Name: Real-Life Vocational Experience: Student-Managed Businesses
Start: 2025-02-14T09:20:00-0600
End: 2025-02-14T10:05:00-0600

Friday February 14, 2025 9:20am - 10:05am CST

Room C205

This informative session will focus on how to develop student-led businesses that provide real-life, hands on, job skills and promote social awareness among the students’ peers, staff, and community members. By working outside of the classroom setting, students improve their generalization of skills learned in class. We will explore how to start a student managed business from the ground up incorporating real life business practices; from budgeting, shopping for supplies, advertising, customer service, communication skills and more. Mundelein High School has had two different successful business endeavors in the past six years, the MHS Drink Oasis (students making and selling milkshakes and smoothies) and Mustang Mornings (students making and selling frappes, hot coffee, and other beverages to staff). Presenters will be providing curricular examples and resources participants can use to begin their own vocational classroom business.

Speakers

Maureen Baker

Special Education Teacher, Mundelein High School

I have been working at Mundelein High School for over 18 years. I was asked to start the district’s first life skills, functionally based program that we named, The Supported Learning Program. Morgan Spitz and I started the program together in the fall of 2007. We have started 2... Read More →

Heather Ryan

Morgan Spitz

Friday February 14, 2025 9:20am - 10:05am CST
Room C205 1350 W Hawley St, Mundelein, IL 60060

Fine Arts

Lake County Institute Day 2025 Grade 6-12/K-12 Fine Arts/ K-12 Librarians

Maureen Baker

Heather Ryan

Morgan Spitz

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