September 29th- October 3rd

This week was another successful week! I was able to have a meeting with the principal, vice principal, dean of students, and the two counselors at Shaw Heights  to discuss the students I have picked to be mentors for the program. During this meeting it was brought to my attention that some students will not be able to participate in the program because they are in literacy intervention and an ESL class (which means they do not have electives). Luckily, one of the counselors sent me a list of  15 students to meet with on Wednesday. On Wednesday, I did all day interviews, and these interviews were with 8th graders. I feel like I have the best support here at Shaw Heights, and I have picked some amazing mentors for the program here as well.


Next week, I am planning on having a pizza party to congratulate the mentors that were selected for the program. During the pizza party I will  give the mentors a pull out schedule, which will happen until the course becomes available on educate.

Also, this week I received some school supply donations from the community liaisons, also know as "The Julias." These kind ladies  gave me :

12 boxes pf crayons

•  2 boxes of Kleenex
•  48 erasers
• 12 boxes of colored pencils
• 37 scissors
• 16 notebooks
•  And 10 glue sticks

 

I priced these items on office depot. This would have cost 186. 76 This also includes the supplies they gave me a few weeks ago. Which also included writing utensils and art supplies.

Also, to insure that elective teachers are not upset that I am pulling 50 mentors from their classes. I have given students a form for their parents to fill out that says it is okay for the student to drop electives such as choir to join my class. I have not had any push back from this. In fact, I have had parents call me to talk about the opportunities their child will have by being in the YESS program and the parents are excited about their child becoming mentors.

All in all, this was a busy but great week!