West Leadership Weekly Round Up: April 30th - May 4th

Hi all! 

Another busy week here at West as we got through a couple important lessons and introduced our Stand Up Project! 

On Monday, the class checked their grades and listed them on their grade tracker. From there they completed the YoBD surveys and got this submitted. Additionally, students were taught the Tools You Can Use lesson in which we went through and discussed various resources to help us with our problems such as Safe2TellColorado and the Good Samaritan Law. Students were surprised that the law existed in the first place and after discussing several scenarios, they began to see how it is important and could be helpful. 

On Tuesday, students had a general study hall and homework day. Wednesday we picked right back up and had our lesson on Goals, Wants, and Needs. Students were taught about the various types of goals: micro, short, mid, and long term. They were also taught about the differences between wants and needs and how achieving short and mid term goals we can eventually reach our long term hopes and dreams. This lesson and the conversation as well as action plans to reach out goals continued into Thursday as well.  

Thursday the class had an opportunity to finish up our conversations on Goals, Wants, and Needs. From there we moved onto our discussion and lesson on Budgeting 101. Students went over the 50-20-30 rule and the difference between fixed expenses, flexible spending, and savings and investments. Students created various financial goals and broke down how to achieve them using the 50-20-30 formula. 

On Friday the class was introduced to the Stand Up Project. We went through and discussed various social justice topics and answered any questions the students had about a particular issue. Students showed interest in a wide variety of topics which is good to see. The plan for Monday is to have students identify two or more topics of interest, write down the cause and solutions to the problem, and then come to an agreement about how to address it within the context of our project. We are looking forward to dedicating as much time as we can to these projects in the coming weeks. Stay tuned! -Ben