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Junior Achievement Finance Park (Grade 9-12)
Junior Achievement Finance Park is an experiential learning curriculum for personal financial planning and career exploration. At the culmination of this teacher-led program, students visit Junior Achievement Finance Park at the Junior Achievement Discovery Center, to put into practice what they've learned by developing and committing to a personal budget. (Grades 7-9)
Education Level: Middle School, High School
Delivery: Classroom Based, Experiential Learning Center
JA Finance Park Advanced Overview
JA All about Cars 9-12
JA All About Cars® introduces students to the essential costs related to buying and operating a first car and offers tips on being a smart consumer when purchasing a vehicle. (Grades 9-12)
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
All About Cars Program Overview
JA Be Entrepreneurial (Grade 9-12)
JA Be Entrepreneurial® is a reimagined, modular learning experience that teaches students about the mindset and the skills needed for success by aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators who add value to any organization. In Junior Achievement Creative Problem Solving, students learn and apply design thinking, an innovative process for problem solving used by entrepreneurs (and intrapreneurs) to brainstorm customer-centric ideas. (Grades 9-12)
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
JA Business Communication 9-12
JA Business Communications® is a one-semester teacher-led course that equips high school students to focus on communication skills necessary to succeed in business. (Grades 9-12)
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
JA Career Success 9-12
JA Career Success® is an engaging and comprehensive learning experience that introduces high school students to the workplace as interns at a fictional company. (Grades 9-12)
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
JA Company Program (Grade 9-12)
JA Company Program® empowers high school students to fill a need or solve a problem in their community and teaches them practical skills required to conceptualize, capitalize, and manage their own business venture. (Grades 9-12)
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
JA Company Program Pop Up (6-12)
JA Company Program® Pop-Up teaches students how to plan, launch, and operate their own business venture within a structured, guided experience. Throughout the start-up process, students collaborate, make crucial business decisions, practice communication skills, and develop entrepreneurial knowledge and skills. (Grades 6-12)
Education Level: Middle School, High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
JA Economics 9-12
JA Economics® is a one-semester course that connects high school students to the economic principles that influence their daily lives as well as their futures. (Grades 11-12) This course has received California A-G approval from High School Articulation, Office of Undergraduate Admissions, University of California.
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
JA Entrepreneurial Mindset 9-12
JA Entrepreneurial Mindset® is a one-semester teacher-led course that introduces high school students to the basics of starting a business. (Grades 9-12) This course has received California A-G approval from High School Articulation, Office of Undergraduate Admissions, University of California.
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
JA Excellence through Ethics 6-12
Through JA Excellence through Ethics®, students will learn the importance of ethics and ethical decision-making and how ethical and unethical choices affect everyone in a community. (Grades 6-12) JA Excellence through Ethics is a 60- to 90-minute learning experience with additional optional activities.
Education Level: Middle School, High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
JA Financial Capability 1 9-12
JA Financial Capability® 1 is a one-semester teacher-led course in which high school students examine financial capabilities from a business perspective, focusing on banking, economics, business planning, and risk management. (Grades 9-12) This course has received California A-G approval from High School Articulation, Office of Undergraduate Admissions, University of California.
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
JA Financial Capability 1 Program Overview
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JA Financial Capability 2 9-12
JA Financial Capability® 2 is a one-semester teacher-led course in which high school students examine financial capabilities from a business perspective, focusing on employee benefits, ethics, business investment, and international business operations. (Grades 9-12) This course has received California A-G approval from High School Articulation, Office of Undergraduate Admissions, University of California.
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
JA Financial Literacy for Indiana, presented by Liberty Federal Credit Union, Semester Course 9-12
Starting with the Indiana students anticipated to graduate in 2028, it is mandated that individuals must successfully finish a personal financial responsibility course before being eligible for graduation. The legislation establishes specific content requirements for the course and dictates that public schools, charter schools, or state-accredited nonpublic schools must incorporate instruction on this course as a distinct subject.
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based, Experiential Learning Center
JA Financial Literacy Semester Course (Grade 9-12)
Junior Achievement Financial Literacy for Indiana is a one-semester teacher-led course that equips high school students with foundational personal finance skills and meets the financial literacy requirement for graduation. (Grades 9-12)
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
Financial Literacy Program Overview
JA Future Ready Leaders (Grade 9-12)
JA Future Ready Leaders™ provides leadership development opportunities to high school students who deliver JA learning experiences in elementary schools. (Grades 9-12)
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
JA It’s My Job (Soft Skills) (Grade 8-12)
JA It's My Job® (Soft Skills) will help students understand the value of professional communication and soft skills, making them more employable to future employers across multiple career clusters. (Grades 6-12) The program includes six 45-minute sessions, with additional extended learning activities and optional digital assets offered throughout.
Education Level: Middle School, High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
JA Personal Finance 9-12
JA Personal Finance® allows students to experience the interrelationship between today's financial decisions and future financial freedom. To achieve financial health and wellness, they learn about money-management strategies, including earning, employment and income, budgeting, savings, credit and debt, consumer protection, smart shopping, risk management, investing, credit card usage, debt management, and net worth. (Grades 9-12) The program consists of eight 45-minute sessions with three additional modular sessions.
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
JA Rapid Business planning 9-12
JA Be Entrepreneurial® is a reimagined, modular learning experience that teaches students about the mindset and the skills needed for success by aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators who add value to any organization. In JA Rapid Business Planning, students learn about the Lean Model Canvas, the strategic management template for developing business models. (Grades 9-12)
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
Ja Take Stock in Your future 9-12
Through JA Take Stock in Your Future®, students discover the benefits and challenges of investing in the stock market as part of a broader, long-term investment strategy and the risks and rewards of trading. (grades 9-12) The program includes five 45- minute sessions, with additional extended learning activities and optional digital assets offered throughout, including an optional online or site-based JA Stock Market Challenge competition.
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
JA Think like an Entrepreneur 9-12
JA Be Entrepreneurial® is a reimagined, modular learning experience that teaches students about the mindset and the skills needed for success by aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators who add value to any organization. In JA Think Like an Entrepreneur, students develop a mindset that enables opportunity identification, innovation, value creation, and problem solving. (Grades 9-12)
Education Level: High School
Delivery: Classroom Based
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