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Career and Transition Services West Potomac High School Earl L. Pulley Career Center 6500 Quander Rd. Alexandria, Va. 22307 Tel:(703)718-2700 Fax:(703)718-2715   Web Curators: Deborah Rich darich@fcps.edu Ahmed Atef ahmed.atef@fcps.edu   Last Updated: November 12, 2009

CBI/ CWE: The Community-Based Instruction/ Community Work Experience Training By: Mr. Clement Castellano The Pulley ETR (Employment and Transition Representative) n integral part of the instructional program at the Earl L. Pulley Career Center is the instruction and training received at the community-based training employment settings. These sites are cooperating businesses in the community who allow students to train in real working settings under the Fair Labor Standards Act Guidelines. This allows the students to develop real work skills and to acquire appropriate work behaviors. These sites are a vital link to the development of appropriate work expectations as the Pulley Center students transition to employment. They interact with the employees at the site and learn the protocols of various employment settings, such as an office center, restaurant, school, hotel, greenhouse, and retirement home. Students, depending on training needs, may go out to community work experience sites in various training models. Some of the students go in small groups with direct teacher supervision, some go out to individual sites with short-term job coach support, and some go to individual sites with the direct training and supervision of employers. These training sites assist the Pulley Center staff in determining the time, place, support and type of employment these students will transition to while in school or after graduation. We greatly appreciate our cooperating employers and look forward to their continued support and the development of new sites in the future to meet the ever-changing needs of students and employers.