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We started teaching
entrepreneurship as part of the fifth-grade math and history curriculum over five years ago. As part of the program, several
entrepreneurs visited as guest speakers to share their ideas about starting a business, creating a brand, and developing a marketing strategy. The success of our
entrepreneur curriculum did not go unrecognized. We were thrilled when well-known entrepreneur
Leonard C. Green wrote about it in his book, entitled
The Entrepreneur’s Playbook.
This year, we changed the focus to social entrepreneurship as a way to inspire our students to empathize with an issue in need of attention, whether locally, nationally, or globally. Working closely with our colleague Natasha Chadha (
@MsChadha92), we retooled the project to center on identifying and exploring social issues. The main objectives included equipping students to take action for change, to seek meaningful ways to help others, and to develop leadership skills that effect real change.
We used a host of
materials to educate the students about social entrepreneurship, and we built a
website to compile everything in one place. They blogged about their ideas and experiences designed around lessons and activities. In addition to the digital resources, we relied on a wide selection of picture
books from the library that emphasize the power of personal initiative to bring about change and, importantly, to give back to others. The stories highlight that even the smallest initiative can bring about change.
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The students researched how they could help real people through microfinancing using the social entrepreneur website
Kiva.org. This eye-opening experience showed them that the simple things we take for granted are not necessarily common around the world. They learned that a small loan of just $25.00 could make a huge difference in the lives of many.
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Once these young social entrepreneurs realized that they could make a difference in raising awareness and funds to help actual people, they never looked back. They worked tirelessly to develop presentations for the Social Entrepreneur Expo to explain the plight of others, as well as to seek donations for their causes. They were empowered to be change-makers in every sense of the term. Most of all, they understood that kids can make a difference. They owned it.
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Creating opportunities for student agency and empowerment mirrors real-life. The students transferred their understanding of what it meant to be a social entrepreneur inside the classroom to help ease the needs of others outside the classroom. Now that's a true life lesson.
Very encouraging and crdative both for 5th graders and beyond.Way, way beyond,into the growing need and developing expectation for sustainable aging. These same principles of teaching social entrepreneurship to 5th graders can and should be adapted for use by/for pre and post-retirement seniors in regard to social entrepreneurs not just to "do-good" but as a more and more necessary supplement to their retirement and security income.The mission of senior centers across the country need to be changed from mere social engagement and lunch to sustainable aging and entrepreneurship.
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