Own Your Future

APPENDIX A

Teaching the ALBR Model

The ALBR approach can also work in our schools—up to and including college. Instituting this model would be wonderful, since the earlier we learn entrepreneurial skills, the better off we all will be. Let’s see how it could be done.

It would be lovely to think that you could easily introduce the ALBR approach to problem solving into your local school system. And while the reality is you could—it would just serve as an additional block of material that would be taught whenever the curriculum called for a discussion of how to deal with uncertainty—in social studies when you were discussing how public policy is created, for example—the reality is it is not that simple.

School systems are overwhelmed these days ...