Nebraska Business Focus Program

At Standing Bear High School

Preparing Nebraska's future workforce with in-demand business skills and providing students with the opportunity to earn early college credit

Courses

Course Sequence

Pre-Pathway

	Semester 1	Semester 2
Grade 9	World of Business	Digital Media or Computer Science
Grade 10	Marketing	Information Technology

Focus Program

	Semester 1	Semester 2
Grade 11	Take Charge	Differentiated Macro Economics*
Grade 12	Accounting Differentiated 1*	Accounting Differentiated 2*
Grade 12	Sports & Event Marketing	Business Management & Entrepreneurship*

Classes with an asterisk (*) are eligible to earn college credit through UNL.

Course Information

Course Title	Course Description
Take Charge	View in Course Guide
Accounting Differentiated 1	View in Course Guide
Accounting Differentiated 2	View in Course Guide
Sports & Event Marketing	View in Course Guide
Entrepreneurship	View in Course Guide
Differentiated Macro Economics	For 2024–2025: Macro Economics is a course designed to help students understand economic principles as applied to an economic system as a whole. Topics include monetary and fiscal policy, economic output, inflation, exchange rates, economic growth, unemployment and investment. Sectors of an economy including household, business, government and foreign and how they impact gross domestic product will be examined. This course meets the LPS Economics graduation requirement. This course may be available for articulated or dual credit at a post-secondary institution. Please check with the high school counseling center for more information.

School Principal

Susan Cassata
scassat@lps.org
Principal, Standing Bear High School

Program Director

James Blake
jblake@lps.org
Director of Strategic Partnerships and Focus Programs

Coordinator

Lindsay Tillinghast
ltillinghast2@unl.edu
Director, Nebraska Business at Standing Bear High School

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