Spirit Box Tips & Tricks
We share ongoing updates, ideas and solutions from other Spirit Box school stores.
How to Train a New Spirit Box Team
If something were to happen, where you could not fulfill your role, would the next person be prepared to take over? People leave roles all of the time for a variety of reasons whether they move, change jobs, graduate, etc. It is your responsibility to prepare the person who fills your role when you leave through proper documentation, notes, important contact information, and more. Leaving proper documentation and notes will allow your successor to not only fill your responsibilities but grow the role through their personal strengths.
Introducing: The Beverage Spirit Box
Everyone, we have been sitting on some pretty exciting news for a while now and FINALLY we get to tell you. Spirit Box is launching a new vending option for schools: the beverage box. This is a machine that vends cold beverages. We are excited to tell you more about the box and how our pilot schools, Olathe East High School and Camdenton High School, are doing since implementing it in recent months.
Why Having a Contingency Plan is Crucial for Your Spirit Box
This has been a very uneasy few weeks with the growth of COVID19. Our country is slowly filling with more anxiety around the spread of this virus; anxiety for our health and for our economy. As business owners, for the health of our business, we must have a plan of action for how we keep our business afloat during a time like this. Specifically, for a Spirit Box business, many schools are extending breaks as well as moving to remote teaching for the rest of the semester. What can your team do during this time of uncertainty? A great start is to create a contingency plan.
Visioning: Writing Your Preferred Future
Laying out our vision says we believe that tomorrow will be better than today; that if we work together, we can make great things happen.
Coming this Fall: CTE Aligned Curriculum Exclusively for Spirit Box Teams!
Over the years, we have talked to many schools about Spirit Box, brainstormed on how we could better serve them, and how we can become more accessible to schools. A consistent answer we hear is “we need a curriculum paired with the Spirit Box that meets national standards”.
5 Tips on How to Have a Successful Team
You know the saying… teamwork makes the dream work. There is no “I” in team. These are clichés for a reason because they are true. When working on a team every player is important. There are no small parts on a team and each role plays a part in leading your team to success.
Working on a team comes with struggles. There are many moving parts due to varying schedules, different communication styles, lack of organization, and more. Here are some tips to help your team get on track for success.
5 Ways How Entrepreneurship Focused Project Based Learning Prepares Students for the Real World
2,000 high schools graduate less than 60% of their students.
50% of students think what they are learning in school is relevant to the real world.
81% of high school dropouts say that relevant, real-world learning would have kept them in school.
It’s time we change the conversation on how we educate our students. As educators, it is our responsibility to send students into the real world with the knowledge they need to succeed. Teaching students entrepreneurship through project based learning takes the way we teach students to the next level. ⠀
5 Tips to Overcoming Presentation Anxiety
You hear the words “presentation” and immediately your heart starts to race. We’ve all been there right? Most of us need a bit more training on calming those fears when presenting to a room of people. You are not alone in this fear and we are here to help ease the presentation anxiety.
Creating Goals: Strategies to Get You Where You Want to Go
Let’s talk goals! Often times, at the start of a project or the start of a new year, you may create goals for yourself. As time passes, you realize you have not completed hardly any of the goals you set out to accomplish. It’s safe to say we have all probably been here. Clearly there are good intentions behind the points you hope to achieve, however, maybe you aren’t giving yourself the right goal. In other words…work smarter not harder. Outlined below are strategies to help you achieve your goals!
Big Ideas from the Virginia Workshop
We’re interviewing the top performing Spirit Box schools, DECA teams and advisors to uncover their challenges to offer solutions and ideas that help your school based enterprise (SBE) succeed. Find out what Webster Groves has been doing to profit $750-800 per month with their Spirit Box vending machine.