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Southwest Preparatory School http://www.swprep.org

Southwest Preparatory School

1258 Austin Highway

San Antonio, TX 78209Map this

Southwest Preparatory School is an open-enrollment charter school district with four campuses across San Antonio, serving nearly 900 high school students. We are focused on workforce education and preparing all students to be productive citizens, family members and workers. We offer self-paced...

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Name: Randy Adkins
Position: District Job Developer
Email: randy.adkins@swprep.org

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Tryout Program - Free Trial Period for Employers...The Tryout Program is an extension of Career Preparation for students 17 and older that allows employers to hire students and give them a tryout in a position before they place them on their payroll. After a one week orientation period, the school will pay the student the Federal Youth Minimum Wage for 90 calendar days of satisfactory employment at no cost to the employer. After satisfactory completion of this tryout, the employer would agree to add the student worker to their regular payroll. A similar program, the School-to-Work Program offers 16 year olds a chance to work with non-profit organizations in a mutually beneficial relationship which provides work skills while serving the community.
Volunteer OpportunitiesTuesday, October 27, 2009 - Monday, May 31, 2010We post volunteer opportunities on Volunteermatch.com. If you would like to talk to us about other ideas or something that isn't listed, please contact us. Our students need support and assistance to become self-sufficient adults and we welcome your ideas.
Basic tools and equipment for Service Team for studentsWe need basic tools such as shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows, as well as safety equipment such as gloves, safety glasses and rain ponchos. Our students will be working in the neighborhood to improve conditions and build relationships with our neighbors. We need your help to get the equipment needed to provide this educational and character-building activity.
Financial Support We need your support to provide life-changing programs and opportunities for our students. Our website has a secure link which allows you to use a credit card to donate. We thank you for your consideration and hope that you will choose to make a difference in the lives of our students. Thank you!
Southwest Preparatory School Gets to Work!Truly benefitting local businesses while serving students is a worthy goal and Southwest Prep is actively looking for partners in direct educational pipelines. In other words, educational programs within their high school campuses that train specifically for jobs and lead directly to those jobs upon satisfactory completion. Employers need skilled workers and educational institutions mean well, but a more direct relationship is the key to successfully providing workers who walk out of high school with a diploma AND the specific skills needed to obtain high-potential jobs. These partnerships take effort to develop but once created serve a real need especially times of higher than average unemployment. These forward-thinking and proactive approaches prevent dropout and increase student engagement and achievement. Regardless of a student’s ability or academic aspirations, the truth is that they must have job skills to be successful. Even students who will one day become engineers, doctors, lawyers or other “white collar” workers will benefit from these programs. Southwest Preparatory School has the students but they need to find partners who are committed to working toward a successful job pipeline program. Southwest Prep is proactively creating opportunities for students to learn real-world skills. A pilot program at its Northeast Campus on Austin Highway is aptly named the “Service Team.” What started as an idea to get students involved in helping local businesses stay graffiti-free has become a program to start a school-based business which will not only build goodwill in the community but will teach students entrepreneurial skills and show them how a small business runs. Students will be involved in every part of the process and will rotate through the various functions of the business. The entrepreneurial spirit is a powerful force that drives change in every human endeavor and applies to every academic and career aspiration. Mentors, donors and other corporate sponsors are needed to support the program and provide learning opportunities.
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