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This presentation gives an introductory overview of Founders4Schools
Connecting teachers with leaders of growing, successful businesses to inspire young students
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Contents
1. About Founders4Schools
2. Partner Dashboard
3. Achievements in 2014
4. Contact
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About Founders4Schools
Founders4Schools is a FREE nation-wide service that empowers teachers to connect with leaders of successful, growing businesses to visit their schools and inspire their students.
Doing so helps ensure that children are prepared for the jobs and aware of the sectors that will be relevant when they leave education.
In turn this will help ensure the UK’s future growth in the global economy.
“I had emails from students giving me their thanks for the event. In lesson and as I walked through the school, pupils and teachers have said how the event was one of the best things they have ever seen. Our Assistant Head concurred that it was the best talk she had seen at the school.”
Bobby Ahmadzadeh, Teacher, Brentford School for Girls
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● Real-life role models who demonstrate the relevance of what is taught in classroom with careers
● Contact with real business leaders from your local community
● The opportunity to consider business as a viable career choice (particularly in STEAM areas)
● Hearing what jobs are being created today from the creators of the jobs themselves!
“I will look into my future a lot differently. I think it is very much about what jobs you can get and what university to go to but now I think seeing such amazing entrepreneurs with such incredible stories about what they have done, I will
definitely look at my future in a very different way.”Brent - a student at JFS secondary school
Benefits for Students 8+
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Click to watch a short youtube clip explaining Founders4schools to teachers
Thank you to agency ‘Mother’ for donating resources to create this illustration for us
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1. Enter Location
Less than 5 minutes to find and invite leaders into the classroom
in 4 easy steps
Empowering Teachers
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2. choose your preferred foundersbased on their expertise
Less than 5 minutes to find and invite leaders into the classroom
in 4 easy steps
Empowering Teachers
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3. add your event’s details
Less than 5 minutes to find and invite leaders into the classroom
in 4 easy steps
Empowering Teachers
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4. confirm your selections
Less than 5 minutes to find and invite leaders into the classroom
in 4 easy steps
Empowering Teachers
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● We help them find who to invite: Our database covers the whole UK and 80% of founders. We filter out unsuccessful businesses and un-inspirational speakers.
● We provide materials to help them prepare their students for the ‘event’: Enables students to research the careers and businesses of the speakers before the event
● We help them coordinate / communicate with the speakers: Think “Eventbrite meets LinkedIn”
● We provide tools to help them assess impact after the event.
● We provide opportunities for their students to experiment with digital tools and share what they have created with others.
Principal Tricia Kelleher of the Stephen Perse Foundation with speakers:Megan Smith, (Previously) Vice President, Google [x] Alice Rathjen, Founder, CEO DNA GuideWendy Tan White, CEO MoonfruitMary Lou Jepsen, Head of the Display Division at Google [x]
Benefits for Teachers
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Subject filtering allows teachers to select speakers based on subjects they studied at university to demonstrate to students how the subjects they are studying are relevant.
Bringing Subjects to life
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8,600+ volunteersEvents in every corner of the UK
Founder Spread
Events Spread
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❖ A high impact F4S format event typically lasts 1 hour
❖ 3 - 4 founders talk about their journey and answer students’ questions
Event Format
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Click to watch a short youtube clip from an event with teachers’ and students’
immediate reactions.
“I think it is important for students to meet real entrepreneurs because I think it motivates them”
Lisa Thefault, Business Links Co-ordinator, Ursuline High School
Impact
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Brentford School for girls [click title to see the event’s page]
● Bobby Ahmadzadeh, Subject Leader of Economics at Brentford School for Girls first heard of Founders4Schools from a friend.
● Set the event up online and had 5 speakers (3 female | 2 male) ● Impact:
○ 104% rise in students that chose economics. This is an unprecedented growth for any subject area at Key Stage 5 according to Bobby.
○ Maitri, one of the students attending the event approached F4S for an internship. She worked on an idea for an app and helped with database coding. The F4S event and her work experience led her to change her university subject of study from History to Computer Science.
○ The positive feedback extends to teachers - “we were all really inspired that people like that cared enough to come in to talk to students”.
Examples:
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UCL Academy [click title to link to the website for the event]
● Deputy Head Teacher Diarmuid Molloy booked 6 speakers for 2 events in October 2014 with the aim of complementing traditional ‘theory’ lessons with real life examples.
● Impact:
○ Sharpened students understanding of future careers
○ Showed intricate links between the Science, Maths, Technology and Engineering areas
○ Showed students how interesting and fun STEM can be
● Following those events Diarmuid has booked a PROGRAMME of EVENTS part of UCL’s ‘Women in STEM’ week in March 2015.
● Diarmuid has said that it takes him one fifth of the time to book F4S session with 4 speakers as it usually takes him to book one speaker.
Examples:
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Ambassadors: Students
Click to watch a 10 second youtube clip from a student from JFS School in North
London just after a role model event at her school…
See the event details and line up of speakers here
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Ambassadors: Teachers
Click to watch a 10 second youtube clip from the teacher just after a role model
event at his school…
See the event details and line up of speakers here
Andrew Flack, Head of Year 12, JFS School
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"A great initiative and a unique opportunity for students to see where their education can take them. Founders4Schools events show teachers show students which are the high growth sectors and where the jobs are likely to be when they leave education."
Eben UptonCEO
RaspberryPi
Ambassadors: Business Leaders
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Ambassadors: Business Leaders
“In an age of digital disruption, young people's career paths have never been more uncertain. The jobs of tomorrow have yet to be created today. Founders4Schools is dedicated to inspiring, motivating and mentoring young people to see their potential within the world of business and as the entrepreneurs and change-makers of the future.”
Kathryn Parsons, co-Founder and co-CEO,
DECODED
Kathryn spoke at the Channing School for Girls
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Ambassadors: Business Leaders
“The biggest impact I can make to creating more great tech and business leaders - especially female ones - is to inspire them while they are still deciding what they want to do with their futures.
By giving these young people examples of careers they may not have thought of, we can really make an impact on their lives, and on future society that benefits from more diverse leadership.”
Alicia Navarro, Co-founder and CEO,
Skimlinks
Alicia most recently spoke at the Central Foundation Boys’ School
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We partner with over 60 organisations to deliver our service. Here’s a selection of our educational partners...
Partners
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About the partnerFounders4Schools is a platform that enables teachers to connect with founders of successful, growing businesses to visit their schools and inspire their students.
2,000,005 students have been inspired
3000 Founders have spoken at inspirational talk events
Partnership dashboard
Partner’s logo
Review of 2014
Moved from Agency to in-house product development
● Quickly implement improvements● Dedicated focus● More direct engagement with the
developers which speeds up our product development process
Secured Edmodo as a partner ● Edmodo has a massive network of teachers in both the US and the UK. We now have a dedicated area on Edmodo that we can engage directly with this community.
Q1
Review of 2014
Secured Telefónica and Wayra as a partner
Telefonica/Wayra are financial partners.
Introduced Partner Referral Programme Monitor
Allows partners to view how many students they have referred to us simply by looking at their individual page
Q2
Review of 2014
IntroducedKPI reporting Dashboard
Allows the Founders4Schools team to monitor overall progress - founders, events, students inspired etc.
Agreed Teach First Partnership Teach First has a network of very engaged teachers very keen to inspire their pupils. We have seen a number of teachers booking follow up events after the success of the initial event.
Q2
Highlighted in Lord Young’s report ‘Enterprise for All’, published June 2014, as an initiative ‘offering high-quality enterprise and careers activities which are beneficial.’
Review of 2014
Secured Nominet Trust as a Partner
Nominet Trust is a financial partner.
Launched Scotland and Northern Ireland
We soft-launched our services to Scotland and Northern Ireland
Q3
We have partnered with more than 60 organisations - and counting!
We are endorsed by the Department for Education and BIS
Review of 2014
Secured iDEA as a Partner The iDEA programme is a national competition to inspire young people between 14-25. Founders4Schools is building a co-branded website for iDEA centres to search for mentors for workshops and speakers for inspirational talk events.
Released dramatically improved Interface for teachers
We have reduced the steps a teacher needs to take to book an event from 11 to 4 and have introduced a refinement system to enable teachers to search for founders that specialise in specific subjects, based on their LinkedIn profile.
Focused on inspiring female students
We introduced in October and deepened in December a bias to the ranking of founders bringing female entrepreneurs higher in the list of results.
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Harriet Williams, Communications & Partnerships Manager
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