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Dear Coach,

Check out our collection of National Hispanic Heritage Month resources below as well as tips to manage your team roster!

Plan to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!

We have created a series of classroom and tournament resources to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month!

Poster Series » Commemorate the month in your school or recruit new members for your team with our posters featuring Hispanic/Latinx speech and debate coaches and alumni!
Literature Collection » Looking for new literature for speech events? Check out the initial list of works in our collection or suggest others for us to add.
Lesson Plans » Use our lesson plans and activities to bring National Hispanic Heritage Month into your classroom or practice!
Competition Resources » Download Congress, Extemp, and Impromptu resources to enhance your next practice.

Special thanks to our partners at the Sam Donaldson Center for Communication Studies for their work on this project!

View Hispanic Heritage Month Resources

Streamline How Students Sign Up for Tournaments

The Tabroom Signup System allows you to do away with that sheet of paper in the corner of your classroom where competitors illegibly sign up for tournaments. With this feature, you simply confirm the data the student has entered. Plus, it notifies debate/duo partners and parents when the student signs up! Read more »

Fall Board Meeting Agenda

The NSDA Board of Directors will hold its fall meeting September 21-23. In an effort to facilitate membership engagement and increase transparency, the Board and its leadership has decided to publish the agendas for each of the four meetings held during the year. It is extremely important to the Board that NSDA member coaches are aware of both the governance and competition/rule issues that will be addressed. Additionally, they want to facilitate Board level access for members to ask questions and offer comments regarding theses agenda items and/or other issues throughout the year. The fall agenda is available to read. Please feel free to email any comments or questions you may have concerning specific agenda items to board@speechanddebate.org. These will be compiled and presented to the Board for consideration. Minutes from the fall meeting will be published in the November/December issue of Rostrum.

Help Us Include New Audiences

One of our organizational goals is to expand access to speech and debate to new audiences. To do so, we must first get a snapshot of our membership. Please take a moment to help us in this effort by adding or updating the demographic information on your account page. Simply log in to your account and click “Edit” next to “Personal Info.” It only takes a minute and goes a long way in helping us drive inclusive participation!

Transferring Coaches and Students

If you are a high school coach and students on your team were members in middle school, or if there is a coach at your program who was a student member, please read on below. These steps allow those individuals to keep a percentage of the points they earned in their former role!

A graduated student who is now a coach » From your "School Roster" page, click "Transfer Coach" and then add the information about the high school student record (either their first and last name and state [as a high school student] or their high school student merit number) and click "Search," it will find the student's record and when you click "Transfer" next to the correct student record, it will ask you to "Confirm" and doing so will transfer the person to your roster as a new coach with 1/10th of their high school points and the record will be marked paid.

A graduated middle school student who is now at a high school » From your "School Roster" page, click "Transfer student" and then add the information about the student's middle school record (either their full name and state or their middle school student merit number) and click "Search," it will find the midde school student's record and when you click "Transfer" next to the correct student record, it will ask you to "Confirm" and doing so will transfer the person to your roster with 1/10th of their middle school points, with a maximum of 50 (500 middle school) points.

Resource Roundup

Extemp Practice Questions » In addition to the free Extemp questions we released for National Hispanic Heritage Month, you can access ten practice questions for both U.S. and International Extemporaneous Speaking. Learn more about Extemp »

Big Questions Debate » The 2018-2019 Big Questions Debate topic is, Resolved: Humans are primarily driven by self-interest. Students can access sample constructives for the affirmative and negative and you can download a judge primer to help introduce community members to the event! Learn more about Big Questions »

Policy Debate Lesson Plans » If you're a classroom teacher, be sure to check out the list of twelve lesson plans for Policy from Three Diamond NSDA coach Jenny Achten and get started planning! Learn more about Policy »

Competition Events Guide » If you want to learn more about what makes a student successful in a particular event, take a look at our High School and Middle School Competition Events Guides!

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