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Business education resources from the National Business Education Association. Lesson plans, recorded sessions, publications and teaching materials, contributed by educators and reviewed by NBEA. Some resources are open to everyone; others are a benefit of membership.
Ready to bring the heat to your classroom? This high-energy workshop combines the best of Project-Based Learning (PBL) and real-world business education.
Canva's newest features as of June 2025, from Magic Studio and Sheets to AI integrations and brand tools, with real classroom examples.
Learn more about elements of experiential learning and how you can strengthen your project-based learning class activities.
Use Genially to create interactive tip graphics, image pop-ups, listening activities, escape rooms and board games for your classes.
Business Education Forum, Summer 2025: alternative delivery, immersive simulations, LinkedIn Learning, GenAI cases and digital credentials.
Learn new and relevant topics and projects that you can incorporate into your marketing curriculum to incorporate elements of Digital Marketing.
How to start a school store: managing inventory and cash, marketing the store, and staffing it.
How to design bell ringers that review, preview and engage students from the moment class begins, with examples across business subjects.
Use AI to build project rubrics quickly, customize them and use them for meaningful feedback, leaving with a project ready for tomorrow.
Types of AI, a framework for writing effective prompts, and ethical classroom uses of Google Gemini, MagicSchool and Consensus AI.
The stages of design thinking broken down simply, with classroom examples to help students become lifelong design thinkers.
This session will provide strategies for fostering teamwork, communication, and problem-solving through cooperative learning activities.
Turn business law from lecture into an interactive class with project-based learning, current event discussions and creative activities.
Learn to create collaborative activities you can use in many classes using a shared Canva whiteboard. Recorded in March 2025
Teaching veteran Tonya Skinner shares contemporary methods for keeping a class with diverse student skill sets productive.
Understanding Cognitive Thinking: System 1 vs. System 2, Thinking Fast and Slow, based on the work of Nobel Prize Winning Economist Daniel Kahneman.
Strategies from Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow to improve students' focus and decisions and help them avoid cognitive biases.
Use Copilot with competitive event guidelines to build practice case studies, and create a MagicSchool chatbot for CTSO preparation.
An edition of the Forum focused on how educators elevate business education.
How a Lemonade Day partnership teaches middle schoolers marketing, budgeting and customer service by running a lemonade stand.
Canva updates, marketing lessons, class templates and AI features for engaging students in social media marketing classes.
The 2024 Journal of Research in Business Education: peer-reviewed research on instructional practice, skill development and industry methods.
Accounting career paths, trends and skills to share with students, plus teaching resources from the American Accounting Association.
A collection of free business lesson plans, from personal finance to business law, drawn from NBEA, NGPF and FEE and sorted by subject.
