Hello!

Last week was a great week here at Lincoln H.S. We are a week and a half away from finals and our Mentors and Mentees are defiantly feeling the stress. Yet, among all the stress the mentors are feeling, they are still making time to make sure their mentees are prepared for their very first High school final. We have some mentors who are going to their mentees classes and talking to teachers, as other mentors are actually driving to the mentees home to pick them up so they are not late to school.  On Tuesday, we gave our mentors a little packet containing their mentees attendance and grades. We had them go over how their attendance can reflect their grade in the classes. We also made sure mentors were checking the percentages and missing assignments in each of their mentees failing classes and coming up with a few detailed goals on how they could bring them up. We want to make sure the classes they are failing is the work they are bringing down to YESS Mentoring.

At the end, we had a group discussion about the importance of getting to class on time and staying engaged throughout the whole class time. As well as talking about staying proactive and communicating with their teachers about missed assignments or assignments, they can redo to get a higher grade.