May 6 -10, 2019 is Teacher Appreciation Week. The YESS teachers are highly qualified, professional, dedicated, and caring individuals, committed to providing meaningful learning opportunities for our unique student population. They go above and beyond for their students! Each YESS site received a basket of goodies from the YESS Office (spearheaded by Ann). An extraordinarily […]
Reading & Tutoring at DT
Reading and tutoring at the Detention Center – Cathleen Taggart At DT, we’ve placed a great deal of focus on literacy. Sean keeps an amazing record of reading levels and time spent tutoring. It’s been a rewarding experience to tutor students one-on-one when we don’t have specific ESL students. Many of our residents, though not […]
Milkweed and Monarchs – Planting
Students at Decker Lake Youth Center got down and dirty yesterday…planting the milkweed seeds in the greenhouse! This was the second session in the Monarch Butterfly Conservation Project sponsored through USBE and the University of Utah’s STEMCAP initiative. Since the monarch butterfly relies on milkweed for sustenance for the developmental stages, the replenishing of milkweed is […]
Driving in the Classroom
The students in the YESS Transition Classroom at Granite Connection High School, under teacher Daria’s supervision, ar elearning to drive…IN the classroom! This drivers ed simulation system was recently purchased through a supplemental grant through the Youth in Care office at USBE. Daria reports that the students have taken this opportunity very seriously and have […]
Flowers in Bloom!
Flowers are blooming all around, including in the art classrooms at AIM and Genesis! The first two flowers, as well as the sunflowers on the slider on this site’s homepage, were done by students in Sandy’s class at AIM. The remaining eight flowers are the artwork from Carol’s art students at Genesis Youth Center.
Acquiring Digital Skills
Students in Sandy’s classes, Digital Media teacher at AIM, and in Tom’s classes, Digital Media teacher at Detention, are attaining digital design skills through the use of Photoshop. The picture on the left depicts a student following a tutorial and learning to use the Photoshop tools. The other picture is a home design drawn by […]
Milkweed and Monarchs
Soon the students at Decker Lake Youth Center will be playing an active role in the conservation of the monarch butterfly, which is close to being designated an endangered species. This is a joint effort sponsored through the University of Utah’s STEM Community Alliance Program (STEMCAP), Utah State Board of Education and science teachers Lisa, […]
NASA Comes to YESS
NASA – STEM/CAP Activity Write-up by Kath Nelson The youth at Genesis, UNI GTC, and Decker Lake were treated to a special interactive STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) presentation by a NASA scientist! Dr. Dianna Scalise, the Director of Astrobiology Education at NASA, was hosted by Dr. Nalini Nankarni, of the University of Utah […]
Oh, the possibilities in chess!
Van, math teacher at Decker Lake Youth Center, is teaching his students the art of chess. He has explained to them that there are 10120 possibilities of moves in chess! On the day of the photo, he was teaching them chess opening strategies. Students love Van’s math classes so much that they even ask for “homework” […]
Spreading Music
Pamela, YESS’s own music teacher extraordinaire from Genesis, recently conducted a music training in the district for Preschool Services. The focus for this training was using the ukulele. Everyone was able to try their hand at playing this unique instrument.
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