mora. The school store at Douglas High School has operated an SBE for less than one year and is to be commended for this achievement.


Douglas High School will be recognized at DECA’s International Career Development Conference in Atlanta.

School-based Enterprises are effective educational tools in helping to prepare students for the transition from school to work or college. For many students, they provide the first work experience; for others, they provide an opportunity to build management, supervision and leadership skills. While some in the education community have only recently discovered the value of school-based enterprises, marketing educators and DECA advisors have used them as a powerful teaching tool for more than four decades

DECA’s School-based Enterprise (SBE) Certification Program was developed to provide recognition for outstanding achievement by school-based enterprises and to motivate SBEs to strive for excellence and to grow.

School stores can be certified at three levels: Bronze, Silver or Gold.  In order to apply for the certification, SBEs must submit extensive documentation showing how they have achieved set standards that are outlined in the Certification Guidelines.  After the documentation is submitted, a Review Committee evaluates the documentation to determine which level of certification has been achieved.

DECA is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit student organization preparing its membership for careers in marketing, management and entrepreneurship. DECA operates in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Canada, Germany and Mexico through charters held by each state’s/province’s department of education. DECA has over 185,000 members nationwide.

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Comments

    Excited wrote on Mar 19, 2008 1:19 PM:

    " This is a wonderful testimony of the excellent job that the High School is doing to meet the needs of their students. "

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