Rubin Education plans to incorporate 60-second audio segments to its online curriculum in winter 2019.
The segments, called “Take My Word for It with Danny Rubin,” provide educators short yet substantive “mini-mini podcasts” they can play in the classroom to set up a discussion or classroom activity.
The audio topics will complement the three major themes in the online curriculum: employability skills, entrepreneurship and leadership.
Residents of the Norfolk-Va Beach area will also hear the “Take My Word for It” segments on 89.5 WHRV, the local radio affiliate of National Public Radio (NPR).
We will post a sample audio clip in early February. The full library, organized by topic (ex: interoffice communication), will be available in the online curriculum for participating schools and organizations.
After business hours on Wednesday, January 19, an office building in Virginia Beach was a hub of energy and a film crew yelling, “action!”
That’s because Rubin Education founder Danny Rubin gathered a half dozen young professionals to stage a series of “how-to” instructional videos for the Rubin Education online curriculum, a learning platform that teaches students critical communication skills for the job search and the workplace.
During the three-hour video shoot, the group tackled important topics like:
How to shake hands and make eye contact
How to call employers on the phone
How to hold face-to-face networking conversations
How to answer an employer’s questions during a job interview
And more!
As well, every young professional “actor” looked into the camera and shared his/her best career advice for students.
The videos will be available inside the Rubin Education online curriculum by January 2019. Teachers who use the program will receive an email notification when the content is ready.
To learn more about the Rubin Education online curriculum and how the program can help your students with employability skills, click here!
On Monday, December 10, Rubin Education founder Danny Rubin led a workshop on workplace readiness skills for about 40 career and technical education (CTE) department chairs across Fairfax County Public Schools.
The department chairs represent every middle school and high school in the district. CTE classes include subject areas like culinary arts, health sciences, cosmetology and other vocations.
The hope is for department chairs to consider Rubin Education books and online curriculum and help their students with email etiquette, networking and other important soft skills.
Fairfax County is the largest school system in Virginia and 10th largest in the country. Thank you to the Fairfax County central administration team for finding value in Rubin Education materials and giving Danny the platform to share information with its teachers.
Rubin is excited to welcome educators across four more states into the learning community that helps students to strengthen their employability skills.
The educators are in Virginia, Oklahoma, Colorado and Massachusetts. They join teachers in 21 other states who rely on Rubin in the classroom.
The schools are:
Massaponax High School (Fredericksburg, Virginia)
High Plains Technology Center (Woodward, Oklahoma)
Haxtun High School (Haxtun, Colorado)
Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School (Bedford, Massachusetts)
In each school, select educators now use the Rubin Emerge online curriculum to teach students critical topics like email etiquette, networking and other interpersonal skills.
The curriculum features Danny Rubin’s award-winning books of writing templates and 100+ student activities. The activities include teacher’s guides, instructional videos and rubrics for assessment.
The teachers are part of the CTE (career and technical education) community, cover subjects like marketing and business and work with students through the CTE student organizations DECA and FBLA.
The material aligns with state workplace readiness standards and provides the skills students need to compete in competitions through DECA, FBLA and other student groups.
Rubin Education is proud to announce 33 educational institutions as the “first class” to use the company’s online learning platform for business communication skills.
The 33 schools encompass over 4,000 students across 21 states. The students are in a mix of middle schools, high schools, higher ed institutions and adult learning programs.
Each program has access to a robust online learning portal with hands-on lessons for writing/editing, networking and interpersonal skills across three core areas: employability, business promotion and leadership. The curriculum features 100+ student activities along with teacher guides, instructional videos and assessment tools (ex: rubrics).
In addition, the curriculum imparts social-emotional intelligence values like authenticity, civil discourse and relationship building.
The material serves as a resource library so educators can supplement instruction related to professional skills development.
The Rubin Education online curriculum features two of Danny Rubin’s books of writing templates (seen above) as ebooks which correspond with 100+ ready-made classroom activities on topics like email etiquette, networking and other key soft skills.
The “first class” includes educators from the following institutions:
Amherst County Public Schools — Amherst, VA Belle Point New Tech — Fort Smith, AR Branford High School — Branford, FL Campbell County High School — Alexandria, KY Columbia County School District — Lake City, FL Dinwiddie High School — Dinwiddie, VA Dover Area High School — Dover, PA East Paulding High School — Dallas, GA Fred Cherry Middle School — Suffolk, VA Fredonia USD 484 — Fredonia, KS Henry Ford II High School –Sterling Heights, MI Hillsdale High School — Hillsdale, MI Kato Public Charter School — Mankato, MN Kempsville High School — Virginia Beach, VA LSU School of Leadership and Human Resource Development — Baton Rouge, LA Lyford High School — Lyford, TX Minuteman High School — Lexington, MA Moreno Valley USD — Moreno Valley, CA Mountain Empire Community College — Big Stone Gap, VA Murray County Central — Murray County, MN Noble Adult & Community Education — North Berwick, ME Norwalk Community Schools — Norwalk, IA Okaloosa County School District — Okaloosa County, FL Payette River Technical Academy — Emmett, ID Plainview-Elgin-Millville High School — Plainview, MN Savannah State University — Savannah, GA Skidmore-Tynan Independent School District — Skidmore, TX South Umpqua School District #19 — Myrtle Creek, OR Stewarts Creek High School — Murfreesboro, TN T.C. Williams High School — Alexandria, VA Tulsa Tech — Tulsa, OK Van Meter Community School — Van Meter, IA Woden High School — Woden, TX
Educators! Click here for sample curriculum activities and to request free copies of Danny Rubin’s books, Wait, How Do I Write This Email?and Wait, How Do I Promote My Business?
I’m pleased to have several new teachers using Rubin Education books and curriculum in the 2018-2019 school year!
The material is a mix of either physical books or online curriculum with ebooks included. The classroom activities span a variety of in-demand communications topics across three main categories:
Employability skills
Business promotion
Leadership
At every turn, the focus is on writing, speaking and interpersonal skills. That means students from Oregon to California will learn how to use email etiquette, hold networking conversations, talk on the phone, create a LinkedIn profile, write a website, communicate with clients and so much more.
A snapshot of school districts who use Rubin Education books and curricula:
Moreno Valley UFD (Moreno Valley, CA)
Skidmore-Tynan ISD (Skidmore, TX)
Oklaloosa County School District (Fort Walton Beach, FL)
Richmond County School System (Augusta, GA)
Amherst County Public Schools (Amherst, VA)
Fredonia USD 484 (Fredonia, KS)
South Umpqua School District #19 (Myrtle Creek, OR)
Hillsdale Community Schools (Hillsdale, MI)
Stay tuned for more announcements as additional middle schools, high schools and colleges join up.
We’re excited to hit the road (and, at times, stay close to home) to lead workshops on critical communication skills for various CTE (career and technical education) audiences.
Here’s where we’re headed:
July 30, 2018: Virginia state conference for Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) — Virginia Beach, VA
Address FACS teachers at the annual professional development gathering
August 2, 2018: State conference for Virginia Association of Marketing Educators — Williamsburg, VA
Workshop on employability skills for marketing educators across the state
September 28, 2018: ACTE Region II Conference — Louisville, KY
Conduct two workshops that give educators strategies for employability and entrepreneurship skills
October 6-7, 2018: MBA Research Conclave — Kansas City, MO
Lead workshops on student employability and communication skills
October 15, 2018: State conference for the Virginia Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (VAEOPP) — Virginia Beach, VA
Workshop on how to teach students practical communication skills
At each stop, I will provide hands-on activities for email etiquette, networking and other important soft skill topics so teachers can bring material back into the classroom.
I also plan to have a booth at the exhibit hall for most of these conferences. Stop by the Rubin Education booth for samples and to learn more!
Many thanks to the team at CoVaBiz, a business magazine for Southeastern Virginia, for the glowing review of my book, Wait, How Do I Write This Email?
“Packed with expert guidance and real-world examples, Rubin provides millennials and seasoned professionals alike with the information they need to put their best foot forward when communicating in the virtual world.”
Rubin Education is excited to announce that Kempsville High School in Virginia Beach will use Danny Rubin’s Wait, How Do I Promote My Business? in the 2018-2019 school year.
Teachers in the school’s Entrepreneurship and Business Academy will incorporate the material into instruction. The 100+ writing templates in the book will guide students as they begin a business from scratch and promote their products or services to the school and broader community.
The announcement is even more gratifying because Rubin graduated from Kempsville High School in 2002.
Here’s what one of the Academy teachers had to say about the book:
“Wait, How Do I Promote My Business?is so practical and filled with immediate ways for our kids to understand and improve. Not only are the ideas/templates completely tangible, but each chapter gives my kids a way to use basic writing skills in efficient and concise ways.”
Since January 2018, Rubin has encouraged high schools and colleges across the country to use his books and corresponding curricula that teach strong communication skills. The addition of Kempsville High’s well-regarded entrepreneurship program is a step in the right direction.
That’s the takeaway from Patti O’Maley, a business and technology teacher at Payette River Technical Academy in Emmet, Idaho.
Since fall 2017, O’Maley has used my books and accompanying curricula to teach hands-on skills for employability and entrepreneurship. She leads both career management and marketing classes.
The books are Wait, How Do I Write This Email? (100 templates for the job search) and Wait, How Do I Promote My Business? (100 templates for entrepreneurship). Each book features a ready-made curriculum with dozens of classroom activities, instructional videos and post-assessment quiz questions.
