Education and Business Learning Together

The Startup Classroom is a collaboration between the Sonoma State University School of Education and School of Business and Economics, bridging the best ideas of teachers and entrepreneurs together to forge a new path for student success.

Innovation is brewing at Sonoma State University-both with a burgeoning Entrepreneurial Movement, with educators passionate to demonstrate the interdependency among education and business and create teachers and students ready to discover and integrate their dreams with economic realities.

The days of the world of education and the world of business being seen as separate and even competing entities is gone. There is so much that education can learn from business-based entrepreneurial thinking and there is so much that business can learn from education and philosophies of learning. In fact just referring to these fields separately is, in itself, limiting and quite an outdated notion.

Truly successful people understand their passions and talents and have the ability to see themselves as having unlimited potential. At the same time they must align themselves to the realities of the world economically.