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GV wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm a social worker in Toronto, and the agency I work for has offices in
> several high schools here.  I'm looking for any advice, examples,
> experience, and/or resources on for-profit businesses run by high school
> students.
>

Please visit our Start-Up Education homepage at
http://way.opens.org/start-up . We are a non-profit that has been teaching
entrepreneurship in schools, camps, community organizations and recreation
centers for the last 5 years. Most of our classes have run businesses such
as concession stands, school stores, lawn services, hair care products, flea
market booths, etc.

We offer a course for teachers via correspondance (3 semester-hour credits,
graduate) to train teachers to offer classes like ours to teach career
skills through entrepreneurship; see the course syllabus and details on
registration at http://way.opens.org/teachercourse .

We also sell a curriculum package, Own the Place! which includes an 80+ page
teachers' manual plus masters so that you can reproduce as many student
workbooks (52 pages of exercises), tests, and business plan outlines as you
need within your site. See http://way.opens.org/owntheplace

Hope this helps! I'll be glad to answer questions about our program,
materials, or course.

Ellen


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Ellen Cooney  (ekcooney@way.opens.org)
Start-Up Education, P.O.Box 7072, Pueblo West, Colorado, 81007 USA
Start-Up Education home page: http://way.opens.org/start-up
Our new on-line teachers' manual: http://way.opens.org/owntheplace
Our latest UPSTARTS! newsletter: http://way.opens.org/newsletter