I was hired to teach kids at our school to become entrepreneurs. The owner of my school, who’s an entrepreneur, hired me in part because I’ve had so much experience with startups. Perhaps I’ve had too much: I had a sea of ideas swarming in my head.

I struggled. How to prune them down? Surely, I thought, someone’s figured this out before.

I put out word in my networks, and a friend who’s a venture capitalist asked me if I’d heard of KidEntrepreneurship.com.

I love using it. KidEntrepreneurship.com is a gem of a curriculum. It’s nothing but the beautiful basics of startups: like how to define a product, understand your ideal customer, choose a marketing strategy — the stuff a lot of adults find obvious, but kids find totally perplexing.

It’s simple. It’s utterly easy to use. It’s fun to riff off of, too, if you want to add more of your own personality.

As a teacher, I appreciate how kids learn not just by hearing other people’s stories (though they do that!), but by planning a business themselves, step-by-step, down to the final pitch.

Any teacher can use this, and any kid can benefit from it.