Work+Study+Component

**Work/Study Component**

The Franklin School Alternative Program provides a work/study component that requires students to pursue community-based experiences that provide opportunities to practice appropriate levels of responsibility, accountability, respect, community service and academic scholarship. It is the program’s philosophy that student will be successful in their adult lives when they develop these traits and skills.

Students earn academic credit for experience and participation in one or a combination of the following options:


 * 1) Working 20 hours or more per week in a paying job.
 * 2) Volunteering 16 hours or more per week in the community at a nonprofit organization.
 * 3) Attending two classes at Edward Little High School.
 * 4) Attending a trades-related program at Lewiston Regional Vocational Center or Lewiston Alternative Vocational Center.
 * 5) Attending two extra classes at Franklin School.
 * 6) Attending an approved program at the variety of academic institutions in the area.
 * 7) Participating in an apprenticeship or job-shadowing experience.
 * 8) Attending counseling, support groups or participating in other personal growth and development activities for 7 to 10 hours per week.
 * 9) Participating in other experiences that can be documented as appropriate learning opportunities.

//Credits awarded at the end of the semester for classes taken as the work/student options will be // //determined by the grade earned in those classes. //
 * //Notes about classes used at work/student credit //**

Student have the first two weeks of their new schedule to attend classes at Edward Little, Franklin or <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Lewiston and/or to exercise one of the other work options. After the two weeks, they must declare their work/study option choice. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">They may choose to: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Student who from then on switch from classes to work will need to coordinate with <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">the work/study coordinator. The grade from the first option will become the grade for the replacement options. Students who want to switch from work to classes may only do so with the work/study coordinator’s permission. Students will have difficulty switching from work to classes after the first two weeks <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">because the add/drop period has ended for Lewiston and Edward Little.
 * 1) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Continue both options and can drop at anytime either the extra classes or the work options but must continue to do one or the other. Once one of the options has been dropped to create a single load, it cannot be switched back to a double load.
 * 2) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Use their work option or the classes as work/study credit and drop the other option

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Using Franklin classes for work/study is a privilege and could be lost at the work/study coordinator’s <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">discretion if the following guidelines are not followed:
 * 1) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Students may not speak/skip/leave classes without permission from the work/study coordinator.
 * 2) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Students are expected to call in and explain absences, failure to do so three times could result in losing the classes.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**Option Search**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Students who are not attended extra classes or taking advantage of the work/study options above may earn credit by performing OPTION SEARCH. Option search consists of a maximum of five weeks where the student is looking for a job. Option search activities include:
 * 1) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Calling prospective work/study options contacts/supervisors
 * 2) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Visiting propestive work/study sites
 * 3) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Meeting/interviewing with prospective work/study option contacts/supervisors
 * 4) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Point Value of work/study and option search options
 * 5) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Work/Study
 * 6) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Full credit is earned if a student successfully completes an entire work/study schedule fo the week and hands in the appropriate work slips and verification forms on time.
 * 7) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Option Search
 * 8) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Phone calls, visits to prospective work/study sites and/or meeting or interviews with prospective work/study option supervisors equal 2 points each.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Option Search points needed for various week lengths

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Work slips and verification forms <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">It is every Franklin student’s responsibility to hand in either a work/study work slip or verification form each week. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Work/study work slips are due on the Wednesday of the following week that they cover and should be signed by an employer or supervisor. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Students in option search must hand in verification forms and phone call logs by the end of the week. These forms should be signed by a staff member who is monitoring the calls and no forms will be accepted past the due date without the work/study coordinators permission.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**Bonus Points** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Bonus points may be earned by:
 * 1) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Handing in work slips before the work/study due date. (20 points for Friday/Monday, 10 points for Tuesday)
 * 2) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Handing in full credit (30 point) work slips or verification forms for three weeks in a row (3 points after the first three weeks and 5 points for each three weeks thereafter)

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Points could be lost if slips or stubs are not handed in on time or a student does not attend work/study on a scheduled day.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**Termination from program** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">A student could be terminated from the work/study program if he or she falsifies slips or stubs, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">breaks a work/study related special condition agreement, or if they show unsatisfactory effort <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">in the program regardless of their academic status.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">EXAMPLE VERIFICATION FORM