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Teaching skills to help students develop their crazy ideas, get hired or retain a job.
Learn MoreJunior Achievement is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students in grades K-12 about entrepreneurship, work readiness and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs.
Our programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of contributing to their communities.
JA’s unique approach allows volunteers from the community to deliver our curriculum while sharing their experiences with students. Embodying the heart of JA, our classroom volunteers transform the key concepts of our lessons into a message that inspires and empowers students to believe in themselves, showing them they can make a difference in the world.
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JA in a Day - 5 lessons taught by a volunteer in 1 day.
Example timing would be 8:00 am - 1:00 pm.
JA Traditional - 5 lessons taught by a volunteer - schedule is determined between the volunteer & the educator.
With the help of local businesses and entrepreneurs, local high schools put together comprehensive business and marketing plans for products and services of their own creation. This pitch event is the culmination of three months of preparation that teaches high students the ins and outs of entrepreneurship. The students compete for local and state-level scholarships. The local winners from each market across Louisiana then compete for additional scholarships at the state competition. Additionally, the local and state winners earn funds for the school they represent.
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Join us as a Leading Lady Ambassador and meet other women inspired to mentor young girls to build professional and financial success. This program is a way to introduce more women to Junior Achievement and to inspire and support JA girls in special mentoring initiatives. We want to build a circle of support for young ladies, helping them prepare for life after high school. The goal is to build their confidence and skills for career, business, and financial empowerment. Please click here to learn more about Leading Ladies & sponsorship opportunities.
JA Finance Park is an economics education program that introduces personal finance planning and career exploration. It is designed to be taught to middle school and high school students by the classroom teacher and volunteer. After completing the in-class curriculum, the students visit the JA Finance Park Virtual simulation to put into practice what they’ve learned about economic options and the principles of budgeting.
While at Finance Park, students become “adults for a day” and are assigned fictional jobs, incomes, families, and expenses. Assisted by their teachers and a staff of trained volunteers, students have the opportunity to actually develop and commit to a personal budget.
Students are then expected to develop and stick to appropriate budgets, while making real-life decisions about housing, transportation, food, furnishing, savings, investments, utilities, insurance, and charitable contributions – the decisions they will ultimately make upon entering adulthood.
Volunteers will teach at least 3 classes of the Finance Park curriculum.
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Year Round
JA in a Day - 5 lessons taught by a volunteer in 1 day.
Example timing would be 8:00 am - 1:00 pm.
JA Traditional - 5 lessons taught by a volunteer - schedule is determined between the volunteer & the educator.
Example timing would be 1 hour a week for 5 weeks or 1 hour a day for a week.
Imagine sharing your work experience and the JA program with a classroom full of excited elementary students! Volunteers share their real world experiences and encourage students to own their futures.
The students will have completed all five JA lessons and will have earned their JA certificate. Classes are conducted from Kindergarten through 5th grade curriculum, training and support are provided by Junior Achievement.
Click here to sign up for the school of your choice or to receive more information on our programs.