Teamwork, Entrepreneurship, and Financial Literacy
My students need a hand mixer, baking sheets, cupcake liners, and cupcake decorating kits to start up our class business, "The Bulldog Bakery."
$507 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
Robert Moritz gives the following words of advice to young people: "Leadership comes from doing the right thing when no one is looking and from serving others, not just yourself, to maximize the team, not just you as an individual."
This is my first year to teach Family and Consumer Sciences (formerly known as home economics) to 9th-12th grade students in a rural Alabama, Title I school.
Many of our students live at or below the national poverty level, and over 60% of our students qualify for free or reduced price school meals. Despite these hardships, my students are hard-working, dedicated, and determined to succeed. I try to instill in my students that with these three qualities, anything is possible for them! My curriculum teaches students the skills they will need for a lifetime, with one of the most important being financial literacy. I asking for your help to fund a more innovative and creative way of teaching the concepts of budgeting, income, debt, saving, and investing! To learn these important skills along with leadership, teamwork, responsibility and entrepreneurship, my students want to plan for and then open and operate "The Bulldog Bakery" from our home economics kitchen lab.
My Project
Through the generosity of the DonorsChoose family, my students have a well equipped kitchen lab. In my classes, students have the opportunity to practice hands-on baking. While mastering baking skills, we will incorporate financial literacy and mathematics skills by opening our own class bakery. Using PwC's Earn Your Future Curriculum for 9th-12th grades, students will identify a business goal, develop a plan and timetable for opening, form a budget of fixed and variable expenses, explore saving for business investments and discuss how to avoid excessive debt. We will also focus on the importance of businesses giving back to the community and leadership skills. We will invite local small business owners into our classroom to offer insight into successful business practices. Our ongoing "Bulldog Bakery" will provide a fun approach to learning financial literacy skills and will provide our student body with tasty treats.
To make our idea a reality, we are asking for start up materials for our bakery such as a mixer, baking sheets, and cupcake decorating kits.
After a project was recently funded by a woman from New York, one of my students asked "why did she give to us when she didn't even know us?" I replied, "Others believe in you as much as I do!" Thanks to you, my students have materials they need to succeed and EXCEED! You are investing in a great group of teenagers who are so appreciative of your support.
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