Category: High School

In 2019, Hillsdale High School students achieved major milestones in regional and state competition — and Rubin Education proved a critical resource to make it happen.

Here’s the story:

For the first time ever, Hillsdale students reached the Michigan state competition for Business Professionals of America (BPA) in two sought-after categories: Interview Skills and Advanced Interview Skills.

For background: BPA is a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) with chapters in high schools and colleges across the US. BPA is for students pursuing careers in business management, information technology, finance and office administration. The organization has 45,000 members in over 1,800 chapters across 25 states and Puerto Rico.

Hillsdale students first took top honors at the regional level in the Interview Skills and Advanced Interview Skills categories. Two other students from the school placed in the top three.

All four students then headed to the state competition where one student placed in the top ten — a new benchmark for the Hillsdale BPA team and feather in the cap for teacher Mindy Eggleston.

Eggleston feels the Emerge online program played a significant role in her team’s historic competition performance. During the 2018-2019 school year, the accounting and graphic design teacher used the curriculum to teach her students professional techniques for writing and speaking.

Eggleston paid particular attention to the self-directed Rubin Education activities on job interviews and storytelling. She had the students practice how to ask smart questions of the employer and share compelling stories of personal success.

When it was time to compete at the regional and state levels, the preparation showed.

“Rubin Education techniques made my students stand out immediately during CTSO competition,” said Eggleston. “I am thrilled with my students’ performance and grateful to have the Rubin Education online curriculum in my corner.”

Hillsdale student Ella Lewis agrees. Lewis, who graduated in 2019, believes Rubin Education made her better prepared for community college in fall 2019.

“The lessons helped me understand how to communicate with adults and be more confident in myself,” said Lewis.

Eggleston now has even bigger plans for BPA competitions in 2019-2020.

With Rubin as a key resource, the sky is the limit.

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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.

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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.

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Rubin Education’s book,Wait, How Do I Write This Email?, a collection of 100+ guides for networking the job search and LinkedIn, is an ideal fit for the classroom.

The book helps students understand the best ways to communicate with employers and recruiters in the real world.

That’s why we’re excited the Tazewell (Virginia) County Career and Technical Education Center will use the book in the 2017-2018 school year as part of its English curriculum.

Students attend the school and learn a variety of skilled trades (ex: welding, carpentry). But administration also understand students need to write and network with employers to land a job in Tazewell or elsewhere.

We hope to provide updates on the Tazewell pilot project throughout the year.

We’re thankful for early academic partners as we continue to introduce the material to classrooms across the country.

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