Fostering entrepreneurial learning environments is key to championing youth entrepreneurship. As youth entrepreneurship instructors, we should serve as mentors, guides, facilitators and champions. Entrepreneurship is not black and white. It is not 2 + 2 = 4. Many times, even as the instructor, you won’t know the answer! Here are a few tips to frame…
To tackle global problems, we need to empower girls with the mindsets and skillset to allow them to grow into passionate innovators.
Teaching entrepreneurship to girls is a great way to help them learn to overcome challenges and think in new ways. Learn more with our tips!
Entrepreneurs know they can do anything and improve at anything because their brains grow as they learn new things and practice new skills!
Entrepreneurs have to be brave. They must try new things, talk to new people, take risks and solve problems that others are afraid to tackle. This is called courage!
Explore 14 innovative student grouping strategies designed to foster collaboration and creativity in the classroom. Whether you’re an educator looking to mix things up or searching for new ways to engage students, VentureLab’s guide offers adaptable methods for various learning environments. Discover how these techniques can be a part of creating the next generation of diverse innovators and changemakers.
Entrepreneurs see mistakes as ways to learn new things. They know that it’s okay to not succeed every time you try something. We call this embracing failure.
Entrepreneurs keep trying to solve problems even when they face tough
times. We call trying over and over again PERSISTENCE and we call using
determination GRIT.
Help students think like entrepreneurs with this fun, free, and practical pitching activity updated with remote learning in mind!
This week’s activities help show us how our brains can grow with practice and persistence!
This week’s activities inspire us to think about what motivates us and our strengths.
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. At VentureLab, we encourage children to banish any fear of failure, any lingering notions of their own “weaknesses,” any pessimistic preconceptions, and any subconscious limitations that hold them back. These…
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 failure is a tool for discovery? At VentureLab, we’ve spoken with students about how they perceive failure. In doing so, students learn that failure has a vocabulary all its own,…
Resilience and Perseverance 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, a tendency to maintain interest and stay on task in the face of obstacles. Grit means not enabling a pattern or habit of abandoning tasks just for the…
The Pitch Game requires little time to create a learning experience where your students will creatively generate ideas and confidently pitch to an audience.
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 from failure, encouraging their sense of creativity and allowing them the freedom to explore ideas from different angles. Here we look at an important tip that starts at the home:…
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