The Courage to Transform

How Entrepreneurship Programs Transform School Culture

Stephen Carter
November 25, 2024

Paul doesn’t beat around the bush in Romans 12:2 - he calls it out as it is: “Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Pure and simple - we are hardwired to conform but we need to overcome our programming and experience transformation which comes through the renewal of the mind.

And this transformation impacts everyone and everything around us.

A transformed teacher will transform a program, and a transformed program will transform the lives of students, and transformed students will transform their families, and transformed families will transform the entire school culture.

But the most important part of the verse comes in the final six words: “by the renewing of your mind.” It is through our mindset and the ongoing process of renewal that we experience true transformation.

This is at the core of what we call the "entrepreneurial mindset” - a proven process to teach transformation in real time through hands-on learning in a K-12 school. And the reason it works is because it is based on a core Biblical principle: when you renew your mind, transformation occurs.

When we truly teach growth mindset and the development of grit alongside a clear redefinition of failure in order to encourage opportunity seeking, we are giving students a framework to experience transformation in their lives. And this will inevitably impact our school culture.

The question is, are we ready for our school culture to experience this kind of transformation? This won’t be all sunshine and rainbows - this will be about stretching ourselves and dreaming bigger than we have ever dreamed before. It will be about empowering our students to not just survive the future but to thrive and to flourish.

This is about impact.

Are you ready? The time to get started is now…

This student took transformation to a new level and used it as the name for his business.

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Imagine your culture infused with growth mindset, grit, redefining failure, and opportunity seeking. Imagine your team acting and thinking like entrepreneurs.

Stephen Carter