Message to Mentors

Hi All:

 

We're getting to a very exciting time in the Senior Project experience, and your mentee is going to need you for inspiration and guidance more than ever. Attached, you will find a grid indicating student presentation times. This is a very big deal because none of them have controlled a classroom filled with adults and students for the better part of an hour.

 

At this point, I've told the students that they need to plan and create a session that will fill 45 minutes as they share what they have created, how they have grown, and what they have learned over the last few months. They need to go into the Disney trip with much off the planning under their belts.

 

Here are some tips:

• When you see them this week, ask to see their presentation brochures.
• Help them chart out how they will fill the time and exactly what product/information they will present. Remember how it was during our first year in front of a class?
• Encourage them to see their SPONSORS to consult about content and generate ideas.
• Please take time to look at their recent blog entries and make thoughtful comments.

 

Ask Mr. Snyder and me ANY questions.

Thanks for what you do for our students!

 

Larry

 

 

 

 

 

Snakes!

During our Senior Project nature walk, I found inspiration in the unlikeliest place. While poking around in the forest beside a reservoir pond clogged with chirping frogs, I encountered two massive black snakes unlike anything I had ever encountered in nature. Here I was, picking up sticks, thinking about making some kind of connection to the project, and here were two Northern Black Racers or Eastern Hognose snakes!

I called over two of my strapping male students to help me inspect my new find, and they took one look, gasped, and quickly skipped away. Miss Robertson, our nature junkie, fortunately got a good look at them.

Sometimes excitement and novelty pops out of the most unlikliest places.  I'm so glad that we took our walk and we need to do it again.