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South Dakota Standards Alignment
How the Boss Kid Build 8-Kit Series maps to South Dakota'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 business instruction delivered through the South Dakota Department of Education (SD DOE) CTE programs.
South Dakota teaches entrepreneurship within its Business Management & Administration and Marketing, Sales & Service clusters, with Career Readiness standards at the core. South Dakota is modernizing its CTE framework — a new Management & Entrepreneurship cluster takes effect in 2027 — built ‘from the middle out’ around Essential Skills for Success. This document maps each Boss Kid Build kit to those standards.
Where Entrepreneurship Lives in South Dakota
Business Management & Administration: The cluster covering planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating business functions.
Marketing, Sales & Service: The cluster covering customers, branding, promotion, and selling.
Career Readiness (Essential Skills for Success): The soft-skills standards at the core of South Dakota's modernized framework.
Management & Entrepreneurship (2027) & CTSOs: A modernized Management & Entrepreneurship cluster takes effect July 2027; DECA, FBLA, and BPA are the aligned CTSOs.
Kit-by-Kit Alignment
Each kit maps to the South Dakota 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 South Dakota's approved courses.
| Boss Kid Build Kit |
South Dakota Cluster |
Aligned Focus |
|
Kit 1 — Find Your Big Idea
Stage 1: Discover
|
Business Management & Administration |
Entrepreneurial opportunity and mindset; Essential Skills for Success (critical thinking, adaptability) |
|
Kit 2 — Know Your Customer
Stage 1: Discover
|
Marketing, Sales & Service |
Market research; identify customers |
|
Kit 3 — Build Your Brand
Stage 2: Build
|
Marketing, Sales & Service |
Branding and promotion |
|
Kit 4 — Make Your Product or Service
Stage 2: Build
|
Business Management & Administration |
Product/service; operations |
|
Kit 5 — Set Your Price
Stage 3: Launch
|
Business Management & Administration |
Pricing; economics; financial basics |
|
Kit 6 — Spread the Word
Stage 3: Launch
|
Marketing, Sales & Service |
Promotion and marketing communications |
|
Kit 7 — Make the Sale
Stage 4: Grow
|
Marketing, Sales & Service |
Selling and customer relations |
|
Kit 8 — Lead & Level Up
Stage 4: Grow
|
Business Management & Administration |
Business plan and management; leadership (DECA/FBLA) |
A Note on Alignment Level
Boss Kid Build introduces these standards at an age-appropriate, awareness-and-application level for ages 8–12. South Dakota's secondary courses carry them to mastery. The alignment reflects prerequisite readiness — the concepts and habits that let students arrive in South Dakota's business and marketing clusters already fluent in the language of business.
References the SD DOE Business Management & Administration and Marketing clusters, Career Readiness standards, and the modernized Management & Entrepreneurship cluster (effective 2027). Standards are subject to revision; verify current frameworks at doe.sd.gov.
