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Eastern York SD highlights student-run Shining Knights Cafe as life-skills training
Summary
Eastern York SD showcased a student-run coffee cart that gives life-skills students workplace experience. Principal Emma Feldman said the program, started with a YECO innovation grant and partner Wild Batch Bistro, helps students learn customer service, money skills and time management.
Eastern York SD recognized its students of the month and heard a presentation on a student-run life-skills coffee cart that administrators say is teaching workplace skills to students with disabilities.
"So everything we do at Eastern comes back to our mission," Emma Feldman, high school principal, told the board as she described the Shining Knights Cafe. Feldman said the district used a YECO innovation grant and partnered with Wild Batch Bistro to pilot the coffee cart, which now operates on Fridays from 8 to 10 a.m., currently serving staff while the program works through legal and operational details.
Feldman said the program…
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