DCSS Update: October 2016
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Mayor Hubbard speaks to<br />
MLK students<br />
State Farm Agent Kent Nance speaks to a class at Dougherty<br />
Comprehensive High School. Mr. Nance will help DCHS students<br />
navigate the Entrepreneurship Career Pathway.<br />
State Farm agent to serve as<br />
business partner at DCHS<br />
State Farm Agent and Entrepreneur, Kent Nance,<br />
will serve as a business partner with the Entrepreneurship<br />
class at Dougherty Comprehensive High School.<br />
He will assist students in developing a business<br />
plan, which will be their end-of-the-pathway final<br />
summative assessment for the class. Students in the<br />
class are enrolled in the Entrepreneurship Career<br />
Pathway.<br />
Entrepreneurship focuses on recognizing a business<br />
opportunity, starting a business, and operating<br />
and maintaining a business. Students are exposed to<br />
the development of critical thinking, problem solving,<br />
and innovation in the course as they will be either the<br />
business owner or individuals working in a competitive<br />
job market in the future.<br />
Integration of accounting, finance, marketing,<br />
business management, legal, and economic environments<br />
will be developed throughout this course.<br />
Additionally, Mr. Nance has initiated the introduction<br />
to a career portfolio. He plans to visit the class frequently<br />
to present future workshops. As a final project,<br />
students will generate a business idea, which will<br />
be developed into a written business plan.<br />
Students will present their final business plan to<br />
a panel of entrepreneurs developed by Mr. Nance.<br />
Mrs. D. Lewis is the instructor for the Entrepreneurship<br />
class.<br />
Albany Mayor Dorothy Hubbard met with the third grade students<br />
at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School to reinforce<br />
social studies standards taught in the third grade. Students were<br />
able to participate in a government session with Mayor Hubbard.<br />
She discussed the mayor’s responsibilities as well as the requirements<br />
for becoming a mayor. Mayor Hubbard also shared plans<br />
for improving Albany and the importance of voting with her<br />
audience. Third grade teacher Quannekqua Norris coordinated<br />
this activity.
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