Join four school owners as they each share a personal story that has changed their business, their future and their life. 

As author Stephen Denning explains, "Storytelling is a persuasive technique because it’s quick, powerful, refreshing, moving and memorable. Stories help us make sense of organizations thereby allowing storytelling to be a crucial tool for leadership."

Through sharing experiences that generate curiosity, this session, followed by a brief Q and A, will explore individual stories that allow attendees to absorb ideas and value storytelling as an essential tool to build authenticity and trust. Register for the Schools Leaders Summit here.

Win an all-expenses paid trip to the 2017 CEA & AMP Convention

Do you or one of your educators want a chance to present at this year’s CEA & AMP Annual Convention? Create an 8-minute session on how you refuel your students’ passion in your school. Then, record and submit a 2-minute video explaining what you will teach, how you will deliver it, and how you will inspire your audience. Three winners will win an all-expenses paid trip to Vegas to be on stage in front of educators from across the United States. Visit this page to get all the details, and enter by May 15, to win!

A Kentucky bill – HB 272 – reducing the hours of instruction required for an esthetician license from 1,000 to 700 remains pending in the Senate. In Idaho, HB 139 makes several changes to current law including reducing the course of instruction for cosmetology from 2,000 hours to 1,600 hours, and reducing the course of instruction for barber-stylists by 200 hours to 1,600 hours. In Montana, HB 393 proposes to reduce the course of study required for a barbering license from 1,500 to 1,100 hours. For cosmetology, the measure proposes a school term not less than 1,500 hours, which is a 500-hour reduction from current law. 

Read more about these bills and more in this week’s AACS State Relations Update.

For more than 20 years, educators from around the nation turn the tables each summer and go from teacher to student at the CEA Annual Convention. And back by popular demand, this year’s convention includes the addition of an Admissions & Marketing track, making it the CEA & AMP Annual Convention. Refuel your passion with innovative workshops and presentations on classroom methodology, admissions and marketing. Register now!

AACS is currently monitoring over 250 bills of interest to cosmetology, barbering, esthetics and massage therapy schools. Please join us for a webinar reviewing key 2017 state public policy trends – including deregulation and the reduction of hours for licensure. AACS supports continued mandatory state licensing of Beauty and Wellness professionals, in all 50 states, to assure those entering the workforce have the requisite knowledge to secure a position and succeed as a new Beauty and Wellness employee, as well as to protect consumers against harm resulting from deregulation of the beauty industry. The activities of other groups seeking to impact state licensure of beauty industry professions will also be discussed. Presenters will include: Lynelle Lynch, Secretary of the AACS Board of Directors; Brenda Scharman, AACS State Relations Committee Co-Chair; Katherine Brodie, Special Counsel, Duane Morris LLP; and Brian Newman, AACS’ State Relations Adviser.

Register for this webinar and more for free on the AACS website. And did you miss a recent webinar? You can view them online here. 

 

Did you know the AACS Online Training Center offers 259 training modules that provide you and your educators the Continuing Education Credits needed to meet state standards? Topics range from Instructional Planning & Design to Leading with Influence; Financial Aid Management to Developing an Advertising Plan. Each course provides 4 hours of Continuing Education.