The students that participate in the Ag classes have a project in which complete records are kept as well as work done with the project. Springville High School students create Web pages and them market them to local businesses for a donation to the Web publishing class or to a Scholarship fund. Information from Promising Practices for Connecting Schools with the Real World , Edited by W. E. Blank and Sandra Harwell, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, March, 1997. L one Peak STC Site plans to continue to expand the number of school-based enterprises at the high school level. M ountain View STC Site is excited about doing more of these kinds of activities and providing inservice to teachers on ways to incorporate additional work-based activities into their curriculum.
Students are to be involved in various work-based learning situations at the school site.
Encouragement to all teachers to tie their curriculum to an actual enterprise will be a future goal. P rovo City School District plans to evaluate and improve existing programs. Also inservice staff on opportunities for school-based enterprises. T o implement the mini community at the elementary and give students the opportunity of operating the mini community. Students will be aware of all of the careers and jobs that are necessary in making the community run.