{"id":6384,"date":"2020-01-30T13:50:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T18:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/?p=6384"},"modified":"2020-01-30T13:50:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T18:50:47","slug":"special-delivery-service-brews-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/creekline-st-johns\/special-delivery-service-brews-smiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Special delivery service brews smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By Heidy Brosofsky-Weaver<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mail@floridanewsline.com<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For coffee connoisseurs, there are few things better than that morning cup of joe.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks to a new Bitty &amp; Beau\u2019s Coffee delivery service offered at Creekside High School, that is exactly what staff members receive: A customized cup of fresh-brewed coffee \u2026 and a friendly smile to start the day.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s fun to make coffee,\u201d said Creekside senior J.J. Jordan, who comes in early to prepare the coffee. \u201cI like to help people and see them smile.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI have learned a lot about being a barista,\u201d said senior Bryan Santos meticulously measuring the exact water needed for a perfect pot of coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both Jordan and Santos are part of the school\u2019s Access Points program. This offers students opportunities to work on their high school diploma while gaining real-world job experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to teacher Michelle Joyner, participation in the Bitty &amp; Beau\u2019s activity provides various skills and \u201callows students to determine if this might be something they would like to pursue as a job after they complete their schooling.\u201d She said several students now consider themselves baristas, and the job \u201cgives them a great sense of pride.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to this three-day-a-week coffee endeavor, which kicked off in December, seniors in the Career Experience class receive community-based instruction working at local businesses such as Publix and PDQ. Furthermore, these dedicated students run the recycling program at Creekside High School, and they were recently involved in making and selling customized doormats before the holiday season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Access Points courses teach \u201cself-determination and self-advocacy as well as job skills and community work experience, preparing them for employment,\u201d Joyner said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This same philosophy is also at the heart of Bitty &amp; Beau\u2019s Coffee, which opened its first store in Wilmington, NC, in 2016. Founder Amy Wright wanted to provide Bitty and Beau, her two children with special needs, job opportunities that celebrated and showed appreciation for their diversity. In addition to employing people with varying disabilities at her coffee shops, Wright, who was named 2017 CNN Hero of the Year, implemented the Bitty &amp; Beau\u2019s Coffee Cart program, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creekside paraprofessional Michele Stubbs said local business GradePower Learning partnered with the school to purchase the initial cart supply kit, including a brewer, caps, and aprons. Stubbs, who helps supervise coffee production and delivery, added that proceeds will more than likely go toward a celebratory field trip at the end of the school year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, teachers and students are making memories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe have a Spanish teacher who orders from us, and just the other day, one of our students who speaks fluent Spanish delivered her coffee,\u201d said Joyner. \u201cThey started talking in Spanish, and all the students were just mesmerized and impressed by how well they conversed together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although it takes a lot of time to prepare for delivery, it\u2019s time well spent, said JoJo Morgan, a senior who is also the first Miss Royal Knight pageant winner. \u201cThe staff is grateful, and it puts a smile on their faces.\u201d To her, that\u2019s the best reward of all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photo courtesy Heidy Brosofsky-Weaver<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Heidy Brosofsky-Weaver mail@floridanewsline.com For coffee connoisseurs, there are few things better than that morning cup of joe.\u00a0Thanks to a new Bitty &amp; Beau\u2019s Coffee delivery service offered at Creekside High School, that is exactly what staff members receive: A customized cup of fresh-brewed coffee \u2026 and a friendly smile to start the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-creekline-st-johns"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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