West Leadership Weekly Round Up: September 4th - 7th

Hi all!

Last week was a shortened week due to the Labor Day holiday on Monday. We started the week on Tuesday and Wednesday by setting up some seating arrangements so students could interact with more than just their group of friends and expand their network a bit. From there students played a couple of fun games including the Intro Bingo game before working on their Coat of Arms/Tattoo. Students were quite engaged with both activities and many took their tattoos home with them to finish up (see examples below).

Some of the unique tattoo ideas created by students

Thursday evening was Back to School Night at West. A handful of students and parents came to my classroom at which time we discussed the course, how that particular student can succeed, and what I/YESS can do to help facilitate that process. As always, it's great to meet our parents and the siblings of our students. I'm looking forward to having our new Family Advocate help support our families here in the coming weeks as well.

Friday we were lucky enough to have Emily visit and meet our seniors to help them get started on their post-secondary planning. We have significantly more seniors this year than last year (one class has 8 seniors alone, more so than all of my classes combined last year!). While Emily was working with our seniors, the rest of the students and I completed our Fishbowl Friday activity, finished any remaining tattoos, and then got outside for some fun in the sun! Overall another good week here at West, next week we will be diving into our Mentor training and students will meet our new Family Advocate!
Stay tuned! -Ben