Why Ford PAS

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Spotlight on Ford PAS Themes Business and
Entrepreneurship

• Agenda
• Introduction of business theme in Ford PAS
• Sample activity Module 7 Spinning Records
• Student presentations
• Panel discussion Highlights and challenges of
  teaching business and entrepreneurship in Ford
  PAS

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Why Business and Entrepreneurship?

• Wide interest in and popularity of this theme in
  Ford PAS
• Improves students understanding of career
  opportunities in business and related fields
• Teaching entrepreneurship empowers young people
  to take ownership of their learning and their
  careers

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Business Concepts and Skills Taught Throughout
Ford PAS

• Business financing
• Market research and planning
• Data-based decision-making
• Managing resources efficiently (lean thinking)
• Managing quality (Six sigma)
• Business ethics
• Corporate citizenship
• International business
• Entrepreneurship

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Modules That Highlight Business and
Entrepreneurship

• Module 1 From Concept to Consumer
• Module 2 Media and Messages
• Module 5 Closing the Environmental Loop
• Module 6 Planning for Efficiency
• Module 7 Planning for Business Success
• Module 8 Ensuring Quality
• Module 9 From Data to Knowledge
• Module 14 Markets Without Borders
• Module 15 Global Citizens

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Module 7 Content Focus

• Entrepreneurship
• Data-based decision-making
• Business financing
• Market research and planning

Module 7 Planning for Business Success
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Ongoing Module 7 Projects

Students help a fictional band make financial
and marketing decisions. Students develop a
financial and marketing plan for their own
business idea.
Module 7 Planning for Business Success
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Academic Content

• Formulate and answer questions with data
• Use statistical methods to analyze data
• Understand the effect of market forces on
  business performance
• Understand how different components of a system
  interact

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Skills

• Develop a financial plan
• Use spreadsheets to conduct cost
• analyses
• Design surveys
• Analyze survey results
• Give and receive feedback
• Present a business plan to potential
• investors

Module 7 Planning for Business Success
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Module 7 Activity Spinning Records

• NoNaymz just finished recording its latest CD
  and has signed a contract for the duplication
  company Spinning Records to produce 10,000 copies
  of the CD. The company quoted NoNaymz a price of
  1.50 for each CD. It will take Spinning Records
  two days to complete the duplication of the
  10,000 CDs.
• Can this be a profitable venture for Spinning
  Records?

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Business and EntrepreneurshipStudent
Presentations

• Ford PAS Students and Alumni
• Antwon Crutcher, John Overton High School,
  Nashville, TN
• Mohamed Mroue, Michael Berry Career Center,
  Dearborn, MI
• Brittany Thompson-Johnson, University of
  Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Amy Weaver, Michael Berry Career Center,
  Dearborn, MI

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Business and Entrepreneurship Panel Discussion

• Panelists
• Janeece Docal, Bell Multicultural High School,
  Washington, DC
• Donna Gilley, John Overton High School,
  Nashville, TN
• Noelia Guajardo, PSJA school district,
  Pharr-San-Juan, TX
• Carol Henley, Howard University, Washington, D.C.