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The Den will function as an extension of the academic classroom during the school day and as a club during non-school hours, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michael VanDenburg of Renu Contracting Services donated $5,000 to help students kick off the store. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The store will be run by students with disabilities participating in the school\u2019s RISE work study program as well as mainstream students who will serve as peer partners. It will help students sharpen their vocational skills to be successful employees in the future, Ms. Von Eschen said. The store is a \u201csafe haven\u201d for the students to practice their skills, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey\u2019re really working on functional academic skills and career development as part of their curriculum,\u201d she said. \u201cThe store is going to give them a setting to take skills they learn in the classroom and generalize it into a real-world setting and then from here, learn how to take it from our school store really into the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are currently over 12 students that will be contributing to the school store and cycling through other vocational learning opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSome will work in more front-facing roles, others will be doing things a little bit more behind the scenes, but over time our goal is to have all of the students be able to be comfortable in all of those different facets,\u201d Mr. Pugliese said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The school store is open Tuesday through Thursday from 6:45 to 8 a.m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently the store offers breakfast snacks, Mr. Pugliese said. They hope to eventually be able to offer school spirit wear and school supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
District Superintendent Gerard Poole said this also helps spread school spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHaving a school store and the colors and a place to gather, it\u2019s not just the vocational aspects of it but it also brings some energy and vibrancy to the school, which is really important for the school day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Poole also thanked teachers Cailtin Gould and Matthew Millheiser, who he said are going \u201cabove and beyond\u201d and are going to be working with students to keep the school store operational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI thank them for their energy, the program is going to be successful and grow and become something more and more fantastic every year because of the teachers that are leading that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Pugliese said the district is very grateful to be able to have these types of opportunities for their students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis comes together because we have a district office administration, we have a Board of Education that are always so forward-thinking,\u201d he said. \u201cThis was something that has gone through so many different permutations that when we saw the opportunity to enhance what already is a very strong program \u2014 the fact that everybody jumped on it and championed it, just speaks volumes to what we\u2019re all able to do when everyone recognizes what\u2019s in the best interest of kids.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Along with marking the Shoreham-Wading River Central School District\u2019s 50th anniversary, the district is celebrating by creating something new for its students: a new school store for the first time in at least two decades. The high school held a ribbon cutting for the grand opening of the school store last Thursday. According to principal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1922,"featured_media":118421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1743,381],"tags":[13186,3968,10900],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-118420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-featured-story","category-shoreham-wading-river-school-district","tag-premium","tag-shoreham-wading-river-school","tag-shoreham-wading-river"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n