What is a school-based enterprise? A plain-English guide
SBEs explained for teachers, parents, and administrators: what they are, where DECA fits, and what students actually learn behind the counter.
The Huddle
Teaching Business
The Friday Huddle: a weekly business review, sized for a school store
Six numbers, 20 minutes, every Friday: the review ritual the best-run companies live by, scaled to a store that's open 40 minutes a day.
The DECA SBE certification guide for store advisors
What chapter certification actually takes, how your store's daily records become the SBE manual, and a fall prep plan that beats the January deadline.
Building the store into your curriculum
For teachers who want the store to count as coursework: the five layers of store-as-curriculum, what exists today, and what we're building next.
Turning inventory counts into a margin lesson
Count day finds the gap between what should be on the shelf and what is. That gap is one of the best lessons your store will ever teach.
Role-play with your own numbers
DECA prep gets sharper when the case study is the store down the hall. A practice format built on your own sales data.
The semester close
One class period, the whole semester's data, and the review ritual that turns a season of sales into the best lesson of the term.
Competition season, powered by the store
Districts, state, and the written events: how a semester of real store records becomes a competition portfolio.
A shift is a lesson plan
One 40-minute store shift, mapped task by task to the business skills it teaches, plus the debrief that makes the learning stick.
What Gold SBE stores do differently
The habits that separate certified stores from good intentions, drawn from the certification bar itself and the programs that clear it.
The year-end wrap: what to show your principal
Ten minutes, six slides, one year of real numbers: the readout that secures the store's next year while everyone's still proud.