2025-26  Work Experience Application

This application is for use by the WA/TPP Teacher only. Students are eligible for paid work experience beginning their junior year of high school. Each year, the WA teacher is given an approved number of students who can be placed in the community for a specific number of work hours for the school year. This is based on the total work experience budget available in the grant, projected placements of juniors and seniors at the site, and the site's past placement history and utilization of funding.               

For the 2025-26 year, approved students will have 30 hours through the WA grant that will be utilized first; if they are also TPP,  they are eligible for 120 additional hours through a DOR authorization request process that must be in place before the hours can be used at the worksite.

Students can work up to 15 hours per week and cannot work exclusively on weekends. 

Each WA/TPP teacher is responsible for the following:

• Submit a completed work experience application with signatures required from the student, parent, teacher, and worksite supervisor;

• Complete work experience prerequisites for students new to work experience (submit copies marked with * to Teresa Erickson at SELPA, along with the Work Experience Application):

  • • • Demonstrate good school attendance

      • Resume ***

      • Master application ***

      • Vocational interest assessment results ***

      • Learning style assessment results ***

      • Training on how to find & keep a job
        Interview preparation & practice

      • Review of WAI Student Safety Handbook 

• Worksite Supervisors not previously cleared must pass a live scan fingerprint background check before the student starts the job. Once the application is received, Teresa contacts the Worksite Supervisor to arrange for live scan and will notify you when they've cleared and the student can begin working.

• Process student Wage Claims for each pay period, which runs from the 20th to the 19th of each month; they are due to SELPA by the 23rd of each month.

• Maintaining fiscal responsibility and monitoring the approved maximum number of hours each student can work.