Stephen Carter shares how entrepreneurial education is transforming Christian schools by developing critical skills and purpose-driven mindsets in students. What started as a simple coffee cart has grown into a nationwide movement helping students discover their unique calling through entrepreneurial thinking and real-world application.
• Entrepreneurship defined as “taking a risk to create something new for the good of others”
• Most in-demand skills from employers: proactive problem-solving, collaboration, communication
• Parents can foster entrepreneurial mindset by praising effort over talent
• Focus on seeing work as kingdom-building, restoring broken bonds
• Entrepreneurial mindset shifts students from consumption to creation
• Start small with minimum viable products and improve as you go
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Stephen Carter
In the spring of 2015, the brand new coffee-cart program at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy (CHCA) was in need of a leader, and despite all of my other commitments (I was currently a high school English teacher at the school), this caught my eye and I saw the potential impact that it could make on the students.
So I dove in, learning everything I could about teaching students to think like entrepreneurs. The real learning, however, came from the students and their hands-on experience.
Within a few years, the coffee cart had become a permanent coffee bar and we had added a thriving greenhouse business along with the start of an engaging curriculum.
New student-run businesses began to take root and we launched a teaching kitchen: the program was now running at full steam with 6 full time faculty members, 14 elective courses, and a certificate track.
In 2022, I started implementing the same entrepreneurship program that I created at CHCA in other private schools – and it worked! That proved that this was replicable.
In 2023, I published my second book, Teaching the Entrepreneurial Mindset, which details the ten-year journey of creating a meaningful entrepreneurship program at a K-12 school.
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