There’s nothing like being entrusted with other people’s money to know real-world responsibility first hand. At Chateauguay Valley Regional High School, a dozen Cycle Two students are gaining exactly that experience. In partnership with Desjardins’ Caisse du Haut-St-Laurent, they are operating an in-school student “caisse.”
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Making a “Caisse” for Entrepreneurship
Tags: CD, EN Course, Financial Literacy, Life Skills, NFSB, OSentreprendre, Social Sciences
·“Entrepreneurial Adventure” to be Tested in Québec
The Western Québec and English Montréal School Boards will soon be piloting a program developed by The Learning Partnership to support classes engaged in entrepreneurial projects.
Tags: CD, EMSB, EN Course, Entrepreneurship, IP, MST, PD, WQSB
·Discover this Great Career-awareness Resource
The POP Index may have been created by MELS to support the career exploration process of students in the Personal Orientation Project (POP), Exploration of Vocational Training and Entrepreneurship courses. But any high school student, teacher or guidance counsellor would find it useful.
Priming Young Minds to Create Their Own Future
Here in St. Paul’s River, a mind-shift is taking place and it involves all of us—students, teachers, professionals, parents and community partners. (more…)
Tags: CD, Community Engagement, EN Course, Explo, Littoral, POP, Social Sciences
·Tourists Delighted by Student Ambassadors
Last fall we reported that Gaspé Polyvalente’s Entrepreneurship students had completed 30 hours of training to become community ambassadors to visiting cruise ship passengers. This spring those same students are back at it, buoyed by the positive feedback they received from tourists and cruise companies alike. Notes principal Daniel Gallagher: “A retired school administrator from […]