Friday, March 4, 2016

First week of March at Ranum

Hello all,

Can you believe it's March already? There were lots of things happening this week so I hope I cover everything.

We've started recruiting and handing out applications for students to be mentors next year. So far there has been a lot of interest and I'm excited to start interviewing and creating our team for next year. Current mentors began preparing for the end of year event in May by writing little bio's of themselves. Parent teacher conferences were this week, which is always great seeing parents and talking about their kids and tying to make sure both sides are doing everything they can to support them. Finally, the in-class work of this week had students completing their Treasure Maps and 10 year reunion biographies.


These treasure maps represented students both short and long term goals and how by completing each goal, they are working towards that end goal or "X" that marks the spot of feeling at peace and completely happy/satisfied. As you can see from the photos, some goals along the way involve going to college, moving to a new state or even buying their own house. And the "X" for most students was having a house, spouse, kids, pets, car, career they love and living in a place they enjoy. The students had a lot of fun with this and it was interesting to dive in a little deeper and see exactly how students have their futures planned out.


After students finished their treasure maps, they moved onto their 10 year reunion biographies. I had them imagine that they were at their 10 year high school reunion, so most of them would be around 28 years old. Their job was to write about all of their accomplishments and general life from the time they graduated (age 18) all the way to the reunion (age 28). Again it was great to see how far ahead some students were looking and how particular they were about certain things later in life. For example, students saying that their families would live right next or how many pets/kids they would have.


Hope everyone had a great week! See you next time!