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 […]
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 […]
Glass Scientists
Glass scientists went to GTC UNI this past week. This was the first of a six week course on elements of glass and fiber optics. They made “glass” with Jolly Ranchers! Who knew science could be so sweet!
Job Interview Practices
So, Why Should I Hire You? – written by Paula Students had a taste of reality, or at least anxiety, as they interviewed for their dream jobs at Decker Lake Youth Center. The practice interviews were the culminating activity of the financial literacy unit in Todd’s math classes and followed a month’s worth of preparation for […]
Plates of the Earth
A student in Dave’s science class at Genesis, created a slideshow depicting the different type of plates within the earth and how each functions. Awesome slideshow! Earthquakes
Life Beyond Planet Earth?
I don’t think we’re alone anymore… What better way to validate this immortal movie phrase than an on-site visit from NASA, and what better place to bring this presentation than the school by the Lake (Decker) and Wasatch Youth Centers? Earlier this week, two members of the NASA Astrobiology team, Daniella Scalice and Jackie Gooridal, […]
Aquarium Visit
Genesis/Gemstone students recently attended the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium. Students walked the rope bridge in the South America Display. Everyone agreed their favorite was the sting ray feeding and then getting to reach in the tank and touch them as they swam by.
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