
Spirit Box Tips & Tricks
We share ongoing updates, ideas and solutions from other Spirit Box school stores.

Advisor Corner: Building Community in the Classroom
If you are feeling like the year is just flying by like I am, I found another short video from Edutopia that may help with building community within the classroom. As a teacher I am always striving to provide peer-to-peer collaboration for learning.

Advisor Corner: What Have Our Students Learn During the Pandemic?
Tips from Spirit Box Advisor Dave Perreira! Practical advice to engage your students and make your classroom planning easier.

Is Learning Just for the Classroom? Literacy in the 21st Century Explained
Literacy is more than just reading in the 21st century. As technology has advanced our literacy skills have become more diversified: information, media, and technology literacy.

Critical Thinking in the 21st Century
"Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action" - (Scriven, 1996)

Fact or Fiction? Can Anyone be Creative?
The purpose of using Creativity in the real world is to think outside the box, take calculated risks, and effectively problem solve in their career. Creativity is the act of channeling imagination into something concrete. Many people associate creativity with being an artist but creativity is applicable to any job.

Learning to Collaborate in the 21st Century
Collaboration in business and life is essential for success in the real world. Every day, we interact with a variety of different people, whether it is a cashier at a coffee shop, a coworker, our family, or classmates. Collaboration is to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor (Miriam-Webster). This definition can expand to many situations.

The Beginner's Guide: Growing a Business
The overarching goals of growth marketing are common goals for any business to retain existing customers, acquire new customers, and increase profits. In order to do these things, they must reach these customers.

Free Resource Highlights
Each week, we create new articles and free worksheets to help students learn about business and apply it to their School Based Enterprise or Spirit Box. Below we have compiled all of our resources in one easy to access location.

Spirit Box Academy: Curriculum Overview
Within Spirit Box Academy, there are 3 units, 5 modules within each unit, and a growing lesson library around each module. Under each module there are lesson plans, activities, PowerPoints, worksheets, case studies, and blog posts. Within the module there are level 1 (introduction to the concepts) and level 2 (advanced students who are applying what they have learned to their Spirit Box or School Based Enterprise) lessons.
Annual Spirit Team Revenue Report: 2020-2021 School Year
Between all of our Spirit Box schools, our community made over $130,000 across the country. All of this money staying in your schools and going towards your programming. Congratulations on an amazing year even with the bumps along the way!