THRIVE - Director Notes

THRIVE Director Notes Posts on this Blog will be directed to help families see what is going on in our THRIVE Program.  Items discussed on the Blog have already occurred. To keep updated on what’s coming up please refer to your students or UCM activity calendar. First-Year Students: Workplace & Community Skills (Mrs. Southard & Dr. Manning):   Monday students were shown how to look at classes for next fall. Students were asked to find 5 classes they felt could be possibilities. They were to email the list of Dr. Manning and Mrs. Southard. Students will only take one class. Dr. Manning will be meeting with each student to narrow down their choices. We want to pick the right class for each student based on their interest in the field. Also, Some of the classes may coincide with other THRIVE classes they are taking. So there are several things to consider when selecting a class. Students were asked to discuss class selection with their parents. Wednesday student...

THRIVE Director Notes Posts on this Blog will be directed to help families see what is going on in our THRIVE Program.  Items discussed on the Blog have already occurred. To keep updated on what’s coming up please refer to your students or UCM activity calendar. First-Year Students: Workplace & Community Skills (Mrs. Southard & Dr. Manning): Monday students were reminded to complete their paragraph on their first job shadowing experience. It was due Wednesday. Classroom discussion centered around the observations they made at job shadowing. Professionalism, attire, shaking hands were covered. Wednesday students work on a thank you letter addressed to the person they job shadowed. Learning Strategies (Mrs. Southard):  Monday students took their first on-line quiz. Everyone worked together. All students earned full credit. Students got to experience what it is like to take an on-line test and discussed what resources they could use during working on an onl...

THRIVE Director Notes Posts on this Blog will be directed to help families see what is going on in our THRIVE Program.  Items discussed on the Blog have already occurred. To keep updated on what’s coming up please refer to your students or UCM activity calendar. We had our first week of interviews last week.   Due to family interviews, our students had alternative work for some of their classes.  This might’ve meant online or group work for some of the classes. We realize this might’ve caused some added stress for some of the students.  We’ll be working on helping them catch up early this week. We had some good interviews with potential students. We appreciated the students’ understanding during this time.  We’ll have another set of interviews in the last week of the month. First-Year Students: Workplace & Community Skills (Mrs. Southard & Dr. Manning): Monday class was cut short due to interviews for next year's cohort. Students wer...

THRIVE Director Notes Posts on this Blog will be directed to help families see what is going on in our THRIVE Program.  Items discussed on the Blog have already occurred. To keep updated on what’s coming up please refer to your students or UCM activity calendar. THRIVE Open House: This past Monday we had our Spring Open House.  We had close to 50 people in attendance. This included school districts, agencies, families and potential students.  They asked many great questions and we’ve already heard back from a couple with more interest in this year and the following year.  The first-year students were in attendance and also were able to show their fairly clean dorm rooms to the families. We also had a few 2nd-year students that didn’t have internships that helped out during this event.  Below is a picture of the event, we had a little snow this week... First-Year Students: Workplace & Community Skills (Mrs. Southard & Dr. Manning): Mo...