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Bring Junior Achievement to your students! We have a variety of programs that will inspire your students, regardless of their age, in a way that’s fun AND easy to implement in your learning environment. There are two avenues of learning to fit your needs: in-school classroom programming during the academic year (click the blue button below!) OR out-of-school programming or summer school (click the green button below!)
Have questions or can’t find what you are looking for? Contact the Education Manager for more information.
JA Ourselves uses storybook characters in read-aloud and hands-on activities to introduce the role people play in an economy and teach about individual choices, money, the importance of saving and giving, and the value of work.
5 Sessions
30 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA Our Families introduces students to entrepreneurship and learning objectives for social studies, including families, neighborhoods, money, and needs and wants. Through hands-on activities students explore the ways businesses provide goods, services, and jobs for families.
5 Sessions
30 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA Community Coders is a single lesson that can be taught individually or used as a supplmenet to JA Our Families, JA Our Community, or JA Our City programs. This lesson teaches students the importance of digital skills and jobs in the community. They also learn about digital programming.
1 Session
30 Minutes
Digital Only
JA Our Community 2.0 introduces students to work readiness and shows how citizens benefit from and contribute to a community’s success using posters and games to offer practical information about businesses and the many jobs those businesses offer in a community.
5 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA Our City featuring Cha-Ching™ introduces students to financial literacy and learning objectives for social studies, including how people manage their money and the importance of economic exchange within a city.
5 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA More than Money introduces students to financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and social studies learning objectives that include money-management skills, goods and services, and global markets.
5 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA Our Region introduces students to entrepreneurship and upper elementary social studies learning objectives, including regions, resources, supply chains, and problem solving through games and activities.
5 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA Our Nation provides practical information about the need for employees who can meet the demands of the 21st century job market, particularly high-growth, high-demand jobs.
5 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA BizTown combines in-class learning with a day-long visit to a simulated town, helping to connect the dots between what students learn in school and the real world.
***See our JA BizTown page for more details and to request registration!***
5 Units/14 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
+ Field Trip to JA BizTown
JA BizTown Self-Guided (Adventures) is a culminating experience for students that follows the JA BizTown curriculum. They gain an understanding of various aspects of runnign a business as they take on different roles. This can be used an an alternative simulation or or if students are unable to visit the in-person simulation.
Fill out the request form below for more information!
5 Sessions/14 Models
20-30 Minutes Each
Digital Only
JA Career Exploration Fair is an event where students learn about a range of career options across multiple career clusters. Volunteers share information about their businesses and/or jobs, and students ask questions as the speakers or students rotate from station to station.
Pre & Post Sessions Available & Recommended
Vary by Grade Level
+ 3-5 Hour Career Fair
In JA Career Speaker Series, a volunteer guest speaker visits the classroom and shares information about his or her career, work, and education experience. The speaker may bring props, work samples, or other visuals to help engage students.
Pre & Post Sessions Available & Recommended
Vary by Grade Level
+ Speaker Event
JA BizTown combines in-class learning with a day-long visit to a simulated town, helping to connect the dots between what students learn in school and the real world.
***See our JA BizTown page for more details and to request registration!***
5 Units/14 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
+ Field Trip to JA BizTown
JA BizTown Self-Guided (Adventures) is a culminating experience for students that follows the JA BizTown curriculum. They gain an understanding of various aspects of runnign a business as they take on different roles. This can be used an an alternative simulation or or if students are unable to visit the in-person simulation.
Fill out the request form below for more information!
5 Sessions/14 Models
20-30 Minutes Each
Digital Only
JA Company Program Pop Up teaches students how to plan, launch, and operate their own business. This program is a shortened version of the traditional, JA Company Program. It can also be implemented with students in middle school.
7 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
+ Business Pop-up Experience
JA Economics for Success helps students explore career interests and opportunities and learn about financial roles and responsibilities. Implementation can feature a single pathway, either Work and Career Readiness or Financial Literacy, or a combination of both in this blended class.
6-10 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Excellence Through Ethics helps students understand the importance ethics plays in school, work & everday life. They explore personal values, character development, and ethcis as it relates to each of these.
1 Session
60-90 Minutes
Digital Format
JA Finance Park Virtual helps students build a foundation on which they can make intelligent financial decisions that last a lifetime, including decisions related to income, expenses, savings, and credit.
14 Sessions
30-45 Minutes Each
+ 3 Hour Virtual Simulation
JA Global Marketplace introduces students to the global marketplace and the ways in which countries buy and sell from each other. They also analyze the similarities and differences among countries and the effects of the free enterprise.
7 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA Inspire Entry brings together the business community and local schools in person. Students are able to participate in webinars and presentations, explore company exhibits, and interact with career speakers.
7 Sessions
30-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
+ Career Fair
JA Inspire Virtual brings together the business community and local schools. Students are able to participate in virtual webinars and presentations, explore company exhibits, and interact with career speakers.
7 Sessions
30-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
+ Virtual Career Fair
Through engaging activities, JA It’s My Business! Blended Model provides middle school students an opportunity to experience the initial steps necessary to start a business.
6 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA It’s My Future Blended Model offers middle school students practical information to help prepare them for the working world. Students will develop the personal-branding and job-hunting skills needed to earn a job.
6 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA It’s My Job (Soft Skills) helps students understand the value of professional communication and soft skills. Lessons focus on social and soft skill competencies that relate real-life experiences to job skills and prepare students for their future careers.
6 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Tools for Success introduces students to career and work readiness skills. These transferable skills help them prepare to work in a digital economy. These activities can be done individually or as supplements to other programs and curriculum.
5 Sessions
5-15 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Career Exploration Fair is an event where students learn about a range of career options across multiple career clusters. Volunteers share information about their businesses and/or jobs, and students ask questions as the speakers or students rotate from station to station.
Pre & Post Sessions Available & Recommended
Vary by Grade Level
+ 3-5 Hour Career Fair
In JA Career Speaker Series, a volunteer guest speaker visits the classroom and shares information about his or her career, work, and education experience. The speaker may bring props, work samples, or other visuals to help engage students.
Pre & Post Sessions Available & Recommended
Vary by Grade Level
+ Speaker Event
JA All About Cars introduces students to the essential costs related to buying an doperating a first car and offer other tips for being smart consumers. This program can be delivered as a stand-alone session or in conjunction with another learning experience.
1 Session
45-60 Minutes
Digital Format
JA Be Entrepreneurial teaches students about the mindset and the skills needed by aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators. In JA Creative Problem Solving, students learn and apply design thinking, a problem-solving process used by entrepreneurs to brainstorm customer-centric ideas, focusing on user needs and experience in order to design a solution.
5 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Be Entrepreneurial teaches students about the mindset and the skills needed by aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators. In Rapid Business Planning, Lean Canvas, the strategic management template for developing business models, is used to transform their ideas into concise, effective, actionable one-page business plans.
6 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Be Entrepreneurial teaches students about the mindset and the skills needed by aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators. In JA Think Like an Entrepreneur, students develop a mindset that enables opportunity identification, innovation, value creation, and problem solving.
3 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Career Success introduces students to the workplace. As interns, students participate in realistic work experiences in multiple departments of a fictional company, teaching soft skills and business best practices in the context of scenarios and assignments.
7 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Company Program empowers high school students to fill a need or solve a problem in their community. They learn practical skills required to conceptualize, capitalize, and manage their own business venture.
14 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
+ Business Experience
JA Company Program Pop Up teaches students how to plan, launch, and operate their own business. This program is a shortened version of the traditional, JA Company Program. It can also be implemented with students in middle school.
7 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
+ Business Pop-Up Experience
JA Excellence Through Ethics helps students understand the importance ethics plays in school, work & everday life. They explore personal values, character development, and ethcis as it relates to each of these.
7 Sessions
60-90 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Finance Park Virtual helps students build a foundation on which they can make intelligent financial decisions that last a lifetime, including decisions related to income, expenses, savings, and credit.
14 Sessions
30-45 Minutes Each
+ 3 Hour Virtual Simulation
JA High School Heroes provides leadership development opportunities to high school students who deliver JA programs in elementary schools. Students learn the qualities of a leader, and use presentation skills, problem solving and critical thinking skills.
4 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Inspire Advanced brings together the business community and local schools. Students are able to participate in virtual webinars and presentations, explore company exhibits, and interact with career speakers.
7 Sessions
30-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
+ Virtual Career Fair
JA It’s My Job (Soft Skills) helps students understand the value of professional communication and soft skills. Lessons focus on social and soft skill competencies that relate real-life experiences to job skills and prepare students for their future careers.
6 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Job Shadow is an individualized career path designed by the students. After completing career interest assessments, and informal interviews they narrow down the results and then spend time shadowing the company of their choice.
8 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
+Job Shadow Visits
JA Launch Lesson is an entry-point program designed to teach students about starting a business and the entrepreneurial journey from entrepreneurs themselves.
1 Session
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
Through JA Personal Finance 2.0, students experience the interrelationship between today’s financial decisions and future financial freedom. To achieve financial health and wellness, they learn about money-management strategies, including budgeting, saving, credit and debt, consumer protection, smart shopping, investing, and net worth.
8 Sessions (+4 optional)
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Take Stock in Your Future introduces students to the stock market. They learn basic concepts, how the stock market works and the impact current events have on it.
5 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
+ Stock Market Challenge Event
JA Titan is a simulation-based program where students compete as CEOs. They make financial decisions about production, marketing, research and development, and corporate social responsibility and see how each decision relates to future success of the company.
11 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
+ Competition Event
JA Career Exploration Fair is an event where students learn about a range of career options across multiple career clusters. Volunteers share information about their businesses and/or jobs, and students ask questions as the speakers or students rotate from station to station.
Pre & Post Sessions Available & Recommended
Vary by Grade Level
+ 3-5 Hour Career Fair
In JA Career Speaker Series, a volunteer guest speaker visits the classroom and shares information about his or her career, work, and education experience. The speaker may bring props, work samples, or other visuals to help engage students.
Pre & Post Sessions Available & Recommended
Vary by Grade Level
+ Speaker Event
JA Business Communications focuses on communication skills necessary to succeed in business, including communicating up, down, and across organizations; talking about job performance; and writing in a business setting.
4 Units, 4 Sessions in Each
45-90 Minutes Sessions
Digital Format
JA Economics connects students to the economic principles that influence their daily life as well as their future. They learn the elements of the economy including the national economy, markets, and engage in debate between the government and market solutions.
Semester Long
45-90 Minutes Sessions
Digital Format
JA Entrepreneurial Mindset introduces students to the basics of starting a business – developing entrepreneurial abilities, identifying business opportunities, creating business plans, understanding economics, and identifying the stages of business growth.
4 Units, 4 Sessions in Each
45-90 Minutes Sessions
Digital Format
JA Financial Capability 1 allows students to examine financial capabilities from a business perspective. They focus on banking, economics, business planning and risk management.
4 Units, 4 Sessions in Each
45-90 Minutes Sessions
Digital Format
JA Financial Capability 2 takes what students learned in JA Financial Capability 1 and goes a little deeper. Still from a business persepctive, students exampine employee benefits, ethics, business investment, and international business operations.
4 Units, 4 Sessions in Each
45-90 Minutes Sessions
Digital Format
JA Financial Literacy equips high school students with foundational personal finance skills. These skills include how to earn and save money; manage money; manage bank accounts, investments, and credit; assess risks and use insurance; and address financial problems like identity theft and debt.
4 Units, 4 Sessions in Each
45-90 Minutes Sessions
Digital Format
JA Introduction to Business and Technology 1 introduces high school students to the basic skills necessary to succeed in business. Themes include personal skills like teamwork, innovation, decision making, and ethics.
4 Units, 4 Sessions in Each
45-90 Minutes Sessions
Digital Format
JA Introduction to Business and Technology 2 introduces high school students to the basic skills necessary to succeed in business. Themes include personal skills like innovation, management functions, and accounting.
4 Units, 4 Sessions in Each
45-90 Minutes Sessions
Digital Format
JA Marketing Principles 1 introduces students to the basic understanding and techniques of marketing. These include understanding the consumer, place, product, price and promotion, examining the current market and the global market as well as ethics in marketing.
4 Units, 4 Sessions in Each
45-90 Minutes Sessions
Digital Format
JA Marketing Principles 2 allows students to take a deeper dive into the world of marketing around them as well as highlights potential careers in the industry.
4 Units, 4 Sessions in Each
45-90 Minutes Sessions
Digital Format
All Junior Achievement programs are aligned with State & National as well as Common Core Standards. For more information regarding each, click on the links below.
