ELI Founder Gary Schoeniger on Thee Morris Code

Gary joined co-hosts Dr. Juanita Morris & Dr. Jeremy Morris on Thee Morris Code to talk about people who are considered underdogs finding a way to win, how his struggles and failures helped set up his entrepreneurial success, challenging the status quo, shifting one’s mindset, and the three dimensions of human needs.

How A Vision Becomes Reality With The Garfield Twins

Meet Ashley and Abby Garfield, identical twins and young entrepreneurs. Starting with just a vacuum cleaner, a broom, a bucket, and a mop, they launched a cleaning business in high school. As they pursued business courses at a local community college, their determination grew, and they decided to fully commit. Now, at the age of 21, they are well on their way to turning their vision into reality. This story gives us a glimpse into the early stages of an entrepreneurial journey and shows the power of vision combined with the determination to make it happen.

Online Entrepreneurial Mindset Facilitator Training

Our Entrepreneurial Mindset Facilitator Training inspires participants to think differently about their own mindset while turning their classrooms and organizations into spaces where problems are solved and innovation is fostered. The training is an engaging mix of live presentations, open discussions, video case studies, small group activities, coaching and experiential exercises. Live sessions will run for two hours on Mondays throughout the month of October.

Five Ways an Entrepreneurial Mindset Addresses Interrupted Learning

Students who disengage from school tend to feel discouraged about their futures. They begin to lack hope. And without hope, they disengage further. This spiral impacts their academic performance, their learning, and their sense of self-direction.

At The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative, we’ve been concerned about this pattern for years—it’s one of the reasons that we’re so passionate about offering the Ice House Entrepreneurship Program to middle, high school, and college students. We believe that having an entrepreneurial mindset can help students stay engaged in learning as they transition into adulthood.

The COVID-19 pandemic as well as AI platforms like ChatGPT have taken the challenge of student engagement to a new level. While distance learning worked for some, many others lost ground in their education. 

So how can an entrepreneurial mindset help these students? Here are five ways that infusing entrepreneurship into the core of our systems of education can strengthen engagement.