Free Entrepreneurship Education Resources

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Using A Growth Mindset To Foster Entrepreneurial Learning

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai

Posted in Articles

An entrepreneurial mindset is an accelerated growth mindset. In acquiring such a mindset, not only do girls learn that they can make themselves smarter, they learn that they have the potential to think of new ideas that have practical applications. That might be fancy language for a 5-year-old so it would be better expressed for…

Closing The Confidence Gap With a Growth Mindset

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai

Posted in Articles

A growth mindset is a winning mindset. There is no downside to a girl believing that she has the capacity to grow her intelligence and to acquire new skills. And it’s important to know that neuroscience is on her side. Everything we are learning about plasticity of the brain supports the hope that people can…

Allowing Girls to Tap Into Their Potential

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai

Posted in Articles

When we encourage girls to change their mindset, rather than simply to get good grades, we open up a world of possibilities for them. In my last post, we looked at the importance of encouraging girls in math by understanding the differences in their brains and those of boys. I began to describe a study…

Girls, STEAM, & Growth Mindset

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai

Posted in Articles

Full STEAM ahead: What happens to the girls who could go on to study and work in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM), but who actually don’t? They miss incredible opportunities that could change their lives. This is often less a matter of choice, but more about conditioning. As early as…

Home School Resources: Teaching A Youth Entrepreneurship Curriculum

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai

Posted in Articles

Many parents are finding that traditional public school options are inadequate for their children’s education. Some opt to take their child’s schooling into their own hands, and offer a home school program instead. While this may require more work for both the parent and child, it also allows for an unparalleled amount of personalization and…

Overcoming Fear of Failure for a Chance at Success

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai

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Our mindset and the way in which we think affects how we think. The celebrated psychologist Carol Dweck has written about mindset in her research surrounding motivation, personality and development. Her writings are included in her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Before Dweck’s research, which shows how important it is to emphasize mindset, such…

What Does Neuroscience Tell Us About Rewiring The Brain?

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai

Posted in Articles

Our potential needs to be unleashed. And in children, that comes from encouragement as well as challenges. Girls need to be pushed and told that they can grow in order to see their potentail and this needs to be done when they’re young. By the time a girl is 7 years old, her brain has…

Without A Growth Mindset, Girls Limit Themselves

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai

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Many girls who are straight-A students are often discouraged from subjects where they achieve less than an A. As a result, these gifted girls assume that the course content is not for them, so they choose not to push themselves to pursue these subjects further. Typically these girls are praised and rewarded for their near-perfect…

Growing Neural Pathways- Brain Development in Girls

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai

Posted in Articles

The more you challenge your brain, the better off you are. Our brains want to be challenged, and we need to instill this sense of urging ourselves forward, this need to experience something new, in our daughters. Our brains are filled with neural pathways, which are connections made of bundles of neurons that receive and…

Lighting the Spark: Retraining Young Girls to Excel

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai

Posted in Articles

Redefining failure and encouraging a growth mindset is crucial in shaping our daughters’ path to success. By teaching girls that their brains can change, grow, and embrace challenges, we cultivate their confidence, persistence, and resilience. VentureLab aims to empower girls through entrepreneurial education, sparking their potential and equipping them to live impactful lives.

Teaching a Confidence Mindset So Girls Learn From Failure

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai

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Our motivation to teach girls an entrepreneurial mindset and can-do skills is not only about gender equity, but our nation’s future. Our global leadership depends to a great extent on the ability of our entrepreneurs to create companies and jobs out of innovations in technology. That is the genius of our economy, but also its vulnerability. We cannot become complacent. We need new, young, courageous, growth-minded entrepreneurs—men and women—to start and build the businesses of the future.

Change is a Sign of Growth

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai

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At VentureLab, we strive to empower girls and kids of all backgrounds and circumstances (and the adults that teach, and love them) to think entrepreneurially and reimagine their own possibilities. Just as we are committed to sharing our knowledge, we are also committed to continuously innovating. That’s why I’m excited to share what VentureLab has accomplished…