Hello! I teach Moderate and Severe Disabilities at Lawrence County High School. With our Transition Innovation Grant we will be starting a school store. Our store will serve popcorn, slushies and cappuccinos.
Our students participate in the CO-Op program, but our community is small and we are limited in the placement of jobs outside the school. Students with moderate and severe disabilities need real life educational experiences in order to be equipped for successful employment and transition to post-secondary life and to complete the college and career ready expectations for the Alternate Assessment. These students need intensive drill and practice to master skills and this will only occur if the high school educational setting is equipped to provide real life practice.
With the creation of our school store, the students will be involved in all aspects of the store including marketing, budgeting, financing, preparation, operation of machines, money skills, cash register, scanning operations, sales, daily management and sales. They will rotate through all tasks involved to develop a variety of work place skills.
We have been blessed and been given a popcorn machine and two slushie machines. We have ordered a point of sale cash register system and cappuccino machine. This is a great opportunity for the students to have real life tasks that will enable them to practice and build work place skills, self confidence and problem solving skills.