The CD program at Arrowhead High School uses an entrepreneurial model to facilitate transition skills for students. This model incorporates three student-run businesses: 1) Café Arrowhead, a student-run restaurant that teaches food service skills like cash handling, food preparation, and customer service. It has expanded to catering. 2) Arrowhead Manufacturing, which teaches woodworking, laser engraving, CNC machining, and mass production skills. 3) Arrowhead Athletics, which provides opportunities for students to participate on sports teams and develop self-esteem, teamwork, and self-advocacy skills. The businesses teach vital independent living and vocational skills to maximize students'

2. The CD program at Arrowhead HS is a hybrid program, which incorporates traditional academics, technology, vocational skills, and transition skills into the student’s curriculum. This is through the development of 3 businesses within the CD program. As per the student’s IEP, they may also be integrated into a variety of regular education classes. An entrepreneurial model is used to tie together skills from all of these areas to maximize the academic, vocational, and independent abilities of the students, which are vital in the post high school setting.

3. ICS Model

4. Our 3 businesses

5. Café Arrowhead - Student run restaurant business designed to develop hard and soft skills

6. Students became known in the school

7. Developed interpersonal relationships with staff, each other, and teachers / administration they wouldn’t normally have contact with (AP teachers, Superintendent etc.)

8. They are their own entity - The students / program are known as “CAFÉ” – NOT CD or Spec Ed.

9. Skills acquired

10. Cash register, money, accounting,

11. Food safety, prep, serving

12. Use of knives and cooking utensils and appliances

13. Replaces traditional “daily living skills” curriculum

14. Learn how to eat right – keep weight down

15. Spin-off

16. Catering – Administrative lunches, girls track dinner, transition night,

17. Lobster Boil – Served over 800 people from the community last year, have been doing the fundraiser for 13 years

18. Opens up employment options in the community – employment at Pizza Hut, Hospital food service, Panera

19. Arrowhead Manufacturing – Student run business emphasizing the production of wood products, laser engraving and CNC machining

20. Began in the tech ed class as one of their regular ed electives

21. Resulted from student interest inventory

22. Skills acquired

23. Use of hand tools, power tools, machines & jigs

24. Assembly

25. Mass production

26. Shop safety

27. Measurement

28. Community employment with mass production skill

29. Arrowhead Athletics – Technically this was the first student run business with participation in 3 sports at the state, national and international levels

30. Track, Volleyball, Snowshoeing, Gymnastics, Track

31. It transcends all barriers

32. Gets immediate recognition in a high school

33. Develops self-esteem

34. Team building

35. Self advocacy

36. Club Arrowhead – Use of biomechanics – OT, PT, Proprioceptive skills

37. Who’s Who

38. Area, Regional, State, National and International level

39. Public Speaking – Wide World of Sports

40. Job Olympics LEAPP - getting the job / transition skills to work in these 3 businesses

41. 17 events

42. 18 regional schools from 3 counties

43. Judges are from local agencies – DR, DPI, WCTC, community business people, training centers, county staff.

44. Skills Acquired

45. Punctuality

46. Work ethic & citizenship

47. People skills & interaction

48. National food service

49. Woods Safety test

50. Café Business Plan

51. Vision Statement

52. Integration into regular ed. classes

53. Types of classes – modifications

54. Wide variety of electives – Electives are used as a hands on job exploration activity for 6 years

55. Woodworking / CNC - Steve

56. Integration of support staff

57. SpeechLang

58. Vision mobility

59. Teaching Assistants

60. Use of Technology

61. Computers

62. Smart board

63. iPods – New Program

64. Kindle Readers

65. What do you need to do to get a business started:

66. Skill level of students

67. Assess your environment

68. Market survey – What will sell - goods / services

69. Staff commitment

70. What do you do with the profits

71. Computer / technology for the program

72. iPods

73. team trips – hotels, restaurants, equipment

74. Disney trip

75. Developing a Winning Mindset

76. How to be a successful teacher/ coach / employer

77. How to develop successful students/ athletes / employees

78. How to develop successful support staff

79. How to develop a successful academic program / sports team / business

80. Post Secondary placement – The basic skills learned in our business transfer to both types of employment. It makes placements much easier because the students have skills that transcend the traditional special ed world.

81. List where you have students employed

82. Technical college

83. Competitive employment

84. Supported employment

85. Training centers

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