We treat the ability to build something from nothing as a literacy, not an extracurricular. Seeking out a real problem, prototyping a rough solution, and defending it with evidence in front of a skeptical audience is as foundational to the next century as reading comprehension was to the last one — and we teach it with the same rigor.
The mechanism is the S.P.A.R.K. framework applied to a real microbusiness project: Seek a problem a Dreamer actually cares about in their own community, Play with cheap, low-stakes prototypes before committing to one, Apply a working version to real customers or users, Research what held up and what didn't, and Know the venture well enough to teach someone else how to build it. Every stage lands in a student's DreamTrack portfolio as auditable, verifiable evidence — not a grade, a body of work.
The next century's workforce needs builders as much as it needs employees. Entrepreneurial literacy compounds the same way AI fluency and computational thinking do: it feeds directly into the broader pipeline toward the frontier industries — AI, aerospace, advanced computing — that will define what comes next.
