The Four Tendencies personality framework, as developed by Gretchen Rubin, allows insight into one's typical responses to both inner expectations (e.g., a personal goal like a New Year's Resolution) and outer expectations (e.g., a request from a classmate or coworker). While the Four Tendencies could be applied to many concepts within the…

Providing a degree of service to both students and faculty, the school-store concept offers educational relevance rarely achieved in other departments of the comprehensive modern high school. (Author)

High school distributive education retail laboratories (school stores) provide practical experiences in an actual store environment. The manual presents information to assist coordinators in creating a distributive education retail laboratory or for improving an existing operation. Sections include preparing proposals to start a school store,…

This project is a program of the Hood River Valley (Oregon) Opportunity School, a half-day alternative school attended by at-risk students. The project's objective is to teach fundamental academics through a practical experience in setting up and running a small business: the wholesale purchasing and retail mail-order sales of wildflower seeds.…

This instructor's guide is designed to accompany self-paced student training modules on the Parts Counter Trade. Introductory materials include an introduction to pre-apprenticeship training, and a course outline. Teaching outlines are then provided for the 11 modules that comprise this course. For each module some or all of this material may be…