Youth Entrepreneurs

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Looking for resources to give your students for starting a business? Here’s a great introductory guide that walks them through generating their first ideas:

Guide to Starting a Business in High School For Teens - Crimson Education US Ever wondered how to start a business whilst in High School? In this article we provide 6 tips to do just that.

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CTE teaches students some of the most valuable lessons they’ll ever learn. It’s full of skills that will be useful in any career they might choose.

6 Reasons Why CTE Is So Important Career and Technical Education (CTE) has always played an important role in secondary education and has increased in popularity. Did you know that the

Looking for capstone project ideas as the year comes to a close? We’ve got some great options over on the Empowered Hub! Sign up today to check out our Market Day capstone activity.

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Looking for some inspiration for your end-of-year auction? Maybe some incentives for a final presentation competition? We’ve got you covered:

Best Incentives for 2022 - Empowered Just read our "Bribe Your Kids" article and want some inspiration? Here are some great items you can use in your classroom to kick off your first auction.

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CTE is a unique collection of subjects that are always evolving to meet the moment. As such, CTE teachers prepare our kids for the challenges they will face as soon as they graduate. It’s an important job and one that can leave a lasting impact.

Read this great Edutopia piece about how CTE finds increasing relevance in today’s education system:

CTE and the Demands of the Moment Modern career and technical education programs emphasize both college and career readiness—even during a pandemic.

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The teaching career is changing in more ways than we could’ve dreamed. However, there are also many ways in which it is the same.

Check out this reflection on teaching trends over the past 100 years and how predictions of the future might be way off:

The Future Ain't What It Used To Be - TEACH Magazine TEACH Magazine delivers pragmatic tools and resources to K-12 educators everywhere.

We live in a world powered by tech. It’s important we’re teaching our students how to interface with and quickly learn new platforms so they’re prepared for their careers:

https://www.k12dive.com/spons/everyones-responsibility-students-succeed-when-leaders-talk-technology/617535/

Everyone's responsibility: Students succeed when leaders talk technology When it comes to education, everyone needs a seat at the table. To achieve that, school districts should follow the same guiding light.

Learning business skills during school can set students up for the rest of their lives!

Check out this story about students who run a business during school hours and provide value to their peers:

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Running a Business in School Students learn skills like maintaining inventory, marketing, and scheduling while working in a cafe as part of a business class.

One of the greatest strengths of teachers is that they’re always able to come up with creative solutions to big problems. That includes problems that arise in the career of teaching itself:

Confronting the School Staffing Crisis With Creative, Community Solutions - EdSurge News Around late July every year, my husband and I sit down with our calendars and make sincere attempts to plan our year according to the first-year ...

Collaborating with a team, public speaking, and critical thinking skills are necessary for virtually any career. All of these skills are cultivated and honed through business education:

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Why Is Business Education Important Today? - Big Easy Magazine   In today’s society, it’s essential to have a deep understanding of business processes and their role in our lives. People from every industry rely on business laws to succeed. […]

Starting a business at a young age is incredibly empowering but also incredibly stressful for young entrepreneurs. For Valentine’s Day, share with them these 5 pieces of advice to help them try to stay sane:

5 pieces of advice for young entrepreneurs on this Valentine’s Day Listen, I don’t know about love and romance in your 30s or 40s. I can’t know. I am still young and awesome. But I know in your 20s, you…

When young entrepreneur Jack Parsons tried to reach out for help entering the business world, no one would meet with him. It was then that he decided to make it his mission to “kick down doors for others to walk through” and created Big Youth Group. Check out his story and his best advice for young entrepreneurs now!

Meet Jack Parsons, CEO of The Youth Group Find out who Jack Parsons is, as well as what Big Youth Group does to help young people.

“Going Bananas” is experiential learning on steroids! It creates a multi-sensory, emotionally engaging environment in which your students, individually and collectively, decide the degree to which they will leverage the freedom you give them to negotiate, how principled they will behave towards each other, what intrinsic and extrinsic incentives will motivate them to achieve the objectives, and how, by being proactive, they assess the value that they and their classmates can create when motivated to achieve a focused outcome.

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Young Entrepreneur Timothy Armoo sold his first business at the ripe age of 17, after only working on it for a little under a year. Now, at 24, he is helping Tiktok stars leverage their success and build their personal brands. He saw an opportunity in the power of social media and grabbed on!

Fanbytes is helping TikTok stars cash in on their viral success TikTok’s top names now have millions of followers. Entrepreneur Timothy Armoo founded Fanbytes to help them make the most of their fame

In the experiential classroom, learning new vocabulary can feel like a chore. Help students get more active with vocab lessons by using “Vocabulary Frames.” They’ll put the word in the middle, then frame it up using context clues, pictures, and definitions. They can then use these to reference later or practice with.

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What trends can our young entrepreneurs expect for the upcoming year? Considering the last few years, the answers should surprise no one. Let’s challenge our students to think about sectors like the “gig economy” as we innovate in class.

The three biggest entrepreneur trends in 2022 - Rising Innovator This year has been another year of ups and downs for many young entrepreneurs. The future can be unpredictable. But...

Today’s activity, “It’s A Zoo,” is designed with our younger YE students in mind.

By using a subject and a well-known location, your young students will learn to understand concepts like subjective value and voluntary exchange in a super-relatable way.

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How many hours do you ACTUALLY think you spend on Tiktok? Are there actually not enough hours in the day, or are you just spending them doing the wrong stuff? In today’s activity, “24 Hours,” students will be setting time-use goals and comparing how they’re actually spending their time to how they’d like to be.

Join them for a real jolt to your system. :)

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How can students build resilience when helicopter parents remove every obstacle that is put in their children’s way? Lydia, with the help of an old Austrian dude, just might have the answer!

Dear Lydia - Empowered I’m a 25-year-old female history teacher, and I feel like I sound like a Boomer for what I’m about to say… but it’s true! Many kids these days (see how it starts?) face very few obstacles from the moment they’re born until they get to my 10th-grade history class. Parents seem fixated on re...

Marketing... it’s about the right product, at the right price, in the right place, and at the right time. Today’s activity, “Channel Challenge,” gets students out of their seats and thinking about the marketing mix through action.

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Today’s activity, “Let’s Make A Law,” asks students to do just that: create a new bill that they think solves some problem.

Students are able to make use of an awesome tool to organize their brainstorm. It’s something we call the “9 Questions Organizer” and it really helps students to keep thoughts and ideas organized.

Try making laws, but feel free to use the organizer for ANYTHING!

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Contribution mindset is a way of thinking about the world as a place to which we can provide value.

There are few better examples of a contribution mindset than Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His relentless pursuit of value-creation shows us all the tremendous impact we can have on our world.

While the days feel much shorter before Thanksgiving thanks to the end of Daylight Saving Time, the holidays can give us enough distraction to get us through the beginning of winter.

It’s post-holiday when many of us feel the weight of the winter season settle in. In this article, doctors share some tried and true ways to help stay sane while waiting for warmer days.

14 Ways to Ease Seasonal Depression If you tend to get the “winter blues,” you may have seasonal affective disorder. Therapy, medication, and light boxes could bring relief.