Dive Brief:
- Forbes contributor Steve Blank believes K-12 entrepreneurship teaching needs to be shaken up, however, he also believes a solution may have already been found in his "Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps” seminar.
- One of Blank's big concerns about the old way of teaching entrepreneurship in K-12 is that it focused too much on small businesses, like lemonade stands, instead of teaching skills to create scalable startups.
- In 2013, Blank documented educators from Cleveland's Hawken School who attended the seminar and brought new skills back to their classrooms, noting that they were "on fire with a vision of building a completely different sort of entrepreneurship course in their school."
Dive Insight:
According to Blank, the Lean LaunchPad program helped the Ohio teachers create successful entrepreneurship programs for middle and high school students — programs that looked at the bigger prospects of entrepreneurship. The teachers from Hawken are essentially entrepreneurs themselves, having created their own entrepreneur site to teach other schools how to create similar programs.