Management and Entrepreneurship
Driving Business Success Across All Industries: The Management and Entrepreneurship Career Cluster involves skills and occupations that are essential across all industries, focusing on business administration, operations optimization, strategic planning, workforce management, and entrepreneurship. It merges key areas such as data management and analysis, human resources, general operations, administrative support, project management, and organizational leadership. This Cluster ensures that businesses across all industries efficiently meet their goals, adapt to market changes, and maintain competitive advantage. By emphasizing entrepreneurship, this Cluster supports the creation of new ventures, driving economic growth and innovation and making it a cornerstone of modern economies.
Pathway Design Sheets
Pathway Design Sheets are Kansas CTE guides that act like blueprints, showing the required and optional courses, the skills students must learn, and the order in which classes should be taken to meet state pathway standards. They also include industry‑aligned competencies, CIP codes, and program requirements that help schools design and maintain approved pathways, ensure curriculum matches Kansas expectations, and support compliance with Perkins funding and improvement planning.
Teacher Resources
Kansas BPA: Business Professionals of America is the leading CTSO for students pursuing careers in business management, office administration, information technology and other related career fields. For more information please visit the Kansas BPA website.
Kansas DECA: DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers around the world in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management. For more information please visit the Kansas DECA website.
Kansas FBLA: Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) education association with a quarter million students preparing for careers in business and business-related fields. For more information please visit the Kansas FBLA website.
Kansas FFA: Future Farmers of America makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. For more information please visit the Kansas FFA website.
Kansas HOSA: HOSA develops leadership and technical skill competencies through a program of motivation, awareness and recognition, which is an integral part of the Health Science Education instructional program. For more information please visit the Kansas HOSA website.
SkillsUSA Kansas: SkillsUSA improves the quality of America's workforce through a structured program of citizenship, leadership, employability, technical and professional skills training. SkillsUSA helps each student excel. For more information please visit the SkillsUSA Kansas website.
