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Florida Standards Alignment
How the Boss Kid Build 8-Kit Series maps to Florida's CTE entrepreneurship standards.
Boss Kid Build is a pre-secondary, CTE-adjacent digital entrepreneurship curriculum for learners ages 8–12 (grades 3–6). It builds the vocabulary, mindsets, and habits students need to succeed in high school Career & Technical Education. Every kit develops competencies that align with the entrepreneurship instruction delivered through the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) Career & Technical Education program.
Florida's Entrepreneurship program (8812100) sits in the Business Management & Administration career cluster and is defined by a set of numbered program standards and benchmarks maintained in FLDOE's CTE Curriculum Frameworks on CPALMS. A simulated business or school-based enterprise is an integral part of the program, and courses incorporate Florida's Career-Ready Practices. This document maps each Boss Kid Build kit to those program standards.
Where Entrepreneurship Lives in Florida
Entrepreneurship Program (8812100): A multi-credit secondary program with numbered standards and benchmarks covering idea generation, marketing, selling, pricing, financing, management, and the entrepreneurial mindset.
Business Management & Administration Cluster: The career cluster that houses the program, spanning planning and development, marketing, ethics, laws, and e-commerce.
School-Based Enterprise: A simulated or real student-run business is an integral, required part of the program's instruction.
Career-Ready Practices & CTSOs: FLDOE's Career-Ready Practices run through every course; FBLA and DECA are the aligned Career & Technical Student Organizations.
Kit-by-Kit Alignment
Each kit maps to the Florida course, cluster, or standard it most directly prepares students for. Boss Kid Build is pre-secondary and functions as a CTE on-ramp, not a replacement for Florida's approved courses.
| Boss Kid Build Kit |
Florida Program Area (8812100) |
Aligned Standards Focus & Career-Ready Practices |
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Kit 1 — Find Your Big Idea Stage 1: Discover
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Entrepreneurship (8812100) — Idea Generation |
Discuss entrepreneurship as a career choice; generate a business idea using design thinking and customer discovery; basic economic principles |
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Kit 2 — Know Your Customer Stage 1: Discover
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Entrepreneurship (8812100) — Marketing Principles |
Identify the principles of marketing; customer discovery; target market |
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Kit 3 — Build Your Brand Stage 2: Build
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Entrepreneurship (8812100) — Branding |
Create a brand; principles of design thinking; product/service planning |
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Kit 4 — Make Your Product or Service Stage 2: Build
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Entrepreneurship (8812100) — Planning & Operations |
Outline the steps in planning a new business; production; merchandising and inventory |
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Kit 5 — Set Your Price Stage 3: Launch
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Entrepreneurship (8812100) — Pricing & Financing |
Identify the principles of pricing and financing; components of a financial management strategy |
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Kit 6 — Spread the Word Stage 3: Launch
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Entrepreneurship (8812100) — Promotion & Communication |
Communication and technology skills; promotion within the principles of marketing |
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Kit 7 — Make the Sale Stage 4: Grow
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Entrepreneurship (8812100) — Selling |
Identify the principles of selling; customer relations within a school-based enterprise |
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Kit 8 — Lead & Level Up Stage 4: Grow
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Entrepreneurship (8812100) — Management & Mindset |
Principles of management; entrepreneurial mindset; business plan and lean model canvas · Career-Ready Practices |
A Note on Alignment Level
Boss Kid Build introduces these program areas at an age-appropriate, awareness-and-application level for ages 8–12. Florida's Entrepreneurship program carries them to mastery and industry certification. The alignment reflects prerequisite readiness — the concepts and habits that let students arrive in the FLDOE program already fluent in the language of business.
References the FLDOE Entrepreneurship program (8812100) in the current CTE Curriculum Frameworks (CPALMS) and Florida's Career-Ready Practices. Standards are subject to revision; verify current frameworks at fldoe.org and cpalms.org.
