CEW Governor’s Institute 2009

1. CEW Governor’s Institute 2009 Project Overview Sue Fox

2. Academic Standards For Career Education and Work Pennsylvania Department of Education

3. THE ACADEMIC STANDARDS • Career Awareness and Preparation • 2. Career Acquisition (getting a job) • 3. Career Retention and Advancement • 4. Entrepreneurship

4. Thinking Like an Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is a process through which people pursue opportunity, use resources, and initiate change to create value.

5. Compare

6. our challenge…

7. BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS HHHS Adventure Club--Alaska

8. Entrepreneurs are NOT Sasha Van Steenburgh

9. they become

10. If you ask a group of executives

11. talented competitive skilled creative innovative and entrepreneurial

12. we need innovators who combine skill with an ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET

13. Entrepreneurial Mindset? • Problem Solvers: • Can anticipate and troubleshoot problems • Looks at problems as opportunities • Networks • Connects with others and builds strategic relationships. • Market Awareness • Can scan the marketplace and assess potential needs and gaps.

14. Entrepreneurial Mindset? • Low Support Needs • Provides for own needs with little support from others. • Rational Decision Maker • Has a basis for making effective decisions. • Good Judgment • Can pick the right people to help execute vision.

15. Our Project…

16. To develop a Business Plan for the implementation of the CEW Standards in your school district.

17. Why a Business Plan format? Forces us to put our ideas and plans in a format that is familiar to the “rest of the world”

18. Your school is your business

19. Why a Business Plan format? =

20. Integration of the CEW standards is the service you provide

21. Why a Business Plan format? CEW Standards + Career Development Interventions and Strategies = Services & Deliverables

22. How do we create a Business Plan? System: Climate Survey (Staff)

23. How do we create a Business Plan? Career Education & Work BP What is the need/market (opportunity) for CEW standards in your school district? System: Your Market and Partners

24. How do we create a Business Plan? Concept & Plan

25. What is expected?

26. 5 PowerPoint Slides The Project

27. Each of the 5 will • Identify your school district Identify one stakeholder • Students • Staff • Parents • Business/Community Partners • Postsecondary Partners

28. For each stakeholder Identify 1 or 2 new • interventions or • strategies

29. For each stakeholder What you need to implement How you will communicate

30. Slide Format Download at www.pacareerstandards.com/governors-institute.php Notebook: Section 3

31. Additional Entrepreneurial Resources in your notebook A Business Plan Workbook The Importance of a Business Plan And The Essential Questions a Business Plan Addresses

32. Importance of a Business Plan • A business plan makes you think about all aspects of your CEW implementation process.

33. Importance of a Business Plan 2. A business plan may help you secure funding for your ideas.

34. Importance of a Business Plan 3. A business plan helps you communicate your ideas to others. “the great communicator”

35. Importance of a Business Plan 4. A business plan can serve as a tool for managing your CEW program.

36. Essential Questions of the CEW BP What are your CEW standards gaps and what is your concept for CEW standards implementation?

37. Essential Questions of the CEW BP What is the need/market (opportunity) for CEW standards in your school district?

38. Essential Questions of the CEW BP What are the costs associated with your CEW implementation concept?

39. Essential Questions of the CEW BP How will this fit into your existing program?

40. Questions? Questions? Questions?