Crocker Farm School Students to Become Entrepreneurs!
Posted by Greg Keochakian
on Sep 15, 2011
[Amherst, MA] Starting in mid-October students in the fourth through sixth grade at Crocker Farm School will have the opportunity to take part in Junior Achievement’s It’s My Business program. The program emphasizes entrepreneurship while providing a strong focus on social studies, reading, and writing skills. Students are encouraged to use critical thinking to learn entrepreneurial skills that support positive attitudes as they explore and enhance their career aspirations. Students will experience advertising, business planning, civic responsibility, customer service, entrepreneurship and marketing.
Donna Kelley, a professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College and a parent at Crocker Farm School will be the lead JA Volunteer teacher.
Irvin Rhodes, Chair of the Amherst School Committee and President of the Amherst Rotary Club, is the driving force behind bringing Junior Achievement programs to the Amherst Schools. This program is being sponsored by the Amherst Rotary Club which is supporting this program through its Good Works fund
Michael Morris, Principal of Crocker Farm School attended a JA presentation in the spring and contacted Kelley about volunteering to present a JA program. .
Junior Achievement was founded in Western Massachusetts in 1919 and is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating young people about business, economics and free enterprise. Through a dedicated volunteer network, JA provides in-school and after-school programs for students in grades K-12. JA offers educational programs that focus on seven key content areas: business, citizenship, economics, entrepreneurship, ethics/character, financial literacy, and career development. During the last school year more than 400 JA volunteers from the community, business, local colleges and high schools presented 464 JA programs and reached over 10,000 students. Jennifer Connolly, President of Junior Achievement of Western Massachusetts notes, ”JA is very excited and to work with the Amherst Rotary and the Yankee Candle Company, a longtime JA supporter, to expand programming in Amherst schools.”
To learn more about Junior Achievement and how you can support JA in Amherst, visit the JAWM web site at www.jawm.org or email jconnolly@jawm.org.
Donna Kelley, a professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College and a parent at Crocker Farm School will be the lead JA Volunteer teacher.
Irvin Rhodes, Chair of the Amherst School Committee and President of the Amherst Rotary Club, is the driving force behind bringing Junior Achievement programs to the Amherst Schools. This program is being sponsored by the Amherst Rotary Club which is supporting this program through its Good Works fund
Michael Morris, Principal of Crocker Farm School attended a JA presentation in the spring and contacted Kelley about volunteering to present a JA program. .
Junior Achievement was founded in Western Massachusetts in 1919 and is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating young people about business, economics and free enterprise. Through a dedicated volunteer network, JA provides in-school and after-school programs for students in grades K-12. JA offers educational programs that focus on seven key content areas: business, citizenship, economics, entrepreneurship, ethics/character, financial literacy, and career development. During the last school year more than 400 JA volunteers from the community, business, local colleges and high schools presented 464 JA programs and reached over 10,000 students. Jennifer Connolly, President of Junior Achievement of Western Massachusetts notes, ”JA is very excited and to work with the Amherst Rotary and the Yankee Candle Company, a longtime JA supporter, to expand programming in Amherst schools.”
To learn more about Junior Achievement and how you can support JA in Amherst, visit the JAWM web site at www.jawm.org or email jconnolly@jawm.org.