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National Dissemination Center for
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The Ohio State University
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The Ohio State University
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For Immediate Release
Webcast Focuses on How the National Standards for Entrepreneurship Education Enhance Student Performance
The National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education (NDCCTE) will present a webcast, “Discovering the Entrepreneur in a Learner–Programs and Strategies,” on Wednesday, August 24, 2006, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. EDT. This interactive event, and previous webcasts, can be viewed on any computer with Internet access at www.nccte.org.
The presenters will describe a variety of entrepreneurship education programs at all levels of education and the application of the National Content Standards for Entrepreneurship Education to curriculum development. The webcast presenters will emphasize the importance of linkages with business and the value of building an educational pipeline K–16 + enabling young people to develop their workplace skills. The webcast will build on the information presented during the March 31st, “National Standards for Entrepreneurship Education Enhance Student Performance.” The earlier webcast provided an overview of how three states (Louisiana, Michigan and Ohio), are implementing the National Content Standards for Entrepreneurship Education and its content guidelines used to enhance student performance.
The presenters for the webcast are M. Catherine Ashmore, Executive Director, The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education, Columbus, OH; Donna Fricke, Marketplace for Kids, Mandan, ND; and Dianne Lauramoore, Academy for Entrepreneurship, Buchholz High School, Gainesville, FL.
Catherine Ashmore is a nationally recognized leader in entrepreneurship education. She has worked for over 25 years to encourage entrepreneurship instruction among career and technical educators, and educational leaders in primary and secondary schools, colleges, and adult education programs. Ashmore initiated The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education at The Ohio State University in 1982–later establishing it as a nonprofit corporation in 1997. She currently serves as its executive director. The consortium, comprised of more than 20 state departments of education and 60 organizations nationwide, provides leadership in K–12 and adult entrepreneurship education that supports the development of entrepreneurship in the United States.
Ashmore is the primary author of several entrepreneurship products–“PACE” (Program for Acquiring Competence in Entrepreneurship), “Beyond a Dream,” and “Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship.” She serves as a board member of the International Council for Small Business; is past-president of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE); and is a 1990 recipient of the Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, awarded by The Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge (PA). In 2006, she received the Max S. Wortman/USASBE Lifetime Achievement Award (for entrepreneurship).
Ashmore has a doctorate in education from the University of Michigan; a master’s degree in education from The Ohio State University with an emphasis on marketing education; and a bachelor’s degree in business from Miami University, Oxford (OH) with an emphasis on marketing.
Dianne Lauramoore is the founding director of the Academy of Entrepreneurship, Buchholz High School, Gainesville, FL. She has taught business education, cooperative education, and marketing education at Buchholz High School for 30 years. Lauramoore helped to write the Florida curriculum frameworks for entrepreneurship education, and served as a consultant in developing the national entrepreneurship standards.
Lauramoore serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education. She achieved National Board Certification in the area of career and technical education (Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship) in 2001. In 2004, she was chosen by the Freedoms Foundation in Valley Forge, PA, as one of 13 recipients from throughout the country to receive the Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education. She has been honored as the Junior Achievement (JA) Teacher of the Year for Central Florida and runner-up for JA National Teacher of the Year. She received the Alachua County Career & Technical Education Association’s W. Travis Loften Award for excellence in teaching. Lauramoore has a bachelor’s of science degree in education from the University of Florida.
Donna Fricke is the Southwest Regional Coordinator for North Dakota Tech Prep. As such, she is highly involved in the statewide program Marketplace for Kids (North Dakota). The program applies entrepreneurship standards, aligned with curriculum standards, toward building a pipeline of motivated students for secondary and postsecondary success. Previously, Fricke served as the School-To-Work (STW) special projects coordinator for the local STW partnership, the Bismarck–Mandan–Wing Consortium. She also served as the Passport facilitator of the Customer Service Program for Bismarck State College Corporate and Continuing Education. Prior to this, for Bismarck Public Schools, she taught entrepreneurship as a marketing education instructor, and was a DECA advisor and DECA state leadership trainer.
Fricke is a member of the Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education. She was a member of the Bismarck–Mandan Chamber of Commerce Business Education Partnership Committee; co-chaired the Region 7 and statewide leadership team for Marketplace for Kids; and helped form and served on the board for the local Junior Achievement (JA), and also trained new JA teachers and volunteers for several years.
She received a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of North Dakota, and an associate’s degree in management from Bismarck State College.
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The work reported herein was supported under the National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education (PR/Award No. VO51A990004) and/or under the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (PR/Award No. VO51A990006), as administered by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education. However, the contents do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the Office of Vocational and Adult Education or the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the federal government. The National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education and the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education are funded by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education.