Free Activity: Pitch Game
The Pitch Game requires little time to create a learning experience where your students will creatively generate ideas and confidently pitch to an audience.
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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 (and to use that idealism to push themselves creatively), and to embrace and learn from failure. Here I look at an important tip for raising an entrepreneurial girl: start quite…
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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 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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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, helping them unleash their creativity, harvesting their idealism and letting them get messy as they get creative and discover what makes things tick. This next tip for raising entrepreneurial girls…
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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. 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…
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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 messy (creativity is messy, after all). Here, I look at another important tip for raising an entrepreneurial girl: letting her appreciate and learn from failure. It starts at the home….
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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 and engineers recall spending more time in jeans than in dresses. And a lot of us loved playing with mud. My sisters and I had the great advantage of a…
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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 become creators and entrepreneurs. In addition, these tips will lead to children learning to increase their mental agility and to develop adaptive thinking. Here I’m looking at the first tip…
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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.
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The Lessons Of A Lemonade Stand
The Story of National Lemonade Day Little girls are naturally imaginative and industrious. In class or at home, learning that they can make their ideas a reality sparks their motivation. With a bit of encouragement, they will find ways to be productive, leading to a lifetime foundation of self direction and self confidence. After entrepreneur…
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Girls Can Become Entrepreneurs Before They Even Start School
Most 5-year-olds have not yet been to school, and don’t yet understand what it is to make a failing grade. What better time to introduce them to the entrepreneurial skill of learning from successive failures? Testing, trying, failing, rethinking, adjusting, failing again, wisely—this cycle is designed into Entrepreneurship 101 for 5- to 7-year-olds. We ensure…
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Let Children Grow By Following Their Interests
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to paint like a child,” Pablo Picasso once said. Too often, children lose the confidence to follow their interests because of an educational system that is test-obsessed and focused on correct answers instead of creative problem-solving. The loss can be gradual, subtle and…
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Encourage Girls to Identify Problems and Find Soultions
For young girls, every day is a new adventure of first-time experiences, discovering boundaries along the way. The entrepreneurial twist is to encourage girls to identify their problems and think about solutions to frustrations, focusing and improving on their ideas, with just enough guidance and assistance from grown-ups. When I teach 5-year-olds, I’m continually struck…
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Allowing Girls The Freedom to Create
There aren’t many experiences that take place in a conventional school in which there are no grades, no penalties for not following rules, no possibility of a humiliating failure, no multiple choice test nor essay, no consequence for disruption, no avoidance of “coloring outside the lines,” no swipe at GPAs, no carrots or sticks, no…
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A Change in Perspective Can Develop Children’s Curiosity
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,…
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Encourage Girls To Learn Differently
In my last post, I began to outline the seven strategies that play out in entrepreneurial class—strategies that encourage the curious child to embark on a quest of discovery. I spoke about the need to reawaken a drive in children. Here, I look at the second strategy: 2. Learn Differently Diverse teams who have been…
