This week in YESS we did an amazing art project centered around trust. We began by doing a journal entry on trust. I asked the scholars to use a circle map to brainstorm words they associated with trust- adjectives, synonyms, even the names of people they actually trust. After we shared out some of the ideas we had come up with, we broke into mentor/mentee pairs to complete a worksheet on trust. The worksheet asked the scholars to identify certain people in their lives--such as parents, siblings, friends, teachers, counselors, and mentors--and to indicate how much they trust those individuals--never, sometimes, mostly, or always. There were several questions on the worksheet as well as to why they trusted certain people and not others, and whether they believed they were considered trustworthy by their peers.
The scholars really took to this topic as many are struggling to trust others. We discussed how people can earn or break your trust, how time is a major factor, and how trust can be repaired. We then discussed the objective of constructing a trust bridge to visually represent how each mentor and mentee felt about trust and why. After we took some time to come up with our initial designs I let the scholars get to work on their projects.
It was so wonderful to see so many taking creative initiative on this assignment. We had a ton of innovative designs and concepts, and once everyone was done (we took almost two days to complete these amazing projects!) we did a gallery walk and share out. Scholars were asked to identify a trust bridge other than their own with which they connected. They also had to speak as to why they felt a connection with that particular bridge. We had a couple of class favorites from each period as the art and design students really excelled with this lesson, yet all the scholars said how much they enjoyed doing this project.
We are looking forward to next week when we will be wrapping up our current unit with a lesson on defining success before moving on to our next unit on relationship management.
This week in YESS we did an amazing art project centered around trust. We began by doing a journal entry on trust. I asked the scholars to use a circle map to brainstorm words they associated with trust- adjectives, synonyms, even the names of people they actually trust. After we shared out some of the ideas we had come up with, we broke into mentor/mentee pairs to complete a worksheet on trust. The worksheet asked the scholars to identify certain people in their lives--such as parents, siblings, friends, teachers, counselors, and mentors--and to indicate how much they trust those individuals--never, sometimes, mostly, or always. There were several questions on the worksheet as well as to why they trusted certain people and not others, and whether they believed they were considered trustworthy by their peers.
It was so wonderful to see so many taking creative initiative on this assignment. We had a ton of innovative designs and concepts, and once everyone was done (we took almost two days to complete these amazing projects!) we did a gallery walk and share out. Scholars were asked to identify a trust bridge other than their own with which they connected. They also had to speak as to why they felt a connection with that particular bridge. We had a couple of class favorites from each period as the art and design students really excelled with this lesson, yet all the scholars said how much they enjoyed doing this project. 
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