Barbara Bilgre

Barbara has taught in multiple countries. When she was teaching in Ghana, her students had direct contact with successful local social entrepreneurs and created their own businesses as part of a school project. She recently supported a social entrepreneurship project at her school in India, where students devised ways to use electricity to address community needs while considering sustainability and financial viability. Barbara urges schools to let teachers dedicate more teaching time to developing practical approaches and projects that prepare students for potential entrepreneurial endeavors in the future.

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“I think that more schools need to decide that (entrepreneurial training) is an important aspect of education, and then timetable it in for the kids to have a purposeful time to focus on this.”

Barbara Bilgre

Barbara Bilgre

Barbara Bilgre is a marine biologist from the US who became a teacher in 2001. She is now an experienced middle school science teacher who has taught in international schools all over the world. She is currently at the American International School in Lusaka, Zambia and was previously the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program Coordinator and a science teacher in schools India and Japan. She also worked in schools in Ghana and the US. She believes in student agency, social entrepreneurship and environmental protection. She loves elephants and is engaged in a long-term collaborative project on the photo-identification of African elephants.

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