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Part 2: Hiring the Right People for your School Based Enterprise
With your Spirit Box team or your SBE Team, it is important to have a process of replacing members that graduate or leave your team. What kind of person are you looking for? What kind of training process do you have? If you don’t know the answer to this, don’t panic! We have the tools for you and your team.
How to Price your Products in your School Based Enterprise
Pricing products as a new business always comes with a challenge of wondering how do other businesses land on the cost of their goods? Should you mirror what other businesses are doing or raise or lower your prices? The first step is to establish your baseline of your cost of goods.
10 Tips for Your Social Media and How to Apply it to Your SBE
Social media is a prominent part of our lives now. It’s how we connect with people all over the world, stay in contact with family and friends who are far, and how businesses market their products and services.
Spirit Box Academy & What to Expect
To be honest, we are just a team of entrepreneurs hoping to give the next generation the best tools to succeed so they have an advantage as they enter the ‘real world’. We know that teachers are the role models students will remember, and Spirit Box Academy has been developed to support them with relevant tools to help make the biggest, longest lasting impression possible.
School Highlight: Chantilly High School Shares Their Success, Challenges, and How They Plan to Adjust to COVID19
Chantilly High School is located in Chantilly Virginia with around 2,800 students. We called their team to hear their challenges, solutions, and ideas to help fuel your school based enterprise (SBE) or school store. Joining us to talk about their team were students Haerin, Nitya, and Emma as well as their advisor, Karyn Jones. The Chantilly team has a school kiosk, a coffee shop, and a Spirit Box to sell their goods.
Reading the Vendor Contract By: Tyler Hunter, Spirit Box Alum
Whether you already have a Spirit Box, are looking to get one, or you are looking to grow, the first thing you should always do is read your school’s vendor contract. A vendor contract is an agreement between the school and a company essentially saying that the school will only buy certain products from this company.
Conflict Resolution on Your Team
Every team, friendship, and relationship has conflict. Conflict is inevitable but it is how we handle the conflict when it happens. Addressing an issue immediately and before it grows often can result in quicker resolution. Have you had an issue with a teammate and not known what to do? Well, buckle up and let’s go!
8 Tips: How to Increase Your Knowledge on Diversity and Inclusivity
Growing your knowledge for different cultures, religions, genders, races, ethnicities, and other characteristics or cultural expression that you do not identify with will not only improve your career but will improve our world as a whole.
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ― Maya Angelou
Relaunching your Spirit Box in Fall 2020: Time to Create a Plan
Planning for a new year
As our world adjusts to Coronavirus, the school year this fall is already going to be different. Change can be scary but take this time to turn this challenge into an opportunity. Will how you run your Spirit Box need to be adjusted if the school schedule is altered next year? Absolutely. Does that mean it’s going to be a problem? Only if you let it…
Project Based Learning Made Easy
Here’s the thing, we get that project-based learning can be intimidating. You are working so hard for your students already, so adding a new element to the classroom can sound daunting. On top of that, introducing a new curriculum and program to your students is a big step. We get that. That is why we have designed this program to make its implementation as easy for you as possible.