A teacher and a coach who kept noticing the same thing
Kids light up when they make something real. Not a worksheet about building, not a video about building. An actual thing they can hold, that they made, with tools they were trusted to use. We built The Apprentice Guild around that moment.
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Curriculum · CTE and digital media
Morgan is a local Career and Technical Education teacher with provisional certification and a background in digital media. She spends her days teaching the skills most schools quietly dropped a generation ago, and she's watched what happens when a student who struggles on paper turns out to be brilliant with their hands.
She designed our curriculum: what gets taught at which age, which tool is introduced when, how a skill gets checked off, and what a kid should be able to do by the time they leave a level. She doesn't teach every class, but every class follows her plan.
Andrew
Programs · youth recreation and safety
Andrew has spent years running youth programs with Parks and Recreation and the YMCA: the logistics of getting thirty kids through a great afternoon, the training of the staff who lead them, and the safety systems that make parents comfortable leaving their kid with you. He's also a certified CPR and first aid instructor, and he leads our staff training.
He handles the parts that make a program actually work: schedules, ratios, instructor training, and the trailer full of tools that shows up at your co-op on time.
Add andrew.jpgWhy we started this
Shop class disappeared from most schools years ago. Kids spend more of the day on screens than any generation before them, and fewer of them have ever cut a board square, wired a circuit, or fixed something that broke. That's not just a missing skill. It's a missing kind of confidence, the kind that comes from doing something hard with your hands and having it work.
So we combined what we know. Her classroom and curriculum experience, his years of running safe, well-loved youth programs, and a shared love of building things. Then we put it in a trailer and took it to the families who want it.
Kids don't build confidence by being told they're capable. They build it by building something.
How we run a class
Real tools, earned
No plastic hammers. Every tool is introduced with a demonstration and a supervised check-off, and nothing is handed out before a kid is ready for it.
Small groups, always
Six to twelve kids per instructor depending on age. Everyone works, every class. Nobody watches from the back.
Nothing to plug in
No screens, no apps, no tablets. Two hours of measuring, cutting, solving, and finishing something they're proud of.
Come build something
We're taking bookings for co-ops, private schools, churches, and community groups across the Eastside and Snohomish County.
Try the first class free