Overview of
Junior Achievement
Junior Achievement partners with
businesses and educators to brings the real
world to students, opening their minds to
their potential.
We teach kids how
America Works!
Our Purpose:
To inspire and prepare young people to
succeed in a global economy.
Our Vision:
To provide every student with a
fundamental understanding of the free
enterprise system.
Junior Achievement has successfully partnered with
teachers, schools and businesses to deliver quality
programs for over 85 years using the same simple
business model.
It takes three things to make that model work:
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The best curriculum available
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A trained volunteer working with a teacher
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Funding for that curriculum to support the efforts of
our volunteers and teachers
JA Central Texas Fact Sheet
• Junior Achievement programs teach financial literacy and
economic education to students in Kindergarten through 12th
grade.
• In 2006-07, JA Central Texas reached over 12,000 students
in public and private schools throughout the area.
• Over 500 business employees volunteer in the classroom for
JA each year.
• JA’s programs work. According to a survey conducted by the
Worldwide Institute for Research and Evaluation, JA
participants had higher high school completion rates and
higher college enrollment rates than their non-participating
peers.
JA Curriculum
• Spans grades K-12 with all programs providing
experiential learning opportunities
• Focus on seven key content areas
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Financial Literacy
Economics
Entrepreneurship
Business
Ethics/Character
Citizenship
Career Development
Educators Value JA
• JA programs align with state and federal
academic content standards.
• Teachers have high praise for the program. They
rate it 9.4 on a 10-point scale. Ninety-nine
percent also say their students enjoy it.
• Teachers credit volunteers as a major factor in the
impact of the curriculum, saying that volunteers
bring an outside business perspective into the
classroom and serve as positive role models for
students.
Middle School Programs
Economics, business and personal finance
curricula for 6th – 8th graders. Six volunteer
led activities
• JA Global Marketplace
• JA Economics for Success
• JA America Works
High School Programs
Economic and business curricula for students in
the 9th – 12th grade. Eight volunteer led activities.
• JA Success Skills
• JA Economics
• JA Titan
• JA Banks in Action
• JA Financial Literacy (new)
• JA Careers with a Purpose (new)
• JA Business Ethics (new)
AISD Schools Using JA
in 2006-07
• Burnet Middle School
• Covington Middle School
• Austin High School
• Bowie High School
• LBJ High School
• Reagan High School
• Travis High School
Thank You!!!
Requesting JA in your class is easy!
Rosanna Guerrero
rguerrero@jacentex.org
(512)499-8025