.Hi everyone!
For this week's blog I wanted to talk about how much our students continue to amaze me and make me proud!
It's been over 2.5 years that we started GLINC - approaching 3 years in December - and the level of pride continues to steadily rise. What sparked this topic is the commencement of our after school program for the 2013-2014 school year. Just last week we had our welcome sessions at Campbell High School and our new addition, Osborne High School.
We have only been at Osborne for one year so we still have a ways to go to catch up to the degree of our Campbell relationships, but I have a strong feeling we are well on our way! The students that bravely came to our program without knowing who we were have returned for the second year. First, I must give credit and thanks where it's due so KUDOS to our Osborne student leaders Gracie Gallegos and Jose Godinez. They are our greatest leaders, recruiters, promoters and supporters at OHS. They have helped made it possible for GLINC to establish themselves at OHS and continue to grow through their relationships with the teachers and administrators and most importantly, their peers. Gracie and Jose are currently seniors so they will be missed immensely, but at the same time, I am happy to see them grow as young adults that will continue to create change in their community as we have encouraged them to do through our mission and programming.
Osborne, just you wait! Slowly but surely everyone will know who GLINC is and what we stand for!
Campbell High School in a way has been our baby. Our first school to test run our program and help us mold ourselves into the successful program that we are today. We have seen two classes of seniors graduate and students that started our program as freshmen that are now seniors! (Fiorella Lazo ::cough cough::)
We had 28 students at Campbell's first session! Lots of old faces but also a good amount of new ones! That's what we like to see and all thanks to our current students that spread the word about us! As long as we continue to see that students come back year after year and bring in their friends, we will continue to strive for the best for you guys! More fun and interactive ways to teach life enriching skills, more relationship building with our community partners/members, more fun field trips and most importantly creating a stronger bond with our youth - our future generation.
So I say all this to try to express my joy y orgullo que tengo para mis estudiantes y los miembros ejecutivos de GLINC que han ayudado hacer este sueño mío una realidad.
We are starting off our 3rd year strong and I know it will it only get better from here!
2014 here we come!
With much gratitude and EXCITEMENT,
Melissa Gutiérrez
For this week's blog I wanted to talk about how much our students continue to amaze me and make me proud!
It's been over 2.5 years that we started GLINC - approaching 3 years in December - and the level of pride continues to steadily rise. What sparked this topic is the commencement of our after school program for the 2013-2014 school year. Just last week we had our welcome sessions at Campbell High School and our new addition, Osborne High School.
We have only been at Osborne for one year so we still have a ways to go to catch up to the degree of our Campbell relationships, but I have a strong feeling we are well on our way! The students that bravely came to our program without knowing who we were have returned for the second year. First, I must give credit and thanks where it's due so KUDOS to our Osborne student leaders Gracie Gallegos and Jose Godinez. They are our greatest leaders, recruiters, promoters and supporters at OHS. They have helped made it possible for GLINC to establish themselves at OHS and continue to grow through their relationships with the teachers and administrators and most importantly, their peers. Gracie and Jose are currently seniors so they will be missed immensely, but at the same time, I am happy to see them grow as young adults that will continue to create change in their community as we have encouraged them to do through our mission and programming.
Osborne, just you wait! Slowly but surely everyone will know who GLINC is and what we stand for!
Campbell High School in a way has been our baby. Our first school to test run our program and help us mold ourselves into the successful program that we are today. We have seen two classes of seniors graduate and students that started our program as freshmen that are now seniors! (Fiorella Lazo ::cough cough::)
We had 28 students at Campbell's first session! Lots of old faces but also a good amount of new ones! That's what we like to see and all thanks to our current students that spread the word about us! As long as we continue to see that students come back year after year and bring in their friends, we will continue to strive for the best for you guys! More fun and interactive ways to teach life enriching skills, more relationship building with our community partners/members, more fun field trips and most importantly creating a stronger bond with our youth - our future generation.
So I say all this to try to express my joy y orgullo que tengo para mis estudiantes y los miembros ejecutivos de GLINC que han ayudado hacer este sueño mío una realidad.
We are starting off our 3rd year strong and I know it will it only get better from here!
2014 here we come!
With much gratitude and EXCITEMENT,
Melissa Gutiérrez