Participants in NFTE course

CIE doctoral candidate Tim Cohen Mitchell taught an intersession course titled "Entrepreneurship for Educators" (E4E) in January. Using the youth-oriented "Fundamentals" curriculum provided by the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), participants created new lesson plans and participatory training and evaluation activities to be incorporated in future versions of NFTE curricula.

All 16 participants became NFTE Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers and will receive their certificates in March, along with 8 participants in the Young Entrepreneur Society (YES) program in nearby Orange who will have completed the NFTE "Fundamentals" curriculum. YES works with at-risk and low-income young people, ages 14-26. Orange is among the most economically depressed communities in Massachusetts. E4E participants worked with YES students in Orange and at CIE, forging alliances that should benefit both communities in the future.