News from Todd’s math classes at Decker Lake Youth Center. My class is participating in a stock market simulation. Each student has $100,000 to invest in a real time game updated as the market changes. The students have watched the big sell off from Friday and Monday, as well as the small bounce experienced on […]
National School Counselors Week
It’s National School Counselors Week! We honored our school counselors, Carol, Chad, Lee, and Nick (though he’s currently out of town) with a luncheon yesterday. We appreciate all that these amazing counselors do for the students in YESS. You’re awesome and we all are grateful for your invaluable contributions to YESS!
A Crowning Event
Ms. J and Mr. Alan, teachers at UNI GTC, were crowned by one of their students with HEARTy new headdresses!
School at the Detention Center
Youth who have been brought into the Salt Lake Valley Detention Center receive full days of schooling during their stay. Youth Educational Support School (YESS) provides a strong educational program with a wide range of curricular areas taught, including ELL (English Language Learners), all addressing state and common core standards by highly qualified teachers with […]
Spoons at Genesis
Students at Genesis are not only learning to play the piano, guitar, ukulele, and a wide variety of percussion instruments, they are now adding spoons to their repertoire. Yup, spoons! Pamela, the music and English teacher, provides a wide scope of music awareness for her students. They watched a spoons tutorial online, as well as videos […]
Persuasive Essays
Students in Dieter’s English classes at the Detention Center have been learning to write 3-pronged thesis, 5-paragraph persuasive essays. The following essay is about changes that the student author would like to see at DT.
Novel-ties
Books, books, books, and more books! ARTEC’s novel set library covers a wide scope of topics and interests.
Metals and Magnets
The University of Utah has an outreach science program for schools and the girls at GTC UNI have been experiencing science hands-on. This week they got to experiment with metals and magnets. What an awesome opportunity!
ARTEC Moved!
Valley Behavioral Health has been consolidating their adolescent programs. As part of that reorganization, ARTEC was moved to their Parkview complex; this included moving the school services portion as well. It was no small fete to move a school, but with the coordinating efforts of VBH, the school staff – Cathy, school registrar and secretary, teachers […]
Music Teacher Extraordinaire
Our very own Pamela, who teaches at English and music at Genesis Youth Center, is gaining notoriety on the professional development presentation circuit in Granite School District! Recently she presented Songs, Rhythms, and Drums for the Granite School District Preschool Conference. We’re glad that you’re sharing your talents, but don’t leave us to hit the […]
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