Business Essentials (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
Other Kansas CTE sets
- Visual Arts: Grades Pre-K, K, 1, 2
- Visual Arts: Grades 3, 4
- Visual Arts: Grades 5, 6, 7, 8
- Introduction to Family and Consumer Sciences: Middle Level
- 21st Century Journalism (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Ag Entrepreneurship (2018)
- Ag Leadership/Communications (2018)
- Ag Welding (2018)
- Agricultural Science (2018)
- Anatomy & Physiology (2025-2026)
- Animal Science (2013)
- Audio/Video Production Fundamentals (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Baking & Pastry I 16056 (2025)
- Business Communications
- Career & Life Planning 19258 (2023)
- Career and Community Connections (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Career and Life Planning (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- CCTC Career Ready Practices
- Commercial Graphic Design (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Computer Applications (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Consumer and Personal Finance A (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Consumer and Personal Finance B (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Culinary Arts I 16053 (2025)
- Culinary Arts II 16055 (2025)
- Culinary Essentials 16052 (2025)
- Digital Media (30150): Grade 9-12
- Digital Media Design and Production (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Digital Media Technology (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Early Childhood Applications (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Education and Training: Teaching as a Career
- Entrepreneurship (2009): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Essentials of Interior and Textile Design (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Family Studies 19255 (2023)
- Family Studies A (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Family Studies B (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Foundations in Early Childhood Education (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Foundations to Early Childhood Development 19052 (2025)
- Graphic Design (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Graphic Design Fundamentals (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Horticulture (2018)
- Human Growth & Development - The Early Years (2025)
- Human Growth and Development A (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Human Growth and Development B (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Interior and Textile Design Studio (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Interior and Textile Merchandising (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Introduction to Agriculture (2018)
- Introduction to Family and Consumer Sciences (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Introduction to Human Services (2009): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Marketing (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Marketing Workplace Experience (2022)
- Media and Public Relations (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Media Technology–Workplace Experience (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Nutrition and Wellness A (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Nutrition and Wellness B (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Orientation in Early Childhood Education (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Orientation to Early Childhood Development 19051
- Photo Imaging (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Photo Imaging: High School
- Plant & Soil Science (2018)
- Principles of Illustration (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Principles of Marketing (2022)
- Project Management and Resource Scheduling (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Sports/Entertainment Marketing (2022)
- Trends in Interior and Textile Design (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Video Production (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Visual Arts: Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Baking and Pastry I - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34057
- Baking and Pastry II - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34059
- Business Essentials (2025)
- Career and Life Planning - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course: #22207
- Career Connections - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course: #22275
- Community Connections - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course Code: #22270
- Culinary Applications - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34250
- Culinary Arts 1 - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34056
- Culinary Arts II - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34058
- Culinary Essentials - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 16051
- Entrepreneurship (2025)
- Event Planning and Management - Hospitality and Tourism Career Cluster - Course # 34052
- Food Science - Kansas Family and Consumer Sciences Education - Course #: 22203
- Foundations of Travel and Tourism - Hospitality and Tourism Career Cluster - Course KCCMS #: 34053
- Introduction to Family and Consumer Sciences - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course: #22207
- Nutrition and Wellness - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course: #08057
- Web Design (2024)
Other Kansas CTE sets
- Visual Arts: Grades Pre-K, K, 1, 2
- Visual Arts: Grades 3, 4
- Visual Arts: Grades 5, 6, 7, 8
- Introduction to Family and Consumer Sciences: Middle Level
- 21st Century Journalism (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Ag Entrepreneurship (2018)
- Ag Leadership/Communications (2018)
- Ag Welding (2018)
- Agricultural Science (2018)
- Anatomy & Physiology (2025-2026)
- Animal Science (2013)
- Audio/Video Production Fundamentals (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Baking & Pastry I 16056 (2025)
- Business Communications
- Career & Life Planning 19258 (2023)
- Career and Community Connections (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Career and Life Planning (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- CCTC Career Ready Practices
- Commercial Graphic Design (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Computer Applications (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Consumer and Personal Finance A (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Consumer and Personal Finance B (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Culinary Arts I 16053 (2025)
- Culinary Arts II 16055 (2025)
- Culinary Essentials 16052 (2025)
- Digital Media (30150): Grade 9-12
- Digital Media Design and Production (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Digital Media Technology (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Early Childhood Applications (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Education and Training: Teaching as a Career
- Entrepreneurship (2009): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Essentials of Interior and Textile Design (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Family Studies 19255 (2023)
- Family Studies A (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Family Studies B (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Foundations in Early Childhood Education (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Foundations to Early Childhood Development 19052 (2025)
- Graphic Design (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Graphic Design Fundamentals (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Horticulture (2018)
- Human Growth & Development - The Early Years (2025)
- Human Growth and Development A (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Human Growth and Development B (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Interior and Textile Design Studio (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Interior and Textile Merchandising (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Introduction to Agriculture (2018)
- Introduction to Family and Consumer Sciences (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Introduction to Human Services (2009): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Marketing (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Marketing Workplace Experience (2022)
- Media and Public Relations (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Media Technology–Workplace Experience (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Nutrition and Wellness A (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Nutrition and Wellness B (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Orientation in Early Childhood Education (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Orientation to Early Childhood Development 19051
- Photo Imaging (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Photo Imaging: High School
- Plant & Soil Science (2018)
- Principles of Illustration (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Principles of Marketing (2022)
- Project Management and Resource Scheduling (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Sports/Entertainment Marketing (2022)
- Trends in Interior and Textile Design (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Video Production (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Visual Arts: Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Baking and Pastry I - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34057
- Baking and Pastry II - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34059
- Business Essentials (2025)
- Career and Life Planning - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course: #22207
- Career Connections - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course: #22275
- Community Connections - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course Code: #22270
- Culinary Applications - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34250
- Culinary Arts 1 - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34056
- Culinary Arts II - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34058
- Culinary Essentials - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 16051
- Entrepreneurship (2025)
- Event Planning and Management - Hospitality and Tourism Career Cluster - Course # 34052
- Food Science - Kansas Family and Consumer Sciences Education - Course #: 22203
- Foundations of Travel and Tourism - Hospitality and Tourism Career Cluster - Course KCCMS #: 34053
- Introduction to Family and Consumer Sciences - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course: #22207
- Nutrition and Wellness - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course: #08057
- Web Design (2024)
Business Law
Describe the nature of legally binding contracts
Identify regulatory agencies and regulatory legislation
Understand the civil foundations of the legal environment of business to demonstrate knowledge of contracts
Identify types of business ownership
Communication Skills
Apply verbal skills to obtain and convey information
Participate in group discussions
Make oral presentations
Organize information
Select and use appropriate graphic aids
Write internal and external business correspondence to convey and obtain information effectively
Identify the elements of effective written communications
Prepare simple written reports
Utilize appropriate etiquette in written communications
Customer Relations
Understands the techniques and strategies used to foster positive-ongoing relationships with customers
Explain a customer-service mindset
Respond to customer inquiries and complaints
Interpret business policies to customers/clients
Understand the nature of customer relationship management
Explain the role of ethics in customer relationship
Introduction to Economics
Understand the nature of business to show its contributions to society
Identify the concept of economic resources
Describe the concepts of economics and economic activities
Identify the principles of supply and demand
Identify the role of business in society
Describe types of business activities
Identify the characteristics of private enterprise
Identify factors affecting a business's profit
Determine factors affecting business risk
Identify the concept of productivity
Identify the concept of Gross Domestic Product
Identify and describe business cycles
Identify types of Economic Systems
Emotional Intelligence
Develop personal traits to foster career advancement
Identify desirable personality traits important to business
Discuss ethics, responsibility, honest, integrity, and work habits
Exhibit cultural sensitivity
Explain the nature of effective communications
Implement teamwork techniques to accomplish goals
Participate as a team member
Entrepreneurship
Discuss entrepreneurial discovery strategies to generate feasible ideas for business ventures
Explain the need for entrepreneurial discovery
Discuss entrepreneurial discovery processes
Assess global trends and opportunities for business ventures
Describe entrepreneurial planning considerations
Financial Analysis
Explain forms of financial exchange
Explain the time value of money
Explain the purposes and importance of credit
Manage personal finances to achieve financial goals with savings and investing
Develop personal budget
Interpret a pay stub
Read and reconcile bank statements
Maintain financial records
Describe sources of income -- wages/salaries, interest, rent, dividends, transfer payments, etc.
Information Management
Use information literacy skills to increase workplace efficiency and effectiveness
Assess information needs
Evaluate quality and source of information
Utilize information-technology tools to manage and perform work responsibilities
Identify ways that technology impacts business
Explain the role of information systems
Demonstrate basic email functions
Demonstrate basic research skills
Demonstrate basic database applications
Demonstrate basic spreadsheet applications
Marketing
Understand marketing's role and function in business to facilitate economic exchanges with customers
Explain marketing and its importance in global economy
Describe marketing functions and related activities
Acquire foundational knowledge of customer, client, and business behavior to understand what motivates decision-making
Explain customer, client, business buying behavior
Identify elements of the marketing mix
Professional Development
Discuss appropriate personal appearance
Set personal goals
Utilize critical-thinking skills to determine best options/outcomes
Demonstrate problem-solving skills
Use time-management skills
Understands concepts tools and strategies used to explore, obtain, and develop in a business career (ex. Kansas Career Pipeline)
Frequently asked questions
- What grade levels do these standards cover?
- Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, and Grade 12
- When were these standards adopted?
- 2011
- Where can I read the official document?
- Business Essentials
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More Kansas CTE sets
CTE- Visual Arts: Grades Pre-K, K, 1, 2
- Visual Arts: Grades 3, 4
- Visual Arts: Grades 5, 6, 7, 8
- Introduction to Family and Consumer Sciences: Middle Level
- 21st Century Journalism (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Ag Entrepreneurship (2018)
- Ag Leadership/Communications (2018)
- Ag Welding (2018)
- Agricultural Science (2018)
- Anatomy & Physiology (2025-2026)
- Animal Science (2013)
- Audio/Video Production Fundamentals (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Baking & Pastry I 16056 (2025)
- Business Communications
- Career & Life Planning 19258 (2023)
- Career and Community Connections (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Career and Life Planning (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- CCTC Career Ready Practices
- Commercial Graphic Design (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Computer Applications (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Consumer and Personal Finance A (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Consumer and Personal Finance B (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Culinary Arts I 16053 (2025)
- Culinary Arts II 16055 (2025)
- Culinary Essentials 16052 (2025)
- Digital Media (30150): Grade 9-12
- Digital Media Design and Production (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Digital Media Technology (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Early Childhood Applications (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Education and Training: Teaching as a Career
- Entrepreneurship (2009): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Essentials of Interior and Textile Design (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Family Studies 19255 (2023)
- Family Studies A (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Family Studies B (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Foundations in Early Childhood Education (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Foundations to Early Childhood Development 19052 (2025)
- Graphic Design (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Graphic Design Fundamentals (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Horticulture (2018)
- Human Growth & Development - The Early Years (2025)
- Human Growth and Development A (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Human Growth and Development B (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Interior and Textile Design Studio (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Interior and Textile Merchandising (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Introduction to Agriculture (2018)
- Introduction to Family and Consumer Sciences (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Introduction to Human Services (2009): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Marketing (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Marketing Workplace Experience (2022)
- Media and Public Relations (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Media Technology–Workplace Experience (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Nutrition and Wellness A (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Nutrition and Wellness B (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Orientation in Early Childhood Education (2010): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Orientation to Early Childhood Development 19051
- Photo Imaging (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Photo Imaging: High School
- Plant & Soil Science (2018)
- Principles of Illustration (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Principles of Marketing (2022)
- Project Management and Resource Scheduling (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Sports/Entertainment Marketing (2022)
- Trends in Interior and Textile Design (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Video Production (2011): Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Visual Arts: Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
- Baking and Pastry I - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34057
- Baking and Pastry II - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34059
- Business Essentials (2025)
- Career and Life Planning - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course: #22207
- Career Connections - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course: #22275
- Community Connections - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course Code: #22270
- Culinary Applications - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34250
- Culinary Arts 1 - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34056
- Culinary Arts II - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 34058
- Culinary Essentials - Kansas Hospitality and Tourism Cluster - Course #: 16051
- Entrepreneurship (2025)
- Event Planning and Management - Hospitality and Tourism Career Cluster - Course # 34052
- Food Science - Kansas Family and Consumer Sciences Education - Course #: 22203
- Foundations of Travel and Tourism - Hospitality and Tourism Career Cluster - Course KCCMS #: 34053
- Introduction to Family and Consumer Sciences - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course: #22207
- Nutrition and Wellness - Kansas Human Services Cluster - Course: #08057
- Web Design (2024)
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Kansas- Computer Science10 sets
- CTE: Construction and Design Pathway27 sets
- Early Learning8 sets
- English Language Arts11 sets
- Financial Literacy9 sets
- Fine Arts25 sets
- Handwriting2 sets
- Health Education4 sets
- History, Government, and Social Studies Standards8 sets
- Library and Informational Literacy5 sets
- Mathematics12 sets
- Physical Education6 sets
- Science8 sets
- Social-Emotional Character Development4 sets
- World Language Standards1 set