What We Do

Our goals are to teach students responsibility, confidence, and resiliency.

We focus on:

• job skills such as resume writing, interviewing, working through a shift (stamina), telling time, what to wear, assembly, electronics, programming, how to self-advocate, calling in late or sick, counting money

• social skills, such as introducing yourself and conversations with friends and strangers

• riding the bus - skills include telling time, reading maps, bus schedules, planning, how to get help, safe strangers

• exploring careers, such as local opportunities in areas of interest

• community resources for housing, care, and jobs

Currently students spend 2.25 hours a day with a 15 minute break at a simulated work station on a rotational basis. Some students work at modified STEM stations which allow students to explore simulated electric circuits, 3-D mechanical assembly projects to improve hand-eye coordination, interpreting instructions and drawings, and manipulating 3 dimensional parts.

We also want to give a huge THANK YOU to our local business partners who give us their materials with which we learn, including:

• Crown Bees - we assemble bee homes, load them in boxes, label, and box into transportation boxes

• Port of Edmonds - assemble destination bags for people for guest moorers

• Verdant Health - assemble promotional items for health fairs

• Bowl Buddies - cut fabric for hot pads

• Rotary Club of Edmonds - fill Easter Eggs with candy for their annual Easter Egg Hunt

• Tubie Friends - stuffed animals that demonstrate to sick children what will happen during a procedure

• Cast For Kids - assembling fishing poles for introducing kids to fishing at the Greenlake Derby

• Nurturing Pathways - assemble various manipulatives for children's movement classes

• Toulouse Petit Restaurant - fold napkins

• Science Materials Center - assemble science kits for the Edmonds School District

• Foundation for Edmonds School District - STEM kits (see Breaking News), and assemble mailings

Donors Choose allows us to professionalize our coffee cart!

We are pleased to say we successfully completed a project with Donors Choose and Teacher Debra Sand. The items we got will allow us to show off our partner companies, make our coffee cart look more professional, give us space to add more work stations, teach students to ride the bus and tell time, and clarify instructional materials. Thank you to all the Donors Choose donors who gave generously - we could not do this important work without you!

[Published January 2018]