216 - Don Wettrick on Teaching Entrepreneurship

In today's episode, the team will be speaking with Don Wettrick, the founder and President of STARTedUP Foundation! Don's father was a teacher, and after attempting career #1, he decided to go back and follow in his father's footsteps and become a teacher too. Don found that he enjoyed growing things and becoming entrepreneurial. After watching Dan Pink's 2009 TED Talk entitled, 'The Puzzle of Motivation,' he knew similar principles could be utilized in the classroom and decided to apply them to his own teaching methods. Don doesn't believe that every student should become an entrepreneur, but he does believe that they should all think like one. They should be able to think critically, reframe problems, and collaborate — and that's what led Don to start STARTedUP Foundation. STARTedUP Foundation has the incredible mission to empower students by immersing them into an entrepreneurial way of being, inspiring them to start something new, and mentoring them through new ventures. Their goal is to prepare students to be enterprising contributors in this changing world! Tune in to hear Don as he talks to Tom about what students should be learning and future plans for the foundation! Key...