Things at Lincoln have been Going great as we finished another week of YESS. Tuesday of course was our normal Homework day. We are proud of many students as they are becoming more cautious of their grades. Its been a great feeling for Mr. Medina and I to start seeing the change in majority of the students as they start to see the importance of school, grades and their education. Majority of the parents work one or two jobs and rely on the student to make sure they are getting done what they are needing to graduate. Seeing our students start to develop the right skills to succeed in school is a heart warming feeling for us. Every student now has a buy in, into what school and YESS has to offer.
Mr. Medina has added a few new students This semester. We had 3 teachers and the school posologist come in this week to help support the new students who are needing more of the emotional support. Coming into a program mid year can be a bit scary especially if they already have emotional problems.
  Thursday was activity day. Lead Mentors have been coming in and working with me all week to present our Activity "Masks."  In this activity we hand out face masks to each student and have them start identifying on half of the mask who they were before they were  placed in YESS and who they are now on the other half. The lead Mentors worked the room talking to some students about how standoffish they were in October to where they are now. The mentees talked about how they would skip classes and had no care in the world about what school had to offer. To now, Checking their grades every week and checking in with Mr. Medina every morning. Its awesome to see such growth in the students!
To end the week, Mr. Medina had a t-shirt design contest with the mentees. The Mentee who had the best t-shirt Design won a $25 gift card. we had many students in the drawing but only one came out a winner, Miss Alyssa Morales came out with the best drawling! The Funny part about Alyssa being apart of the contest is, she argued with Mr. Medina constantly about not wanting to be in the problem and not wanting support from him! Mr. Medina would knock on her door every time she would miss YESS. Now Alyssa sits on a 2.9 GPA and tells other teachers "Mr. Medina caring about me and putting me into YESS is what made me turn around as student and made me start caring about school."
We are proud of her!