Lauren Smith, Student at Mendez Learning Center
For the past four days, we have launched the "I Am The Future" coalition at Felicita and Gonzalo Mendez Learning Center, Santee Educational Complex, and Roosevelt High School. Just to recap the Partnership is starting student based, student lead coalition called "I Am The Future." This coalition would act as a representative of the student voice at the school. We worked hard throughout the week to prepare for these meetings and I am proud to say that they were a tremendous success. We had a great turnout and the students were ecstatic to learn about the “I Am Future” coalition and what S.H.O.W has in store for them and their school. In total we had 16 students at Mendez, 23 students at Santee, and a whopping 58 students at Roosevelt. Our first big project is S.H.O.W (Students Helping Our World). S.H.O.W was started in Chicago in 2009 as a way to motivate student to improve attendance and academics. To accomplish this, they gave their schools certain guidelines to follow. At the end of the year, the students who reach that benchmark were treated with an exclusive concert. I was really happy that my peers were interested in working together on this project. Next week we will be at Jordan High School anticipating another great meeting.
Really excited about this program coming to Roosevelt. Sounds like a great way to support student voice at our schools.
ReplyDeleteVery good program =)
ReplyDeleteIt will definitely cause motivation to students and in the long run, better test scores and better grades.