Improve Student Success and Institutional Impact with an Entrepreneurial Mindset

Lesson Plan and Professional Development for K-12 Professionals from The Youth Impact Lab

Youth Impact Lab Sample Lesson PlanIn a world of constant change, we need to build and nurture an ability to think like entrepreneurs. This way of thinking goes far beyond venture creation—and beyond the classroom. It allows us to act in the face of uncertainty, developing opportunities as we go. Approaching problems in an entrepreneurial way is empowering for you and your students, and has countless social-emotional and academic benefits. You can also apply this method to increasing the entrepreneurship ecosystem in your institution and wider community.

EPIC: Entrepreneurship Program for Innovators and Changemakers

The EPIC curriculum allows students to understand business concepts like opportunity identification, idea generation, prototyping, and marketing, while concurrently introducing them to social entrepreneurship and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. They apply this learning to solve a problem in their local community—creating social and economic value.

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Gerardo Arias Fernandez
EPIC is a great way to provide organization to our students' ideas. It allows them to experiment and work in teams to build a proposal to create lasting social and economic impact in their preferred areas.
Gerardo Arias Fernandez
High School Teacher
Lincoln School in Costa Rica

Earn a Certificate in Youth Entrepreneurship Education from Babson

The Babson Academy Youth Impact Lab partners with educators, schools, communities, educational systems, nonprofit organizations, and other critical stakeholders. We teach you how to effectively deliver our youth entrepreneurial changemaker program, EPIC. You’ll experience and complete the certificate program in the same manner that your students will, learning by doing. We offer online and hybrid options.

Educator Outcomes for the Certificate

Educators who participate in the certificate program experience statistically significant increases in:

  • Entrepreneurial self-efficacy
  • Entrepreneurial identity
  • Teacher self-efficacy in the entrepreneurship domain
  • General self-efficacy