“I think I can. I think I can.” This is the mantra of the Little Blue Engine in the children’s classic, The Little Engine That Could. She comes across a broken down engine who was carrying a load of “very good things” to the boys and girls in the village on the other side of…
Learn how one young student took action using empathy and how you can get better at identifying and solving problems in your community!
Entrepreneurs think about people’s feelings and needs and keep those in mind when solving problems. We call this empathy.
In this activity, students will practice actively observing and empathizing while viewing an image. They will then come up with a problem, as well as a product or service that might help solve that problem. Then it will be their turn to try it on their own!
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. We need, too, to let them live in idealism—the kind that propels them to continue to want to change, to do good in the world. We too often associate entrepreneurship…
In this series of posts, I’ve been outlining seven strategies that I’ve uncovered—through my work, and through the insights explored by Frans Johannson in his book The Medici Effect that encourage the curious child to embark on a quest of discovery. In the last few posts, I looked at the need to reawaken a drive in children,…
At one time, even hinting at the existence of any innate differences between girls and boys could make one a target of chauvinism. It was safer for many people not to question the then-conventional wisdom: that the best way to raise children was “gender neutral,” to treat girls and boys exactly the same. If we…
In my last post, I shared that I approach my work at VentureLab from a “girl lens”—meaning I am always thinking about how can we best give girls (as well as boys) the tools and confidence they need to become tomorrow’s changemakers. Last week at the Inbound 2017 conference in Boston, I had the honor of hearing…
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