1. Welcome to Open House!
Business Dynamics I
THANK YOU for allowing me the privilege to work with your student!
Thank you for coming this evening. My name is ____and I’m delighted to have your child in my class. This course used to be a full year course, but with scheduling difficulties we decided to offer it in two separate semesters. I hope that your child has opted to take the second semester course.
We are quite proud of our department where we offer approximately 30 different courses for students to take from marketing to finance to computer technology. Of those 30 courses, seven offer college credit.

2. Kristie
Burch
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Brett
Lasser
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Casey
Sanderson
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Contact Information
Kristie
Burch
Brett
Lasser
Casey
Sanderson

3. What Will your child learn in business Dynamics I?
How are businesses structured?
How does the economy impact the flow of money
What will the workplace look like in the future?
How do I choose a career that best fits my wants and needs?
How can one obtain a job?
Business Dynamics is our intro to business course. Hopefully your children have told you a little bit about what we have been doing in class. They are working in business teams right now competing against each other and learning about our economy, and learning about running a business and making decisions about pricing, production, promotion, capital investments, and research and development.

4. Types of Assessment Formative Summative
Assignments given throughout the unit to get a benchmark as to where a student stands at that point in time
Grade will be shown in Infinite Campus, however will not count towards calculation
Meant to provide students/parents/and teachers with information regarding progress towards the learning standard(s)
Assignment given to assess a student’s final learning in relation to the learning standard(s)
Grade will be shown in Infinite Campus and count towards calculation

5. Re-Do’s and Re-Takes Provided at teacher discretion
Students need to complete test corrections prior to re-taking the assessment
Students must complete re-take within a set amount of time
Most recent grade will be used in grade calculation. Refer to the comments to view original score

6. Business Dynamics 2 It’s all about money! Budgeting Banking Credit
Insurance
Comparison shopping

7. New York City Trip Previous Activities Have Included:
Financial District
Radio City Music Hall
Madison Square Garden
Macy’s
Broadway Show
Times Square
Exact itinerary TBD
Pending board approval, dates October 26-27
Information will be provided to students in class as well as via
Each year we take our business students to NYC. The seniors are given first option to join us, then juniors, sophomores, and finally freshman. It is an exciting trip for all of our students because it touches on finance as well as marketing.
KEEP OR UPDATE????

8. Other Business Courses
There is a list of all other business courses on the back of the information sheet you received.
Marketing

9. Leadership development Seminar (LDS) Cooperative Work Experience
LDS a pre-requisite for Co-Op and Internships
*Meet 1x per week during lunch
*Pass/fail
Co-Op
Credit for Working!
1 Unit for 300 Hours
1/2 Unit for 150 Hours
Job Success Through Mentoring

10. Bookstore Earn community service hours after school
Resume building activity
Experience in customer service and working with money

11. DECA
A student organization exclusively for those involved with Business classes
Recognized internationally
Competitions help build their leadership, social & academic skills
The Business Dynamics students can join our DECA organization. This is a wonderful opportunity for them to work with upperclassmen on projects that will be presented at the regional, state and national level. Our students have done very well with these competitions in past years—it is so exciting to win!!