Students will develop foundational habits of innovation: observation, empathy, imagination, persistence, collaboration, responsible decision-making, communication, and reflection. Teachers will provide clear structures, models, vocabulary, materials, and guided practice so that all students—including those who need more explicit instruction, support with executive functioning, or alternative means of communication—can participate meaningfully. Engineering design-cycle learning, for example, offers elementary students a concrete framework for recognizing problems, generating ideas, testing prototypes, and improving solutions (Ozkul, H., 2025).

At this level, success will not be measured by financial outcomes. It will be demonstrated through students’ ability to ask questions, explain their thinking, use academic skills in context, work with others, revise after feedback, and recognize how their ideas can help someone else.