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Starting a LifeSmarts Club or Team at Your School

Starting a LifeSmarts Club or Team at Your School

We have many successful LifeSmarts coaches / advisers who conduct LifeSmarts in a club setting.

In many cases, school leadership (Principals, Superintendents, School Board, etc.) can provide stipends to educators who serve as Club Advisers.

Having a separate LifeSmarts Club can help when seeking approval / support for additional travel permissions, such as attending /competing in the FCCLA National Leadership Conference as well as the National LifeSmarts Championship, for example.

The documents found here are examples to help educators and advisers to develop their own LifeSmarts Club, LifeSmarts  “Quiz Bowl” Team, or simply to gain support for LifeSmarts fundraisers or other needs.

We hope that you find them useful. Please let us know how we can help!

Sample Letter Requesting to Start a LifeSmarts Club

Sample LifeSmarts Club Constitution

Sample Application for Chartering a Club

Sample Club Sponsor Request Form

Sample Club or Team Stipend Proposal Form

Example Supplemental Pay List for Coaching a LifeSmarts Team

Sample Club Sponsor Documentation Form

Starting a High School LifeSmarts Team or Club

 

LifeSmarts Educational Documents

Use these documents and information to assist with your quest to start a school team or club! 

LifeSmarts, the nation’s premier consumer program, provides real-world education for middle school and high school students.

This free educational program equips young people with the knowledge they need to help them succeed in adult life. While students learn about core consumer topics, they develop critical thinking skills in an interdisciplinary format.

To help educators easily adopt the program, LifeSmarts aligns with the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) Language Arts Standards. It provides educators with a manageable set of consumer concepts, keywords, and content vocabulary activities to enliven instruction in family and consumer sciences, business, technology classes, and more.

Classroom teachers, LifeSmarts coaches, and community educators will find that LifeSmarts also aligns with 21st Century Skills and provides meaningful activities, lessons, and competitions within the classroom and beyond.

Goals for students

  1. Learning new concepts to take with them into their “real” life.
  2. Creating a framework or scaffold to use to “store” the new input for future retrieval.
  3. Engaging in active learning.
  4. Responding to critical thinking questions in lessons and in competition.
  5. Moving along the continuum of higher order thinking from “knowledge” to the “evaluation” of consumer and financial information in the marketplace.

We support educators

  1. Providing free educational resources at LifeSmarts.org.
  2. Aligning our materials with Common Core and 21st Century Skills so that teachers across the country can easily see how our materials fit into a standards-based program.
  3. Producing current educational materials that integrate with and supplement high school curricula.
  4. Hosting no-cost online team competitions and contests, as well as in-person state and national competitions.

LifeSmarts Educational Documents