Representatives consisting of YIC Directors, educators, and consultants reviewed numerous testing platform to determine one that could address needs throughout the state. As a result, TABE is now being phased out and has been replaced by Renaissance Star 360, a computer-adaptive assessment that measures student achievement on reading and math skills. YIC in Granite, YESS, […]
Staff Professional Learning
In Granite School District several days in the school calendar are set aside for professional development (PD). YESS, sSTEP, and GAPP teachers recently participated in a PD discussion regarding the ability to design instruction that challenges, motivates, and interests our students. As educators we continue to refine our teaching skills in order to provide the […]
HEART-felt Activities at DT
Every year for Valentine’s Day, Cindy, Health teacher at DT, orders special human heart shaped chocolates for the students as they discuss the heart, its function and etc. Yum! In conjunction with Cindy’s Health lessons on the heart, Cathleen, Art teacher, has the students draw and design a human heart, including in the drawings different […]
PT Conferencing
Teachers in YESS make themselves available to meet with parents, foster parents, caseworkers, advocates, staff, and any others that work on behalf of the students they teach.
YESS’s Awesome Mentors
YESS is privileged to have an awesome and dedicated group of mentors (Juvenile Justice Advocates) who work with youth in care throughout the schools in Granite and with students in some of the facilities.
Upside Down Periodic table
A group of UK researchers has suggested introducing an inverted version of the periodic table, with heavy elements at the top and the lightest at the bottom. They argue that displaying the table upside down makes sense in many ways. The lighter, more fundamental elements are at the base of the table, and properties such […]
Let the Adventure Begin!
Steve Kaelin, who has worked at the State Board of Education for the past 6 years, and with us in YESS for 14 years before that, is hanging up his hat and venturing into retirement. Well…he’s retiring from one aspect of life, but setting off onto other paths of service. As counselor, placement coordinator, school-based […]
Mission STEMCAP Continues at UNI GTC
Students at DSI/Gemstone at the Salt Lake Valley Youth Center participated in the first of the Mission STEMCAP programming with a focus on the Grand Challenge topic of extinction. The program continued starting today with students at UNI GTC and will explore the topic of biodiversity loss. Here is some information regarding STEMCAp from Dr. […]
Orchestrating a Move at DSI/Gemstone
Carol and Pamela, teachers at DSI/Gemstone, programs at the Salt Lake Valley Youth Center, recently moved from the outside relocatable classrooms into the building into vacant sections. Moving classrooms is no simple task, especially when art and music materials and supplies are involved! These teachers worked diligently at organizing, packing and preparing for the move, […]
STEMCAP Collaborator
The students in YESS have been privileged for the past few years to have a team, under the direction of Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, forest ecology professor from the University of Utah, come to the facilities to bring science experiences. They were most recently at Gemstone working with the girls on ways the students can be […]