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THRIVE Director Notes

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Director Notes: 

First-Year families.  In the next few weeks, the students will have their first job shadow opportunity.  For these job shadows, students will need to dress appropriately for the job shadows in casual dress.  If you’d make sure your student has appropriate clothing on campus for them to wear.  If you have any questions please give Dr. Manning an email and he can help you with this.

All families: This week (2/5-2/9), we will be having our first set of Family Interviews for next year’s possible cohort.  We have tried to make sure we have as many classes as we can but some classes will not meet.  The teachers will have alternative homework assignments that they can do on their own.  It’s suggested that they meet in small groups during their normal class times in the library, Collaboration Zone, etc.  This will help them stay on track and get the homework done that is assigned.  The last week of February we will do the same.

First-Year Students:

Foods & Nutrition I: Debra Southard  

On Monday we finished up with Johnson County Community Health. Everyone earned their food handling license. Wednesday we talked about eggs and making omelets. We explained step by step how to make them. Students also had a planning sheet. Friday the 1st group went over and made omelets.

Food Handler’s License:

Omelettes anyone??  Our first year students made something in the kitchen last week.  We’ll 

have the other group this week.

Workplace & Community Skills: Gary Manning

This week we started discussing job shadows for the semester.  Our first job shadow will be in a couple of weeks.  When the students job shadow at their locations, they need to dress appropriately, have good body language and not utilize their phones/technology.  I have suggested to the students to make sure that they appropriate clothes to wear to a job shadow.  We do not expect them to spend a lot of money on new clothes but the student may need to start thinking about professional clothes that they may need.  

Daily & Independent Living Skills (DILS):  Joni Shelton

We reviewed the importance of quality sleep, drinking plenty of water, and started reviewing healthy eating. We tied these topics to SMART Goals as students logged sleep and then wrote a SMART Goal to work towards good quality sleep, and then determined how much water they each should be drinking each day and wrote a SMART Goal to meet their hydration needs. Students are currently keeping track of their food and drink intake for a week.

Reviewing for Nutrients…

Just studying…

Second-Year Students:

Transition Planning II: Gary Manning

This week the students are researching apartments within their hometown.  This has created some anxiety among some students.  The students know that finding an apartment needs to be realistic and they cannot afford an apartment that may cost them over $1500/month.  We also discussed having a roommate to split the cost.   

Foods and Nutrition II: Lisa 

We finished up our meal planning lesson and began learning about knife skills and how to do different cutting techniques like dicing, julienne, cubing, etc. We will be in the kitchen to practice soon on vegetables and making a vegetable salad.

Internship I: Gary Manning

We have been discussing certain body language you need to have in a professional setting compared to the body language you may have when you are at home or with your friends.  We have also discussed observing social cues from other people and what those social cues may be.  

Some Second-year students bowling… relieve stress?

Third-Year Students:

Transition Planning IV: Lisa Garnier

We have created a basic budget and are now focusing on job search skills and strategies.

Internship IV: Lisa Garnier

My 3rd year students are doing well in paid internships!

Banti at her Internship at Central Logos.

Fourth-Year Students:

4th Year Seminar/Portfolio: Lisa Garnier

With holidays, snow days, and illness, we haven’t met as much as we should have at this point in the semester, but the students are doing a great job getting their budgets together and managing their time.

Internships:

Students are well into their paid internships and all is going well

Plato: 

It was a good week for Plato. Almost everyone completed theirs for the week. 

THRIVE Activities:

Mentor Activities: 

This weekend Colten and the students watched both the Jennies and Mules basketball games.  The Jennies handly beat the Lincoln Tigers in the early match, while the Mules took it into overtime but lost the game in the final seconds.

Great Job Everyone!!  For more pictures please join our THRIVE Facebook and/or Instagram pages.

Important upcoming dates:   

Next Mentor Activity:  

Next weekend Jamee has a group of students making breakfast burritos on Saturday morning.  Sounds yummy.

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