The last two weeks have been full of chaos, thinking, reading, scheduling, and emailing, but I'm happy to announce we have finally worked out the details of our program for this semester!!
We started to run into scheduling problems when we realized the kids could only be met with during lunch, recess, or UA. This was a problem because it didn't overlap with the lab times or after school times we had originally offered to our high school students, so it turned out, some of the students who had signed up couldn't participate due to unavailability. A few students, however, had study hall during a period that lined up perfectly with NPE's lunch schedule. After realizing this, we asked Mrs. Whitaker if we could take a look at her study hall rosters throughout the whole day to see if there were any other students who may be good role models for the kids and interested in mentoring once a week. We were able to find a few more students this way whose schedules lined up with UA, lunch, or recess at NPE. Once we had finally gotten enough high school students who were good for the job, we had to start matching students up based on times available and the applications we had gotten back. We were able to match up some surprisingly good pairs considering the limited time availabilities and limited high schoolers available, so we were very excited about that! Next, we had to go through the NPHS and NPE schedules and find the overlapping days and times in the next three weeks. We wrote all of these on the calendar you can see below, and we started to plan the days and times our high schoolers could go. Then, we sent individualized emails to each high school student, and now we are just waiting for responses from each of them on which date they plan on going to mentor! Our next steps include talking to NPE about where the high school students need to go when they arrive, making sure every high school student is prepared, communicating all the dates to NPE, and then starting to plan the real program for next semester. I am so excited about all the progress we have made, and I can't wait to watch this unfold in the next few weeks!
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AuthorMy name is Ellie Roudebush, and I'm a senior in the Advanced Business Management class at New Palestine High School. Archives
February 2018
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