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THRIVE Director Notes

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Director Notes:.

First-Year families:

Housing Agreements for Fall 2024:  Hello Families, If you’d work with your students to fill out the Fall Housing Agreement.  They are located on your student’s MyCentral Page.  It’s on the left side towards the middle I believe.  I’ll also be sending an email to families about giving us a Letter of Intent for next year.  This helps us prepare for students.

All Families: 

Please start talking with your students about Finals Week.  Finals week is April 29- May 3rd this year.  The link to the finals schedule is online at the following website.  

https://www.ucmo.edu/current-students/office-of-the-registrar-and-student-records/dates-and-deadlines/final_exam_schedule.pdf

For the most part, THRIVE Finals are on the following dates: 

First-year:

Foods & Nutrition I; Wednesday 1-3 pm

Workplace & Community Skills: Monday 3:30-5:30

DILS- Thursday 3:30-5:30

PE- Doesn’t have a final during Finals week, they have their final the week previous.

All Elective courses you’ll find times on the above doc/link.  However, if the classes have projects, instead of finals, those times could be inaccurate.  Also, if the student works with OAS, which we suggest for elective classes their times are then planned by the student and OAS.  

Second Year:

Transition Planning: Scheduled individually.

Foods & Nutrition II: Wednesday 8-10.

PE- Doesn’t have a final during Finals week, they have their final the week previous.

All Elective courses you’ll find times on the above doc/link.  However, if the classes have projects, instead of finals, those times could be inaccurate.  Also, if the student works with OAS, which we suggest for elective classes their times are then planned by the student and OAS.  

So it’s highly recommended you first talk to your student in the coming weeks.  Typically 2 weeks before finals we ask the students to start planning and setting up times with OAS…Then we will double-check with students during the week prior to finals week that they have everything planned and organized.

First-Year Students:

Foods & Nutrition I: Debra Southard  

We are finishing up some subjects. We made fried potatoes in the air fryers. Talked about which air fryers are good ones and which are not. How to clean the fryers. Students had a big written assignment due. Students were to practice the writing skills they learned in the first semester. Working on answering some questions by explaining, expanding, and elaborating their responses. 

Workplace & Community Skills: Gary Manning

The students did their mock interviews over the past week. We also discussed their fall internships.  

Some last Job Shadows…

Daily & Independent Living Skills (DILS):  Joni Shelton

This past week we continued our discussion in regards to Personal Safety. We discussed important phone numbers to have for emergencies, such as Poison Control and the student's Drs. office number. We also talked about situations in which they may need to call emergency numbers. We had a guest speaker on Thursday from Johnson County Emergency Management. He covered a wide variety of topics which included the job as the director of emergency services, volunteering with community Emergency Management Systems, what various community emergency alerts mean, and then what to do in those emergency situations.

Second-Year Students:

Transition Planning II: Gary Manning

 We are getting ready for the last week of classes and finals.  The students' final in this class will be on Monday, April 29th.  The students this week in class did the ARC assessment and the PSI assessment.  These two assessments give us data on how the students are growing as individuals in being independent and responsible.    Further, the data shows us how students are using problem-solving skills and how they make choices.  

Foods and Nutrition II: Lisa 

This week we are reviewing for the Final exam and preparing for the cookie bake-off. Students are choosing their cookie recipes and providing me with their shopping lists.

Internship I: Gary Manning

The students have their mock interviews at the Career & Life Design Center.  The students have started their exit interview with the Thrive staff.  We have been discussing this interview during class time.  

Third-Year Students:

Transition Planning IV: Lisa Garnier

Students are finishing up their final papers and fine-tuning resumes

Internship IV: Lisa Garnier

Students are finishing up their internships with the last day of internship being Friday, April 26th.

Fourth-Year Students:

4th Year Seminar/Portfolio: Lisa Garnier

Students continue to work on their final portfolio submission and the end-of-program essays.

Internships:

Students are finishing up their internships with the last day of internship being either Wednesday, April 24th, or Friday, April 26th.

Plato: Most students completed plato. Seems to be the same students that do not get it completed weekly.

THRIVE Activities:

Softball: Last game…

Mentor Activities: 

This past weekend the students played Dodgeball with Jamee…

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

Important upcoming dates:   

Next Mentor Activity:  

The next activity will be a cooking activity with Kaylee.  We’ll watch for pictures.

UCM Athletics:

Mules and Jennies Baseball and Softball are currently going…   We’ll see how they both do this week.

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