JA High School Heroes Initiative
JA’s High School Heroes Initiative is an innovative service-learning project that helps high school students build valuable employability skills like leadership, public speaking, critical thinking, and time management.
- Students are selected by their educators to participate. High School Heroes may come from FEA, FBLA, DECA, JROTC, Key Clubs, or service organizations.
- This community service project can be implemented in an individual class, over an entire grade, or after school.
- Students visit a local elementary school to team-teach JA’s interactive curriculum over one day.
- JA Staff provides all materials and training at no cost to the school or district.
JA High School Heroes: A win-win for students and schools.
- The JA High School Heroes initiative allows your district’s elementary students to receive JA’s standards-based financial literacy curriculum at no cost.
- High School Heroes have the opportunity to connect with business leaders and mentors, participate in additional JA activities and events, and are eligible for JA’s High School Heroes Annual Scholarship.
- In a recent JA High School Heros survey, 90% agreed or strongly agreed that the experience helped them improve their public speaking skills - preparing them for life after high school.
Click on this link JA High School Heroes PowerPoint to learn more about Junior Achievement and this initiative.
JA High School Heroes video training links:
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Kindergarten: Ourselves (There are 5 videos for the Ourselves lessons):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqHUaRVNxL4&list=PL4btTFCsN4JHQMbl_Hq84TDqA0uDiug0o
1st Grade: Our Families (There are 5 videos for the Our Families lessons):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml9rQcpMFUQ&list=PL4btTFCsN4JHY5ONNxnaDzDiBU2a4dgda
2nd Grade: Our Community (There are 5 videos for the Our Community lessons):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHi0N6UJ_Tg&list=PL4btTFCsN4JFtyk4ck67XCJuVgVpFy_UZ
3rd Grade: Our City (There are 5 videos for the Our City lessons):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTTJOYwJz0k&list=PL4btTFCsN4JGslNPkU8NLZhISnKWHEvZR
4th Grade: Our Region (There are 5 videos for the Our Region lessons):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO--gO9AFJI&list=PL4btTFCsN4JFO2BrU6LagEB3wWsLF_f4C
5th Grade: Our Nation (There are 5 videos for the Our Nation lessons):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA7XNWemmTc&list=PL4btTFCsN4JGg63JtaQvFsaAA6KWuZymx
JA High School Heroes Teaching/Lesson Guides link:
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