“Does my child’s current education live up to my child’s full potential?”
“Are the schools, teachers, and coaches giving my children everything they need to transform their talents into profitable careers and businesses?”
These have become all too common questions that almost always end with failing answers.
It was from this government and public failure that the Boffo Biz was created. This alternative learning program was built to teach teens how to monetize their talents.
“Are the schools, teachers, and coaches giving my children everything they need to transform their talents into profitable careers and businesses?”
These have become all too common questions that almost always end with failing answers.
It was from this government and public failure that the Boffo Biz was created. This alternative learning program was built to teach teens how to monetize their talents.
The Boffo Biz Entrepreneurial Academy embodies methods for thinking, acting, identifying opportunities, and approaching problems that enables people to manage change, adjust to new conditions, and take control of actualizing personal goals and aspirations.
Boffo Biz Entrepreneurial Academy is also a vehicle for developing a set of skills and being creative. Thinking, leadership, decision-making, social networking, to name a few—all enable individuals to distinguish themselves in a variety of traditional and nontraditional work and life paths.
To be entrepreneurial is to be inspired and to be capable of creating opportunities for oneself.
Boffo Biz Entrepreneurial Academy is also a vehicle for developing a set of skills and being creative. Thinking, leadership, decision-making, social networking, to name a few—all enable individuals to distinguish themselves in a variety of traditional and nontraditional work and life paths.
To be entrepreneurial is to be inspired and to be capable of creating opportunities for oneself.
- Develop the skills necessary to launch their own business or social movement (hands-on entrepreneurial experience!)
- Learn about real businesses - why they succeed or fail
- Hear from local entrepreneurs
- Launch their own business or social movement
- Become more confident in their ideas and their abilities
- Learn the essential life skills to be a productive individual
- Understand and appreciate our community and the value of Giving Back
Our Mission
To educate, train and empower the next generation of entrepreneurs so that they lead purposeful and meaningful lives.
The Boffo Biz program embodies methods to encourage entrepreneurial thinking and focus on the core attributes of real entrepreneurship. Based on research by Marilyn L Kourilsky, Vice President with the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Research at UCLA, and William B. Walstead, Director of the National Center for Research in Economic Education, “Education for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking must be broad-based, drawing on many content areas.” [1] This concept serves as the foundation upon which our curriculum program has been developed. Students are engaged in curricular approaches to education that involve both foundational knowledge and hands-on application of entrepreneurial concepts and experiences.
The knowledge and skills of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking are a benefit for any educational or career path, not just for those leading to the start-up and development of business ventures.
Entrepreneurial education is important, and even crucial, for several reasons.
We believe that learning best occurs over time, with related experiences building upon each other resulting in both breadth and depth of understanding. Research and investigations of the learning process done by John Dewey, Margaret Meade, John Holt, David Elkind, Harvey Daniels and others demonstrate that relevant, authentic experiences with real questions and problems, in a safe environment that encourages experimentation and requires useful outcomes, result in durable learning and enthusiasm for the process.
The knowledge and skills of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking are a benefit for any educational or career path, not just for those leading to the start-up and development of business ventures.
Entrepreneurial education is important, and even crucial, for several reasons.
- It lets students know that starting and operating a business – becoming an entrepreneur – is a career option that is open to them, just like being a teacher, plumber, etc. This is particularly important for youth who may not plan to go on to higher education.
- Teaching entrepreneurship to students in high school gives them a marketable skill while still in high school. This skill gives them many options. They can start their own business while in high school; they can start a business after high school; or, they can pursue a course of study in entrepreneurship or business in college if they desire to do so.
- Teaching students about entrepreneurship reinforces their basic skills in reading, math and language arts because as they learn about how to start a business (a topic students typically find exciting and interesting), all of the basic skills are required.
- Students increase their financial literacy skills level by learning how to start and operate a business.
- People who learn business concepts and entrepreneurship, and who do not go on to become entrepreneur, become better employees in the company (intrapreneurs) because they understand what it takes to make a company successful.
- Research (through Gallop Poll) has found that 69 percent of high school students are interested in starting their own business and 85 percent wish their schools would do more to teach them how to do it.
- Entrepreneurship education helps increase students’ motivation to learn; enhances their self-esteem and personal growth; helps develop their problem-solving skills; helps them learn to manage their finances, and, helps develop in them the sort of optimistic outlook and self-reliant attitude that will benefit them for their entire working lives.
We believe that learning best occurs over time, with related experiences building upon each other resulting in both breadth and depth of understanding. Research and investigations of the learning process done by John Dewey, Margaret Meade, John Holt, David Elkind, Harvey Daniels and others demonstrate that relevant, authentic experiences with real questions and problems, in a safe environment that encourages experimentation and requires useful outcomes, result in durable learning and enthusiasm for the process.
[1] Kourilski, M.L. & Walstead, W.B., (2000). The E Generation. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. Dubuque, IA.