We are now a full month into YESS and things are going great so far. Our Mentors have been doing a great job with working individually with our YESS Mentees.

We have spent some time going over organization skills and decided to bring down folders for mentees. The mentors emptied their mentees backpack out so they can start organizing their papers into folders. We also went over the importance of staying organized for each class. On Thursday we did an ice breaker. It consist of information about themselves that the mentors might have in common with them along with their goals for school.

Mr. Medina went over one thing majority of the students have in common and that’s 80219, our zip code. We all come from the same neighborhood and we should always push one another to do better than where they started.

We’ve also been working on grades. We’re starting to see them put more progress into their classes. Their 5 or more F’s are now cutting in half. Finals are creeping up faster than we Intesa pated so we are pushing them to turn in their missing assignments.