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Life skills through woodworking

Discover the Employability in Your Students’ Hands

Ages 10 -18

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Maplewoodshop for Career and Technical Education

Expose middle and high school students to future trade careers with a union-approved, pre-apprenticeship program.

 
 
 

Looking for career exploration opportunities or more advanced projects with Maplewoodshop? Inspire your students to become interested in future trade careers with Career Connections© curriculum from the Carpenters Union. Using Maplewoodshop tools and materials, students will be challenged to think like carpenters as they complete carpentry 1 and 2 projects. Completion of these projects set them on a path to apprenticeship in the trades, or present unique challenges beyond our advanced project offerings. 

 
 
 
 

How it Works

 
 

  1. Maplewoodshop facilitates the implementation of Career Connections to create pathways to opportunity.

  2. Maplewoodshop trains your staff, so your teachers do not need any experience in woodworking.

  3. Maplewoodshop adapts the widely used Career Connections Curricula from the Carpenters Union Eastern Atlantic Sales Training Fund for use of non-powered tools.

  4. Maplewoodshop lays the foundation by training equipping, and supporting schools and camps nationwide, as early as 4th grade.

 
 
Maplewoodshop creates pathways to opportunity. The steps are as follows. 1. Teacher training 2. Tools 3. Basic Skill-building projects 4. Career exploration 5. Trade-based projects 6. Certification and 7. Opportunity
 
 
 
“Trades such as carpentry allow individuals to explore and advance their intelligence and education through hands-on experience.”
— Wyatt anderson , Reach cyber charter school
 
 

Benefits of Woodworking

8th graders woodworking in art class

Benefits for Students

  • Early exposure to the trades

  • Social-emotional learning

  • Collaboration, resiliency, design thinking

  • Tactile, project-based learning

  • Linear pathway to trades via Career Connections and the Carpenters Union Curriculum

Teacher training session

Benefits for Teachers 

  • Curriculum adapts the widely used Career Connection Curricula from the Carpenters Union Eastern Atlantic Sales Training Fund for use with non-powered tools.

  • Training is delivered via Zoom or In-person. We reinforce lessons learned via our online learning platform, Maplewoodshop Learning.

  • Programming are aligned with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters curricula to create opportunities for future apprenticeships.

Proud owner Tom Nikolaides, teacher at Woodcliff Lake shows his tool chest.

Benefits for Administrators

  • Standardized training and lesson plans to scale uniformly across classrooms

  • Support included the first year. Annual retraining and support available

  • Pricing starts at $1,200 and ranges to $25,000 or more depending on the number of students working concurrently and/or supplies and services rendered

Together we help thousands of children discover the opportunity in their hands.