Highs, Lows, and Howard Schultz

Letha making her thank you note gorgeous!

Another day of feeling like I ran through the whole day and my feet never touched the ground. Started off the day at Stadium High School where I talked to about 20 students to see if they want to join Hilltop Scholars. Some of my current Hilltop Scholars joined the conversation to encourage students to join us. Thanks kiddos! Big thanks to Stadium staff, Principal Barnum, Mr. Harris, Ms Pearcy, and Ms Bright for all of their help. I was very impressed with how easy it was to work with the staff at Stadium. Back at work I met with an AmeriCorps, then met with Professor Houston from University of Puget Sound. We are looking at how my students and her students can work together and learn from each other.

Just one class today. The Freshmen and Sophomores are combined into once class this semester. They spent some time getting their binders organized. It had been a while so it was quite a task, especially for Antonio. Perfect binder and notes scores today: Letha, Serena, Angelina! Yay!

While we organized binders, one student shared her highs and lows for the day. Sometimes they just need to talk and I’m happy that they feel CLASS is a safe place to talk it out.

They wrote some thank you notes to donors and they put some effort into them, sprucing the notes up with colored pencils and markers. It was kinda cute to see how hard they worked on these. Letha described her artwork as “FRESH.” (See attached photos).

We are going on a field trip to Starbucks corporate headquarters next week so I had the students listen to Tavis Smiley interviewing Howard Schultz on how he helped to revive Starbucks. They learned that he is dedicated to Starbucks and considers it his “baby.” He closed all of the Starbucks for a day to re-train everyone and took a lot of criticism for it. They thought he was humble when he said the revival of Starbucks wasn’t because of him, he was just a catalyst.

Then it was time to get ready to go recruiting at Foss High School tomorrow. Long day, but very productive.