The CEA Committee is looking for speakers for the CEA Annual Convention (July 25–28, in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.). They are looking for sessions ranging from motivational to technical to methodology. The audience is purely beauty and wellness school educators—so sessions should be geared toward teachers and should not contain product selling. Click here for the application. Submissions will be accepted until March 1. 

Get specialized training for Financial Aid, Admissions and Owners/Management in one of the nation’s best cosmetology school education events. The Spring Operations Conference, May 2–5, will be in Phoenix, AZ, and registration is now open! The conference will include breakfast and lunch served daily, networking receptions, interactive workshops/roundtable discussions, an Expo Hall for you to visit vendors and Expert One-on-Ones, where you can book 20-minute slots with an expert in a variety of fields. Register now.

CEA is offering teachers a variety of different education events throughout 2014, so take advantage now. CEA Regional Events have been a huge hit with attendees and one of January’s attendees called it one of the best seminars she’s ever taken! There are still four cities left where you can attend (Atlanta, Denver, Philadelphia and Chicago). Click here for more information. The CEA Annual Convention also opened up registration and will be in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, July 25–28. Register now.

Beauty Changes Lives is dedicated to changing the lives of aspiring individuals looking to get into the beauty and wellness industry. BCL currently has four scholarship competitions open—and three of them are only available to AACS member schools (the fourth is open to licensed cosmetologists). Access marketing materials to help promote these scholarships to your prospects and new students.

What do PicMonkey, Timeline Slicer and BeFunky share in common? They’re all tools that make it easier for you to post social media images. A recent study found that Tweets containing images received 150% more retweets than their image-free counterparts. Here are 14 tools that can help you post images across platforms.

11 years (seven years full-time)

 

I taught at the middle school level and coached high school sports for eight years. My mom was a college teacher and dean for 35 years, so education has been in my blood. I get to work with my beautiful wife daily and we have three very beautiful girls. Aspen is 9 (in two weeks), Willow is 7 and Lendyn is 3.

 

John Halal introduced us to the AACS at a Nuts and Bolts Conference. He explained why we needed to become members and made us aware of the importance of getting involved. Since then, we became members, attend the conventions regularly and appreciate everything so much. Because of this, I have become eager to get involved in an effort to help in any way possible. There are too many benefits to risk missing out on!

 

According to one of America’s greatest entrepreneurs, the secret to eternal youth just might be learning. Consider the words of Henry Ford, "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." Today, continuing education is about much more than staying young. Indeed, it is a matter of survival. In addition to possessing the technical knowledge of cut, color and cosmetics, beauty and wellness educators must also be savvy in terms of career placement, student retention, classroom engagement, and did we mention compliance? Read Your Fire: Your Purpose in the latest edition of BeautyLink.