BUILDING TRADES -This is a special education program for students to develop construction trade skills. Enrollment is by placement of the special education staff or IEP teams. Some non-special education students are enrolled by permission of the administration and instructor. The class is usually 50% special education and 50% regular education. (BT is a requirement for alternative graduation requirements)
GREENHOUSE - This class consists of a fall course and a spring course. In the fall, students will be learning shop safety, tool identification, and measurement, which they will then use to build plant stands, containers and furniture out of locally harvested willow. In the spring, students will learn how seeds germinate, what is needed to grow plants successfully and plant identification and care. Students will experience first hand working in a production greenhouse as well as making sells to the public. Students will learn to make change and run a cash register. Enrollment in this class by instructor / counselor permission only.
Students will learn to care for indoor plants in the Middle School Commons area. Watering, fertilizing, insect identification and treatment, and transplanting are some of things students will experience in this class as well as participating in the greenhouse classes on the days they are not caring for plants. (Enrollment by instructor / counselor permission only).
GREENHOUSE ADMINISTRATION - This class is the business side of running the greenhouse. Students enrolled in the class help select plants to be grown that year as well as learn the purchasing process for both plants and supplies. Students create a planting chart and a plant list, which is needed for scheduling planting and selling items from the greenhouse, as well as recruit and organize volunteers who water the greenhouse on weekends. Course participants also learn to create invoices for purchases and make a catalog of items available that year. Students enrolled in this class need computer skills in Word and Excel. There is a maximum of 3 instructor / counselor approved students per class.
WORK STUDY - (BY PRINCIPAL APPROVAL ONLY) Students enrolled in work-study will have the opportunity to gain experience working at a job in the community. The student will get high school credit and the grade will be pass/fail. The business will pay the student’s paycheck. Enrollment in this class will require the student to apply and go through the hiring procedure on his or her own. This means that the student will have to apply for the job by filling out an application and possibly go through the interview process to get hired by that business BEFORE a student will be enrolled. This class may be more than one class period. The student is responsible for copying and turning in copies of the time card for attendance verification to the principal every two weeks. If the student gets fired or for any reason no long has their job, the student will receive an F for those class periods and no credit for the whole semester. The student will also then be placed in regular on campus courses for the remainder of that semester.
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