79-FCCLA Series: Affiliating FCCLA

<p>•  Where do we start, how do I begin? Maybe you are a classroom teacher who is just starting, never had it before, or maybe you are new to a current chapter, something that's already in existence, either way, you have to start somewhere. So I'll just start with my own story, I guess, 'cause that's the easiest for my perspective, when I enter in my classroom, I took over for a previous teacher who had a really strong FCCLA chapter, not like crazy award winning national officers or anything like that, but a strong, solid chapter who loved to do community service projects, and so as soon as I entered the classroom, they... This tight-knit group of FCCLA members came up to me and they're like, We're doing FCCLA this year, right?. Like Of course, of course we are. I don't know what that's gonna look like, but it's gonna happen. So my advice would be one, starting to start small and start with those student members, get them to be the leader, ask them what they wanna do... (2:28)</p><p>•  We want it to be this easy part of what you're already doing in Family and Consumer Sciences, because all of our competitive events, national programs, projects, things that you could earn money, it's all stuff that you are already doing in family consumer sciences. Everything that we offer is tied to family and consumer sciences national standards, it's tied to our Career Pathways, it's designed to be easy for FCS teachers, and in fact, it's designed to make your program or robust as a family and consumer sciences teacher. So it really is a win-win.  (4:26)</p><p>•  Okay, so we've been talking about the set up and getting our students involved in these rubrics and in that integration, but if you're a new, a new FCCLA advisor, where are you getting these rubrics, is there some sort of portal that you're going?... Yes. Portal is the magic word.  Yes, on the on the FCCLA website, so it's FCCLAinc.org. There is the portal, it's like this big huge red box that says Log in, and you actually have two options, you can log in as an advisor