This article, the first of a two-part series, presents teaching 10 innovations from the 2015 Association for Business Communication's 80th annual conference. The creative new assignments offered here include building listening skills by journaling, oral interpretation, positive message framing, storytelling, delivering bad news, persuasive messages, and learning by teaching. Additional assignment support materials--instructions to students, stimulus materials, slides, grading rubrics, frequently asked questions, and sample student projects--are posted on these websites: http://www.businesscommunication.org/page/assignments and http://www.salesleadershipcenter.com/research.html#mfa16. [The ten teaching innovation sections are written by: Peter W. Cardon, Jamie Granger, Jacqui Lowman, Anita Pandey, Catherine H. Zizik, D. Dina Friedman, Daylanne Markwardt, Allyson D. Saunders, Cherie S. Twyman, and Jie Wang.}