Want to make FCCLA more CO-curricular (rather than EXTRA)? This session will show you how to integrate FCCLA STAR Events into your curriculum to boost student motivation and achievement.  Learn how STAR Events can serve as performance-based assessments, enhance career readiness, and foster leadership—all while meeting your instructional goals. Walk away with adaptable resources, sample rubrics, and fresh inspiration to bring STAR power into your classroom!

Food Safety and Sanitation Certifications
-Katelyn Adams, Iowa Restaurant Association

Global Cuisine: The Amazing Trek
-Glenda Seward, Mid-Prairie High School
Looking for ideas to incorporate international cuisine into your curriculum? This session provides lesson plan details, recipes, tips, and strategies for promoting greater appreciation and understanding of international cultures and global cuisine. Student teams engage in an immersive game structure to trek to various world regions where they learn about the culture, cuisine, and cooking techniques unique to each region we visit and compete to earn  'miles' with presentations and food sampling for a team of judges. The ideas and plans from this session can be adapted for use, whether you are teaching a unit or a full course.
Attendees will learn effective strategies for teaching units and courses in global cuisine, international foods. Attendees will leave with access to lesson plans and teaching materials to adapt for their classrooms to teach this content.

Vendor Spotlight: Money Habitudes
- Cara Macksoud, Money Habitudes

Welcome to the New Career Clusters!
- Lisa Stange, ACTE Member, Retired FCS Teacher

Overview of the new Career Clusters and guidance on how FCS and the many careers our programming connects to the framework. We'll review the importance of the framework and how to communicate with your stakeholders, colleagues, and students about FCS.

Here are some resources and great articles to share with your colleagues: 

Family and Consumer Sciences in the National Career Clusters Framework

Guidebook: The Modernized National Career Clusters® Framework

Connecting Career and Technical Student Organizations to the National Career Clusters Framework

Crosswalk: Original and Modernized Career Clusters Framework

Explainer: Interdisciplinary Elements of the National Career Clusters Framework

Empowering Futures by Turning Electives into Meaningful Career Pathways

Industry Sector Profiles

O*Net Online  The O*NET Program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. Valid data are essential to understanding the rapidly changing nature of work and how it impacts the workforce and U.S. economy. This can be used to help with program development and curricular planning.