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Welcome to the second Community Connect and another batch of at-a-glance speech and debate resources and tools to share with your members!
What's Inside:
- Welcome to Coaching Speech & Debate Video Series
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New Program Grants
- Student Expert Event Breakdowns
- Equity Resources
- And More!
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New Study About the Benefits of Speech and Debate
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Check Out the Welcome to Coaching Speech & Debate Video Series
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Do you have new coaches this season? Would you like a simpler way to deliver your "new coaches’ spiel"? Then you’ll love our new Welcome to Coaching Speech & Debate Video Series! Unlike our NSDA Coaching Course, which focuses solely on coaching NSDA events, this series offers a concise, easy-to-understand introduction to the activity—making it perfect to share with your new coaches or anyone interested in starting a program.
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The Pay It Forward grant is available to start new programs and for under-resourced schools or schools experiencing hardship. This grant provides two years of a school membership, a free coach membership, and up to ten free student memberships. If you know of schools that should receive this grant in order to start or maintain a speech and debate program, please email membership@speechanddebate.org and mention the promo code "PIF-Community Connect."
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Free, Live Online Multicultural Learning Sessions for Coaches
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The Multicultural Learning Alliance (MLA) is a learning community for coaches starting or early in their DEI journey and/or passionate about understanding and supporting their students from all identities, particularly those from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. It is a judgment-free zone where coaches can ask questions and develop strategies to engage diverse spaces—without fear or threat of making a misstep.
If you have coaches who want to increase their multicultural competence, invite them to attend these MLA sessions! There is one per month, January - May. They are live via Zoom, free, and open to all coaches, no NSDA membership is required. Join us 30 minutes prior for a review of the previous session.
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| Understanding Multicultural Competence
January 24 at 7:00 p.m. CT
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2023-2024 Judges For Hire List
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If your teams need to hire judges, point them to the 2023-2024 Judge Hub for an easy-to-search list of contacts who have signed up to judge speech and debate tournaments this season.
They can search by state, grad year, event preference, and more!
If you have folks who want to volunteer to judge, they can make themselves available by adding their name to judge hub. Share the sign up form »
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Share Event Breakdowns from Student Experts
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We have compiled a video series of student experts sharing their practice tips, in-round strategies, and more. This is a peer-to-peer way for students to learn from the best to become their best!
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Congressional Debate Round Breakdown
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This video breaks down an introductory Congress round, explaining the role of the presiding officer (PO), authorship and sponsorship speeches, precedence, affirmative and negative speeches, questioning, and voting as the elements unfold on screen.
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| We hope your season is going well and you find these resources useful.
If you have ideas for other videos or tools that would help grow speech and debate in your area, or if you have a program or opportunity you would like us to share, please let us know.
Happy holidays and enjoy the winter break!
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