Growth Mindset: Your Brain Can Change!
Your brain can change. It can grow. It can form new neural pathways. You can develop new abilities to do things you never thought possible.
December 20, 2019
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Free Activity: SCAMPER A Holiday Decoration
SCAMPER asks students to look at their favorite holiday decoration in a new way. The result: a prototype or model of a new, improved decoration.
December 11, 2019
Making Failure a Tool for Discovery
How do you speak to your children and students about failure? Do you create an environment and engage in a dialogue with your children where
December 2, 2019
Free Resource: This Is Not…
This activity is an improvisation game where students take an ordinary object and transform it into ANYTHING they can think of, either real or imaginary.
November 19, 2019
The Importance of Teaching Grit
Grit is an essential element of the entrepreneurial mindset. It has two parts. One is resilience, a positive response to failure or adversity. The other is perseverance,
November 18, 2019
Sing along to the Entrepreneur Song!
It’s never too early to start giving kids the gift of language and the vocabulary they need to think about themselves and the world around them! VentureLab created the Entrepreneur Song as a fun and meaningful way to give students access to the vocabulary around entrepreneurial learning and thinking.
March 12, 2019
Free Activity: Pitch Game
We often hear from teachers that they would love to incorporate entrepreneurial learning into their classes but have limited time. We wanted to give you a quick, easy way to introduce the entrepreneurial process and the associated mindsets and skills.
October 11, 2018
Start Them Young
In these recent posts in which I’ve offered tips on raising entrepreneurial girls, I’ve suggested ways to foster their curiosity, encourage girls to remain idealistic
April 17, 2018
Get Dad Involved
In my last few blog posts, I’ve been presenting a series of tips for raising entrepreneurial girls. These tips include helping girls embrace and learn
April 13, 2018
Help Them “Scamper” To Creativity
In these last few posts, I’ve been providing a series of tips for raising entrepreneurial girls. So far, these have included letting them embrace failure,
April 10, 2018
Channel Their Idealism
I’ve been outlining tips for raising entrepreneurial girls, talking about letting them unleash their curiosity, not minding getting dirty, and embracing and learning from failure.
April 6, 2018
Let Them Appreciate Failure
In this series of blog posts, I’m providing tips on raising entrepreneurial girls. Such tips include letting girls develop their curiosity and also to get
April 3, 2018
Let Them Get Messy!
Whenever women in science or technology reminisce about girlhood, they remember the joy of getting dirty. Many of us who’ve grown up to be scientists
March 30, 2018
Make Play Time Curiosity Time
In this series of blogs, I am offering tips on raising entrepreneurial girls. When you raise girls to think like entrepreneurs, they go on to
March 27, 2018
Tips For Raising Entrepreneurial Girls
One of the most far-reaching changes we can make for our children and their future is to establish entrepreneurial life skills as a core competence
March 23, 2018
Integrating Entrepreneurship into STEAM Education.
Explore how VentureLab is leading the charge in educational transformation by expanding STEM into STEAM with an added focus on the arts and entrepreneurship, fostering creativity and inclusivity in learning.
March 20, 2018