CORE Business Academy helps business owners, professionals, families, churches, schools, and communities learn the practical skills needed to communicate better, use technology wisely, build stronger systems, and grow with confidence.
CORE Business Academy organizes practical education into focused academies so individuals, businesses, churches, schools, and community organizations can quickly find the learning path that fits their needs.
Practical education for families, churches, schools, businesses, and communities navigating technology, safety, influence, truth, and healthy digital habits.
Plain-language AI education focused on useful applications, responsible use, practical workflows, and informed decision-making without the hype.
Training for owners and teams who want cleaner operations, stronger processes, better tools, and less chaos.
High-trust communication and sales training for business owners, professionals, leaders, and teams.
Hands-on training for stronger visibility, better content, clearer messaging, and practical marketing execution.
Accessible community classes delivered through The Technology Bus and partner locations.
CORE Business Academy is designed to grow into a flexible education platform. Start with a live class, attend a Technology Bus session, request group training, or move into self-paced academy access as the membership area expands.
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Practical education for families, churches, schools, businesses, and communities navigating technology, safety, influence, truth, and healthy digital habits.
A comprehensive program that helps participants understand how technology, social media, artificial intelligence, algorithms, scams, misinformation, and digital habits shape everyday life. Participants develop practical habits for evaluating information, setting healthy boundaries, protecting personal data, and using technology with greater wisdom, confidence, and purpose.
I Want to Attend This Class →A digital-safety and awareness class for parents, grandparents, educators, church leaders, and concerned adults. Participants learn how online predators use smartphones, social media, gaming, messaging, secrecy, grooming, and manipulation, which warning signs are often missed, and what practical steps can create safer digital habits and stronger family conversations.
I Want to Attend This Class →Explores synthetic images, cloned voices, manipulated video, automated content, and persuasive digital tactics that can distort trust and influence decisions. Participants learn practical verification habits, how to slow down before sharing, and how to evaluate what is real, credible, and safe.
I Want to Attend This Class →Shows how posts, searches, photos, comments, tags, reviews, and shared content create a lasting digital record. Participants learn how online activity affects personal reputation, school and employment opportunities, business credibility, and family safety, along with practical steps for reviewing and improving their digital footprint.
I Want to Attend This Class →Helps adults and young people recognize harassment, exclusion, impersonation, rumor-spreading, humiliation, and intimidation online. The class covers warning signs, documentation, reporting, supportive conversations, platform tools, and ways to respond without escalating the situation.
I Want to Attend This Class →Examines how notifications, endless scrolling, gaming, streaming, and device routines affect sleep, focus, relationships, and emotional well-being. Participants develop realistic boundaries and household habits that support healthier and more intentional technology use.
I Want to Attend This Class →Provides a practical family-safety framework covering privacy settings, device access, passwords, location sharing, messaging, gaming, social media, scams, and age-appropriate conversations. The goal is to create a safer digital environment without relying only on fear or surveillance.
I Want to Attend This Class →Explains how personal data is collected, stored, shared, and used across websites, apps, devices, and online services. Participants learn how privacy settings, permissions, location tracking, public profiles, cookies, data brokers, shared devices, and account security affect exposure, along with practical ways to protect personal and organizational information.
I Want to Attend This Class →Teaches participants how to create stronger passwords, use multifactor authentication, recognize phishing and impersonation, protect financial and personal information, and respond quickly when an account or identity may have been compromised.
I Want to Attend This Class →Builds practical skills for evaluating headlines, images, videos, sources, claims, and emotionally charged content. Participants learn how misinformation spreads, why people share it, and how to verify information before reacting or passing it along.
I Want to Attend This Class →A calm, practical class focused on scams, fake support calls, suspicious messages, online purchases, passwords, privacy, social media, and safe device use. The class is designed to increase confidence without overwhelming participants with technical language.
I Want to Attend This Class →Helps church leaders and congregations address online communication, privacy, scams, livestreaming, youth safety, digital reputation, social media, and responsible technology use. It provides a practical framework for protecting people while supporting ministry and connection.
I Want to Attend This Class →Equips educators, staff, and families to better understand student privacy, cyberbullying, online behavior, social platforms, AI-generated content, digital reputation, and communication risks. The class emphasizes practical prevention and shared responsibility.
I Want to Attend This Class →Helps parents and educators teach children and teens how to make responsible choices online. Topics include respect, privacy, truthfulness, empathy, boundaries, permanence, reputation, and how to respond when something goes wrong.
I Want to Attend This Class →Plain-language AI education focused on useful applications, responsible use, practical workflows, and informed decision-making without the hype.
A beginner-friendly introduction showing business owners and professionals how artificial intelligence can support planning, writing, marketing, research, customer communication, productivity, and decision-making. The class emphasizes realistic expectations, verification, and responsible use.
I Want to Attend This Class →Separates useful AI capability from exaggerated claims. Participants learn what current AI tools can and cannot do, where they add value, where they create risk, and how to decide whether a given use case belongs in their work.
I Want to Attend This Class →Teaches how to give AI tools clearer instructions, useful context, constraints, examples, and desired output formats. Participants learn a repeatable framework for improving results and reducing wasted time.
I Want to Attend This Class →Demonstrates how AI can support campaign ideas, audience research, content planning, email drafts, social posts, offers, and repurposing. The class also covers originality, brand voice, verification, and responsible review.
I Want to Attend This Class →Covers practical ways to use AI for ideas, outlines, scripts, captions, newsletters, presentations, and repurposing. Participants learn how to maintain originality, accuracy, and a consistent voice.
I Want to Attend This Class →Helps educators understand how AI affects lesson planning, student work, assessment, research, classroom policy, and digital literacy. The class includes practical uses, limitations, and ethical considerations.
I Want to Attend This Class →Examines bias, privacy, consent, transparency, accuracy, ownership, accountability, and the human impact of automated decisions. Participants learn a practical framework for making responsible choices.
I Want to Attend This Class →Training for owners and teams who want cleaner operations, stronger processes, better tools, and less chaos.
Explains what a customer relationship management system is, why it matters, and how it can help a business organize contacts, leads, follow-up, appointments, opportunities, and customer communication. The focus is practical structure rather than software jargon.
I Want to Attend This Class →A practical systems class for business owners and leaders who are feeling the strain of growth, inconsistency, repeated mistakes, or too much dependence on one person. Participants learn how to identify operational pressure points, document critical workflows, clarify ownership, reduce bottlenecks, and build scalable systems before the business reaches a breaking point.
I Want to Attend This Class →Teaches participants how to visually map the steps, people, decisions, tools, and handoffs involved in recurring business work. The result is greater clarity, easier improvement, and fewer hidden bottlenecks.
I Want to Attend This Class →Shows how to identify repetitive tasks that can be automated, choose appropriate triggers and actions, and create reliable workflows without automating broken processes.
I Want to Attend This Class →Guides participants through writing standard operating procedures that are clear, usable, maintainable, and tied to real business outcomes.
I Want to Attend This Class →High-trust communication and sales training for business owners, professionals, leaders, and teams.
A high-trust sales and communication class that teaches how to build credibility, ask better questions, uncover real needs, communicate value clearly, handle resistance naturally, and guide decisions without pressure tactics.
I Want to Attend This Class →Shows how to respond to hesitation, uncertainty, timing, price, and competing priorities by staying curious, respectful, and focused on the real concern.
I Want to Attend This Class →Teaches practical follow-up timing, messaging, value reinforcement, and next-step structure so opportunities do not disappear after a good conversation.
I Want to Attend This Class →Helps participants move from pitching to diagnosing by connecting recommendations to the buyer's actual situation, priorities, and desired outcomes.
I Want to Attend This Class →Provides a practical approach to meeting people, starting useful conversations, following up, and building relationships that lead to referrals and opportunities.
I Want to Attend This Class →Examines every major customer touchpoint and shows how clarity, consistency, responsiveness, and follow-through shape retention and reputation.
I Want to Attend This Class →Teaches how to earn, request, track, and nurture referrals through a repeatable relationship-based process.
I Want to Attend This Class →Builds practical skills in clarity, listening, feedback, expectations, difficult conversations, accountability, and team alignment.
I Want to Attend This Class →Hands-on training for stronger visibility, better content, clearer messaging, and practical marketing execution.
Helps small-business owners and professionals understand what to post, how to identify the right audience, how to build trust, how to create a realistic content rhythm, and how to connect social activity to business goals.
I Want to Attend This Class →A hands-on introduction to the Canva workspace, templates, brand consistency, basic layout principles, and creating social posts, flyers, presentations, and everyday marketing materials.
I Want to Attend This Class →Builds beyond the basics with stronger visual hierarchy, reusable templates, brand kits, presentations, video content, marketing collateral, and efficient design workflows.
I Want to Attend This Class →Covers profile completeness, categories, services, photos, reviews, posts, local relevance, and conversion-focused improvements for stronger local visibility.
I Want to Attend This Class →Teaches how to write clearer headlines, offers, calls to action, emails, pages, and social content by focusing on the audience and the outcome.
I Want to Attend This Class →Accessible community classes delivered through The Technology Bus and partner locations.
Covers calls, messages, contacts, photos, settings, accessibility, updates, Wi-Fi, apps, and safer smartphone use.
I Want to Attend This Class →Explains browsers, websites, search, links, downloads, online forms, accounts, and safe navigation.
I Want to Attend This Class →Introduces what AI is, where people encounter it, how it can help, where it can mislead, and what responsible use looks like.
I Want to Attend This Class →An interactive introduction to The Technology Bus, its equipment, connectivity, mobile classroom capabilities, and available community learning experiences.
I Want to Attend This Class →The Technology Bus™ is the mobile classroom and community outreach division of CORE Business Academy.
Instead of being a separate offering, the bus becomes a mobile front door into the academy model by bringing practical classes directly to neighborhoods, schools, churches, libraries, community centers, senior communities, businesses, and events.
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Social Media & Mental Health
Explores how comparison, feedback loops, validation, outrage, exposure, and constant connectivity can affect mood, confidence, identity, and relationships. Participants learn how to recognize unhealthy patterns and create healthier digital routines.
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