The meaning is to just turn out the best mentors possible because we just really care about
the kids and we want the best people surrounding them and helping them on their way in education.
We care about them the most that this is about.
What I would really like, putting in my own personal biases here, that with our training,
our tutors and leaders will, if nothing else, put the arts, the humanities, you know, the
social sciences back into education.
We made a list of different qualities we wanted in our mentors, like we really wanted
motivated mentors and mentors who knew how to motivate others, we wanted enthusiastic
mentors, we wanted mentors who knew how to communicate not only with the students but
with the staff.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday days are pretty full, but on Tuesday...
We can fit you into a fast forward at any time.
Let me help you?
Yeah.
Okay.
Set.
We believe that not only do after school programs provide a place for children to go to be safe,
but we also believe that they provide children with essential life skills.
You're not instilling your beliefs or your ideas into these kids, but they look up to
you.
When you get to socialize with other kids, they get to know what it's like to interact
in a different setting that's not as structured as a classroom, and that really helps a lot
of kids put down a lot of their safeguards.
Did you find that?
We have 12 sites running from high school down to first grade.
In the beginning, Cache District really focused on the academics.
The program was about trying to help children who were underprivileged or maybe had some
learning disabilities, trying to help these students get to where they need to be academically.
And as we've been along, we realized that we had the opportunity to provide a lot more.
What it does for kids is it gives them options, and it gives us an opportunity to help them
with homework, tutoring, to build those foundational skills.
And then we have the opportunity for the kids to enjoy clubs.
Okay, so an enemy pie is different ingredients that the kids can do so they can turn their
enemies into their friends.
Raspberry, strawberry, cherry flavor, and tomato, chocolate, whipped cream, and bread.
During last school year, we did a needs assessment of all of our programs, and this summer we
set out to create a training program that would address those needs.
So the first step in the planning, we kind of got together and talked about what we like
about the program and different aspects of the program we thought could change maybe
even better.
But really in the end, that is our job, and we need to be eyes and ears for those students.
We started with watching videos that we will include in a Canvas course program that all
of our tutors will be a part of, and then make slideshows for training the first week
of after school club.
We sat and talked, and then we decided on different topics we thought that we really
needed to cover with the mentors.
Some of the counties started at like 30-30, while the middle school started at 2.
We wanted our mentors to learn about motivation, commitment, communication, and collaboration.
We also wanted them to learn how to work well with other mentors.
Do you know what time there starts and ends?
Emily, how many people do we still not know?
We're looking for the mentors to be understanding and kind of willing to realize that there's
lots of backgrounds that these children are coming from, and just to be sensitive to their
needs.
I don't know how we could have missed anything, because it has been our life.
So, it's up to Emily.
She thinks that when she goes home.
I don't mean to plasticize your bias, but she minds her products, because that's your
responsibility.
Every one here needs to be able to manage themselves.
We also want to take activity time up a notch this year and make sure we are really cutting out the activities to teach them.
Our staff do this work and the leader is right there with them.
There are clubs we wanted to put our hands on.
Probably the case maybe, just be a workaholic.
When you think about making cool work fun, maybe there's some opportunity to redirect the way somebody thinks about something.
Thanks Chloe for being so helpful.
I mean, really for me, it's not that it wasn't there, but it sort of re-established my belief that we're there for a reason.
And if you're not aware of the fact that you're there for a reason, it's really hard to do your job well.
So I think that more than anything else, planning these trainings helps me grow as a leader.
We want to provide opportunity for our mentors to develop and to grow as teachers and as leaders.
And we want our students to have the opportunity to grow and develop academically, socially, and in every other possible way.
The benefit for us is their academics increase.
They have a little more time to work and they're working in small groups, so those mentors that come in, it's not a class of 30.
It's a group of two, maybe a group of three, maybe it's one on one.
Great, let's see, we have a question.
The After School Club really helps the kids build those basic building blocks of knowledge that they need to be successful as they grow older.
It's at one place where if they're not getting it in school, they can hear it a different way after school,
and then from then they can grow and pull that back into the classroom so they can succeed.
Yes, so we're missing 1.4.
One thing that we have tried to do is teach students to have the appropriate skills to make it through life,
through study, through setting goals.
We've learned through the years that it's not just about elementary school, middle school, and high school,
it's about college and what they're going to do afterwards.
Many of our sites, in fact most of our second year's sites, provide some career readiness.
We help them with their homework, so the homework is done.
Now when they can go to class, they feel prepared, they're up with all the other students.
In the enrichment times, we try to do as much of the kind of active play and science projects
and exposure to different arts and music and creative activities that, you know, will help them to be curious
and creative and think critically.
But anyway, we're just going to still give it that bullet shape.
When this thing goes through the water, these will just shimmer in the water
and be just a little accent to help attract, okay?
Nice.
That was a very nice, wasn't it?
What homework are you doing?
Math?
Get out of here.
Very nice, man.
A little bit more.
Am I going to have to scoot back?
What we really wanted the whole training to be focused and centered on is how to make the optimum experience
for the students, because that's what it's all about.
Very cool.
Yeah.
Thank you.
