Six Month Membership Survey | National Speech & Debate Association

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DID YOU KNOW: Coaches simultaneously earn the points recorded for their students?*

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ProTip: As a coach, you qualify for membership and advanced degrees according to the same schedule provided for students. Coaches earn seals to embellish their membership certificate, and are eligible to purchase the appropriate gold insignia as they advance. On attaining a total of 15,000 points after at least five years of coaching, the instructor will be entitled to wear a diamond-set Association key or pin, provided by the organization.

DID YOU KNOW: An instructor who obtained membership as a student maintains all of their student points toward their coaching record?*

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ProTip: If you need to add a student into a coaching roster (because they’ve graduated and are now coaching), you must search for them using the name they used while competing or you can enter their ID number from their high school student record. When the new coach is added, they will be listed with all of the points they earned as a high school competitor.

If the student (who is now a coach) graduated prior to 1996, they will not be in our system but will be in our paper files. Please send an email to info@speechanddebate.org with the coach’s name, the school and state they are coaching at, as well as their name when they graduated from high school, the school and state they graduated from, and the grad year. Once we have this information, we can manually add their high school points to their new coaching record.

DID YOU KNOW: Up to 200 service points may be reported per student per year?*

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ProTip: Review the "Recording Non-Competitive/Service Speaking" section of the Unified Manual to see all the ways students can earn points. Service activities can be recorded retroactively for the current and immediate past school years.

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