Hello!

Hello Everyone,


I am glad that we already had the opportunity to be at a school site, and be part of a learning experience. Two weeks ago we were in Parlier (Martinez Elementary School) and it was a great start. The program and children all ran together smoothly. I enjoy the student contact that I have been working with, and I am excited to continue after the holidays are over. My team and I are currently recruiting more student for the ELD Intervention program in Parlier so we busy with that and cannot wait to start up the program again. So far this semester has been a great learning experience and I am excited to continue learning more next semester.

Elizabeth Lara

HELLO EVERYONE!

Hello Everyone,

My name is Patricia Figueroa and I’m working with at Parlier ELD-Intervention 6^th-8^th.

I would like to share my experience at Martinez Elementary School. The couple of days at Martinez were fantastic. I really enjoy working with the students. Since we were unable to contact many families, our class was really small. Our class was so small that the first day of instruction we only had eight students who attend.

Even though, we were there a couple of days, it was a great experience. The couple days that I went, gave the opportunity to meet the students, interact with them, and help them with their homework. I really felt so happy to see how the students were well-behaved, attentive, prepare, and ready to learn.

Although, we suspended the program due to the low number of students enrolled, we will begin on January 11, 2011. Meanwhile, all our Parlier mentors including myself, are working hard to recruit more students, hoping to get more students enroll to our program and benefit from it.

Thank you, everyone!! and good luck!

Great Start!

The first week that I started having contact with students was exciting and was looking forward to working with the Parlier students. Unfortunately, the program was cancelled until new notice. On our last day of working with Parlier, Rebecca informed me that I was going to be transferred to San Joaquin, Golden Plains District, under Maria's supervision. At first I was a little sad because I had already gotten used to working with my assigned team, but then I got used to the change that was made. I'm starting to learn a lot already!

Last week was my first week working with the San Joaquin students. Right on the first day I thought, “Well, this is going to be easier than I thought.” The students were behaving well and they were willing to cooperate. Little did I know that the next two days were going to be a little challenging.

On the first day there was a student in particular who grabbed my attention because he was willing to help his classmates, as well as willing to share his materials with the others. He became a different person the next day. He started the class doing really good, then when he would decide he did not want to do anything anymore, he would just shut down; he would not participate, pay attention to the teacher, or play/interact with the other students.

When we talked to his mom about it (with the student presence), she admitted that part of his behavior was her fault, and that she needed/wants help. I noticed that when the student was listening to his mom; he started smiling, not to make fun of her, but he seem content. Our team is going to continue to do everything we can to successfully help this student develop his skills/abilities to positively build his own future.

In just those few minutes that we interacted with the student’s parent, I came to realize something; I had forgotten how important a parent is for a child’s life. My goal, for when we go back from our break, is to have daily contact (or maybe once or twice a week) with the child’s parent to let them know how their child is doing. This will be regardless of whether the child is behaving properly or misbehaving. I’ll share this with our team to see what they think about it.

~Gloria Baez

Hello everyone

We finally started working at Parlier, but then plans changed again and we will be returning to the schools next year. The days that I worked with the students were great; I had the opportunity to help with homework, to grade pre-assessments and to interact with students and their families.

I also went to the event at Fresno City College. I had the opportunity to interact with high school students and learn about the college awareness program and some of the services at Fresno City. I conducted a few interviews to the students, in which they expressed how much they learned and how much they liked this event. ..It was a success!!!!

I went to the training today and learned new ideas on how to deal with possible problems when doing phone calls or home visits. I learned that when contacting the families we need to be professional at all times, persistent when reaching out to our students, friendly, sensitive to different needs and be able to adapt to changes.

I will be doing some home visits this weekend; hopefully we can get more students to complete the pre-assessment and give out some flyers before our break.

Have a great Thanksgiving, be safe, spend quality time with your loved ones, and enjoy the food!!

-Bianey Ruiz

The College Awaeeness event at Fresno city college was a great success. A special thank u to d district staff mentors and students. You all rock! A total of
193 students attended the event.
E. Rodriguez.

IMAGES FROM THE 2010 CAP PROGRAM AT CSU FRESNO

Thank you all for making it such a great success!!!

E. Rodriguez

:-)

OMG !! I'm so happy that we finally start services on Monday at Martinez Elementary, in Parlier. Good luck to everyone... :-) Julieta Mendez

Yay:)

Finally we starting on monday at Parlier eventhogh im not place there but im glad that I'm going to be able to help into Colinga starts. yay this week we were just doing phone calls and home visits which it was hard to contact the parents but we still did as much as we could to get a hold of them and letting them know about our program benefitials........ Other than the im happy with students that are enroll because we know that we going to make a big change in their educational academicts!! Sincerilly Diana Mendez

:)

Hello,

Wow I can't believe that we are on Novembe already, time just fly.right now I am at Parlier showing a studetn how to fill out scholarship applications...

Raisig City

Helo: mentors, I have been going to raising city and I like it so far. the kids are great, some of them may behave but if I talk to them nicely they undesrtand. This is my first time in this program at first I though it would be difficult to handle but now I can say that it is a lot better than what I though .
This is a great program, most of the kids just love it, just like I do. there is nothing better than working with kids.

Hello Parlier!

Can't wait to start services at Martinez Elementary.

Rebecca Thao

Raisin City ELD

I been going to Raisin City for the Intervention ELD program. This is my second year with the program and it have been reformatted, so we are having to adapt to the changes. This is fine and understandable, we always should be ready to adapt to changes.

RAiSiN CiTY ELD

GOoOD MORNiNG EVERYONE!!!
Well, last week I was at Raisin City Elementary with the ELD Intervention Program. Our team was there because our teacher wanted us to get familiar with the routine of our after school program.
It was a lot easier than I was thinking it was going to be. It makes me feel confident for when my school starts.
The students in class, over all, were well behaved. They were very respectful and they did their work and participated in the activities. I was in the A/B class, so the majority of the students were in 3rd-5th grade.
I got familiar with names and faces and the students also are learning our names. So far, it was a good week. There are a few things the teachers and the mentor need to work on, but with time Im sure that things will make more progress. Looking forward to this week!

jesus

i had a great time working on my resiliency lesson #2.
the game is so much fun and i believe everyone played it at the leadership retreat,
because i know i did when i had that same retreat for camp.
well the object of the game is to huddle together with a certain number of students
so your boat doesn't sink. if for example, whoever ismaking the call yells out
"a boat of 6 is sinking" then you must try to get in a group of 6.
whichever group has more or less than 6, the whole group is out of the game.
until the game narrows down to 2, then those are the winners.

this is a very fun game to play with a lare group of people.
we should try it out sumtime =)

the only thing you need is a large group of students, someone making the call,
and a large open outdoor field.

:-)

These couple of weeks we have been workin on creating Reciliencey Lesson components of the ELD Intervention Program. We created and practice some of the lesson. I have learded a lot from the training and from my team of mentors and Rebecca. We are a very good team, and we all have a very good communication. I'm very happy to part of it. I'm also looking forward to meeting with my students, and guide them in their education.
Julieta Mendez :-)

HELLO EVERYONE!!

For this couple of weeks we have been prepariong Resilency Lessons to be prapare for the staring day in our schools. By doing this we know what it comes to our hands and we feel ready for it. I'm so glad of having this great communication with my team and having Rebecca as our supervisosr because she helps us in alots of things. she is such an orginized person that explains us what things are good for our students. I look forward to start next week and meet my students.... sincerly Diana Mendez

Hello Everyone!
For any of the Mentors who visit high school students or any high school student blogger, you might want to check these links for admission application fee waivers, and AB540 exemption requests. The fee waiver can also be filled out on csumentor but you may also send it to the college's admission office. And don't forget that the recommended date to complete the csumentor application is by October 25th for early registration.
http://www.csumentor.edu/faq/pdfs/fee_waiver.pdf
http://www.csulb.edu/depts/enrollment/assets/pdf/cal_nonres_tuition_exempt.pdf

Also through collegeboard, you can ckeck out the college applications checklist. This walks our students step by step to making sure they have everything needed as far as tests, financial aid, a and deadlines.
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/apply/the-application/8435.html

Have a great weekend!

Hello my name is Patricia Figueroa, I'm assigned to Parlier ELD-(6th-8th). These couple of weeks we have been working on creating Resiliency lessons for our students.It has been really great; getting everything ready to start at Parlier.I'm looking forward to meet our students! and guide them though out their academics.

Moreover,Rebecca has been doing such a great job !!guiding us and helping us through out this new experience for some of us that are new to the program.
All of us have accomplished many things in so little time! so lets keep it up!! and continue the good work!!!!

We Start Next Week..Yay!!!!!!

These past weeks we prepared for the academic and resiliency components of the ELD Intervention Program. Our team is ready to start; we already practiced the academic lessons and developed some lessons for the resiliency component. We have parent meeting next week and hopefully we can start making some phone calls or home visits. Besides the academic preparation and resiliency group work, I learned a lot from my new friends (Mentors and Rebecca...Go team!!!!!).

I want to acknowledge that Rebecca is a great teacher; she is organized and patient with her mentors and she has high expectations from us. She always has things for us to do, and we do not have time to stay behind, that’s a NO NO in our team.

We all have very good communication, we expect to make an impact in our students, and guide them in the right direction.

-Bianey Ruiz, Parlier District.

We are the ones who decide what's next!

Hello! My name is Gloria Baez, and I have been assigned to the ELD Intervention Program (6th-8th grade) at Golden Plains. This is my first year working with this program, so I’m a little nervous because I don’t know much of what to expect. But thankfully our team has already started preparing for the challenges that are waiting for us!

We have practice some of the lessons that may be offered to the students. At first I thought it was going to be easy to teach to a group of students a lesson that we had created ourselves, but then once we had to presented to others, I realized that not everything had come out the way we would plan our lessons to be. So in this sense I learned that I will always have to be ready for last minute lesson plan changes.

Each of us has been assigned to a district. In my case, I’m not the only one assisting Golden Plains, I have a partner; his name is Jesus. Rebecca, our lead teacher, has done a great job on guiding us to get comfortable with each other. Thanks to our partner/group assignments, I now understand that regardless of the goal that our team receives, we will be able to successfully accomplish it simply because we can rely on each other to get the job done!

One very important concept that I have understood is that the kids that we are going to be working with, are going to be greatly affected by us, not only because we are going to be helping them navigate through part of the educational system, but because we are the ones who are also going to contribute in providing them the basic tools to learn how to become responsible for their own future.

I can even predict that the greatest satisfaction that I will have at the end of the program is going to have realize that the students have develop their capabilities beyond than what they have imagined themselves capable of. Believing in them is all it takes to make a difference in their lives.

Yes, I may be a little nervous, but at the same time I’m excited and eager to start working with the students! I hope that all of our goals are lofty because I know that we can accomplish anything if we all work as a team!

THE MENTORS AT WORK!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CYNTHIA PAZ!!!

ON BEHALF OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICE/RESILIENCY PROGRAM, WE WOULD LIKE TO WISH YOU A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!

Hello all. I hope all is well. I had the opportunity to meet with Mrs. Thao's group this afternoon. To my great surprise, they were working on lessons for the resiliency portion of our program. The work that the mentors are doing is amazing! I t is evident that they are not only willing but eager to begin their mission. These are emotions that come from the heart. With your dedication and the guidance of our teachers and staff, we can guarantee that our students will be self-determined and empowered to succeed in any personal and academic journey they wish to pursue!

p.s. the following cartoon was presented to us by Gloria Baez. Resilience any one???

Thank you,

Alfredo Ponce

Happy:)

Hi everyone Im Diana MendeZ. This is my first year being part of the mentoring program and im so exited for it!! I cant wait to Start and meet the students. Im so happy to Work with students and encorange them to reach their dreams in education and at the same time make a big change in their lifes.... I look forward to learn az much as i can so i can be able to say i did it...good luck for everyone Sincerely Diana Mendez

Hello!

Hi everyone !!
Hello! My mane is Julieta I'm very excited to start my fist year being part of mentoring program. It's a honor be part of it. I'm really enjoy working with all the mentors. Its a delight for me to help students reach their dreams for a better education. I'm very enthusiastic to work with them and encourage them, to never give up and continue follow their dreams. I look forward to learning as much I can for all students. 
Julieta Mendez

Jesus Contreras

Hello!
I am a first year student at Fresno State
GO BULLDOGS!!
well I graduated from Sanger High School
and I am planning on studying Kinesiology.
I am excited to get started at my school sight
I am also looking forward to meeting my students and workng with them.

Hello everyone,

I am excited to start this year's program and meet my students in Parlier. These past weeks we have been preparing lessons and practicing them within our team. I learned a lot from the other mentors, who give positive feedback and good advice for future presentations. Once in our site I hope to help students academically, be a guide for them to accomplish their dreams, and make a difference in how they view themselves in the future.

Good luck to all!!
Bianey Ruiz

New Year

Hello Everyone! I am excited to start a new year and be part of an important role in someones life! I have been learning a lot through out these couple of weeks. I have gained a deeper understanding o f how important a mentor can be to a student. Also, I’ve learned the meaning of resiliency. Lastly I also have learned different ways in which we can apply a resiliency lesson to a student. Three things that I hope to accomplish by Christmas 2010 while on the job are as followed: How to expose students to gain resiliency, assist the teacher in ELD programs and develop effective lessons plans that will enhance the student’s resiliency. I am looking forward a great year with Migrant Education!


Elizabeth Lara

:-)

Hello everyone, my name is Patricia Figueroa I'm really excited to start.!! This is my first year being part of the program, so I'm really happy to be part of it. I'm really looking forward to make a difference in students' education; by encouraging them to work hard to attain their goals in life.

Let's Get It Started!

Hi Everyone!
Every time I meet with the students, I get more excited at all the possibilities and opportunities that lay ahead of them! I know that this year will be successful because our mentors ROCK! I got really excited after our Credit Recovery Team meeting. So many great ideas were shared, and it was obvious that the mentors truly care about our students. Seriously. :)
Veleda

Migrant JR/SR at Fresno State "A HUGE SUCCESS"

I would like to thank the following mentors for assisting the Thursday Oct. 7 Migrant JR/SR Day at Fresno State.

• Janeth Vega


• Carlos Ojeda


• Luis Ojeda


• Marisela Covarrubias


• Janet Castañeda


• Hector Prado


• Adi Cisneros

Hope you had a wonderful experience of what the college Awareness entitles and how you are a critical part of the team. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!

If you were unable to attend due to class conflicts or other reasons......we will be having our Migrant College Day Nov. 18th at Fresno City College. Recruitment assistance is always welcomed.

Hello Mentors/Staff!

Quick reminder

Mentor meetings:

Thursday Oct. 14, 2010 2-4pm

Friday Oct. 15, 2010 1-3 pm

Let us know what you are up to...

Staff

Fresno State Jr/ Sr Day 2010

Hello everybody, my name is Jannet and I am a tutor for the CASHEE Intervention Program. Over the past few weeks we've been learning many things. I can't wait to go out and work with the students. I recently attended the Fresno State junior/senior day and it was amazing. I got a chance to see how the program works and what will be expected to do as mentors. I am excited to work with all the students and I hope that everyone enjoys this school year.

-Jannet Castaneda

I am so excited to get started!

Rebecca Thao

It's a new year and a Fresh Start!
I'm excited to start a new year of Mentoring for the 2010-2011 school year. I will be mentoring at Tranquility High School and I have so many plans and goals running through my head that I just want to jump right in there. I am enthusiastic about meeting my new mentees and working along with my partner to inspire these students once more. It's exciting to see some of the students from last year's mentoring program walking to their classes at the same college I go to. I hope we can do the same and more for Tranquility High School.

Welcome to the 2010-2011 school year

We are all highly enthused with the quality, enthusiasm, and intellectual capacity of all of our mentors. We cannot wait to begin to develop relationships and connections with our students. We expect that these will be life changing experiences for all of us and all and all of them. As we begin this journey together, lets us remember that our goals are to reduce the feelings of disenfranchisement and increase a sense of belonging for all folks we work with. Most importantly, always remember that our ultimate goal is to ensure that our students progress academically! When their attendance, GPA's, Test scores, graduation rates, college enrollment rates, college graduation rates... have improved, we truly have succeeded in fulfilling our mission "to inspires success through empowerment and self-determinaiton".

EDConnection Staff.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Community

Migrant Pirates achieve club status
Monica Ferreyra (left) is the Reedley High Migrant Club Vice-President, and Tania Alvarado (right) is club president.

By Ashley Testa
Published: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:43 PM PDT

Like a mama bear protecting her cub, Reedley High School migrant students instinctively fought for their cause. They wanted a district-recognized club of their own, and did everything in their power to make it happen.“These kids were so excited about just having a place to meet,” advisor Doris Rosales said. “This was an area where they could actually speak how they felt.”Kings Canyon Unified School District trustees recently approved the school’s Migrant Club, allowing the group to participate in school activities, hold fundraisers and organize community service projects.“The club actually came from them,” Rosales said. “They didn’t feel like they could connect to other clubs as much as they connected here.”The road to club status began last fall, when the Fresno County Office of Education Migrant Program assigned a Fresno State student to mentor RHS migrants. Janeth Vega, a migrant herself, began by simply asking students about their goals.“She could relate to the kids really well,” Rosales said. Vega explained the requirements that students needed to meet to attain their goals, and why certain classes were important. She met with the children individually, reviewed their grades, and helped create personalized road maps for success. Vega and Rosales discovered the students had admirable goals, but didn’t know how to achieve them.“It’s interesting, because a lot of kids weren’t on track for their credits,” Rosales said. “We found out that many kids didn’t even pay attention to their grades, and didn’t know that you had to have credits in various topics.”Inspired by Vega’s mentorship, students began meeting informally to discuss their goals. They presented their idea for a club at last year’s migrant parent mini-conference at Reedley High, proudly calling themselves “Migrant Pirates.”The students agreed to leave negative influences behind and commit to academic success. They passed out sheets of paper for parents to sign their support, and created a poster board explaining their mission. Last May, the students elected club officers and listed 25 confirmed members on their application to the district.“We started with a small group of eight or nine the beginning part of the year to get migrant students to have a sense of belonging,” Rosales said. “From there, word got out among the students that they wanted to have a club. By the end of the semester, we had about 30 to 40 kids.”President Tania Alvarado said the club has boosted her confidence, allowing her to speak in front of large groups with ease. She learned about school graduation requirements, how to reach goals, and the importance of community involvement. Alvarado plans to apply for the nursing program at CSU Sacramento, and wants to organize fundraisers for college field trips.“It’s helped me a lot,” she said. “Before, I didn’t really think about what I wanted to do after high school.” Alvarado also wants to volunteer at local retirement homes, raise money for the needy, and clean up the community.Vice president Monica Ferreyra said the club not only explains graduation requirements, but the reasons behind them. “We take classes, but we don’t know why we are taking them – so we get behind,” she said. “I’m an AVID student so I know the requirements, but a lot of students don’t.”Ferreyra said that migrant students needed this club, and Vega inspired them to speak up. “She helped us come out of our quiet zone,” Ferreyra said. “Now we can help others with what we learned from her.” Club officers want to inform members about college requirements and scholarship information, and raise money to visit a college campus at the end of the year.Ferreyra plans to apply to UCLA and become a Spanish or Chicano teacher. She made the decision after taking a Spanish Native Speaker class at RHS. “I learned a lot of different things about my culture, and it made me want to learn more,” she said.Membership is open to migrant and non-migrant students, and students will decide what activities they want to focus on. Rosales said that members have expressed interest in community service, volunteering at school events, holding food drives and fundraising for field trips.“They’re going to be learning leadership skills that will help them develop as a person, and help their self-esteem,” Rosales said. Organizers plan to hold the first club meeting in September and continue once a week during lunch. They’ll gather in advisor Arnulfo Sanchez’s classroom, and identify worthwhile causes to address. Advisors plan to keep students on track academically with goal-setting discussions and progress checks.As part of the district’s new service agreement, advisors will offer an eight-week computer class to migrant parents, starting in October. They will explain the PowerSchool program, computer fundamentals and required student curriculum. “The parents are working so hard, that sometimes they’re not aware of all the requirements,” Rosales said.

HAVE A WONDERFUL AND FRUITFUL 2010-2011

To be educated is to be shaped, to be inspired is to be

transformed!

Find your True colors and make sure they always shine!

The MCMP Staff

Reedley's beach

ahhh and these are some pictures of the day that I went to Reedley's beach with los muchachos de RHS. That day we had a lot of fun and we knew each other more. By the way the food was delicious we had pozole, flautas, enchiladas, pastel, chocoflan, sopes, tacos al vapor etc ahhh and everything was homemade I even remember that Griselda and Jimena made the cake and the chocoflan mmmm everything was delicious :)

Parlier's trip

Here are some pictures of Parlier's trip to Dysneyland. wow we did a lot of activities for this trip to happen, los muchachos vendieron dulces, pizza durante los dias de los juegos de la escuela y Maria, Adrian y yo nos quedabamos despues de escuela to get the money we needed to accomplish our dream but we did it yay!!!

Parlier's Mini-Conference

Como pueden ver en la mini-conferencia de Parlier Adrian y yo tuvimos una mesa de informacion ahhh y los muchachos y Maria Aguilar hicieron el poster ke tenemos en la mesa con fotografias de las diferentes actividades que hemos hecho, como de los viajes a otras universidades y del servicio comunitario.

aki tambien esta el mentor German (once a mentor always a mentor jajajaj) tambien en la otra foto estan los estudiantes ke ese dia hicieron servicio comunitario.

Ramirez Family

In this picture we see the Ramirez Family. Tamara Carter referred this family to me, I went to visit them por muy poco tiempo porque el programa se termino pero me di cuenta de ke esta familia se beneficiaria enormemente del programa de mentoria y de hecho a la mama le gusto mucho la idea de estar en este programa.

Hellooo!!!

I know we are in vacation but I want to share with all of you this picture of Cristian a student from Sanger. Cristian esta en el 5to grado y lo estuve llendo a visitarlo varias veces. Cristian me fue referido por Yolanda Mata y me senti muy contenta de haber convivido con Cristian y su familia.

En esta foto Cristian y yo nos fuimos a comer al Jack the last day that I visited him. ahhh I also bought cheeseburguers for his four siblings... they were happy =)

Graduation Party

Dear Staff,

Quedan corrialmente invitados a mi fiesta de graduacion el dia 23 de Mayo de las 3 en adelante. For GPS info txt me or email me at gramirez_04@mygman.com, RESERVATION REQUIRED. Hope to see u guys there.

want to share some pictures of our last day in Reedley High School. wow it was awesome working with Reedley. I learned a lot from my students and I am sure they also did learned a lot from me. I want to say thanks to all my students because they were always at our meetings participating and giving the best of themselves. I also want to say thanks to Doris Rosales Josefina and Silvia, thanks with out you the success of the mentoring program at Reedley wouldn't be possible.

Thanks

Friday was The last day we visited our students and they were really happy to have us the past three months they all wished we'd stay longer. We reviewed what they learned through our visits and I was excited on how much they said. Many said calculating their GPA, requirments for college A-G, teamwork, sense of belonging and confidence!! This wa a great experienced and thank you to all migrant staff on campus and at the office you made it an amazing experience.

REMINDER

END OF THE YEAR MCMP GATHERING

ME N ED'S PIZZA PARLOR

CEDAR & ASHLAN

3:00- 5:00 p.m.

Come hungry and ready to reflect and laugh....

No crying allowed.

Thank you for your hard work and dedication.

Eddie, Alfredo, and Janelle

Were at kings canyon and we just finished with the first group of students and we played basketball. They really enjoyed it and we discussed the importance of working as a team and trying hard even when your not good at it. We had all our students make a basket and they were all excited!!

Wednesdays meeting went great we had a full class room and we played people bingo. They really enjoyed it and we made it a competition. Went great!

Caruthers hs end o year bash

Thank u Ricardo yadira miss cabrera mr iñiguez and d rest of d staff.
It was a great year. Lots of fun but most importantly lots o learning.
We wish u nothing but d best.
Alfredo Eddie and Janelle.

Ks ms end o year celebration

Thank u panhia Yesenia kcms staff and students. They sAy
A picture tells a thousand stories. I will let u analyze this one. It
just gives me such a sense of satisfaction. Congratulations on a
wonderful year.
Alfredo Eddie And Janelle....

End o year celebration. Ks ms

Thank u panhia Yesenia and all of d ks staff. They say a picture says
a thousand words. I will let u interpret this one

West Fresno end o year bash

Thank u Hmong, Cesar Miss. Pianetta Mr. Mendoza and all of d students.
All of d students are full of hope and prepared to begin their hs
careers. They seem to know d A-G rewuirements back and forth. They are
full confidence and ready to conquer their dreams. Great job guys....
Alfredo, Eddie and Janelle.

Tranquility end o year bash. Really...

Tranquility hs end o year bash. Thank u Jose and Martina and d all of
d golden plains staff.
Although u started late, u had d one of d largest groups. D students
were wonderful and full of hope and gratitude. D tacos d asada and all
of d desserts were wonderful. I had about 6 tacos and lots of flan.
Eddie was shy. He only had 5. All of s students had doggie bags and
Martina took d rest. About 16 tacos worth. College students... I
cleaned of course. Lupe did... Good luck students at uc Merced, csu
Fresno, Fresno city college and d rest...

Mendota hs end o year bash.

Thank u Maria Adi Marie and all of d students for a great year. U
girls are all going to do great things. Good luck in college. Alfredo
Eddie and Janelle.

Parlier hs award cerony.

Thank u Maria, Adrian, Janeth, and all of d students of d migrant
club. U had a great year. It is a great beginning for 2010-2011 school
year. Here r 6 of 30+ students in d club. Dream big work hard and take
chances....
Alfredo, Eddie and Janelle.

GREAT JOB MENTORS....YOUR HARD WORK AND DEICATION IS BEING VIEWED BY OTHERS AROUND THE STATES!!!

I received this email and wanted to share it with you.................

Eddie,
Good Morning, my name is Jose Leon and I work for the Harlem Education Activities Fund. A college preparatory organization that is focused on a social justice curriculum. We are bringing a group of youth out from Harlem to work with youth from the Dolores Huerta Foundation. We would like for the youth learning about the opportunities that your program offers Migrant students. Below is the web site for the organization and the proposed schedule we would like you to participate in. Thank you for your time.
www.heaf.org

FROM COALINGA-HURON SCHOOL DISTRICT

Martina,

I want to thank you for your dedication this year in mentoring our students. Your commitment to our students was invaluable. I know the amount of time, preparation, and effort you demonstrated had a positive effect on our students. I know our students benefited from your continued interest in their education.

I wish you the best in your education and career.

Paul A. Garcia, Director
Migrant, English Language Learners and Auxiliary Programs
Coalinga-Huron Unified School District

Kings canyon ms end of year ceremony

End of the Year Celebration

Mendota's College Mentoring program celebrated its ending day on Friday. The girls were very thankful for all of the services provided to them and all the guidance. Maria and I have also been thankful for all of the girls. They have been cooperative, dedicated, and extremely respectful. Maria and I had a good time working along them;-)

QUESTiON ALL MENTORS + STAFFS

Did we get our mileage stipend already?? For March? I lost count. LOL. Please let me know
thank you. =)

West Fresno!

HELLO EVERYONE! TODAY ME AND CEASAR WENT TO VISIT WEST FRESNO ALONG WITH EDDIE AND ALFREDO. TODAY WE GATHER A GOOD AMOUNT OF STUDENTS AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK MR. MENDOZA FOR HELPING OUT. WE TALKED ABOUT THE END OF THE YEAR EVALUATION AND ALSO TALKED ABOUT GOAL-SETTING BECAUSE THEIR S.A.T TEST ARE COMING UP IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS. WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE PREPARE FOR IT. EVEN THOUGH THERE WASN'T MUCH FOOD I THINK IT WENT GREAT. THE STUDENTS REALLY ENJOYED MEETING EDDIE AND ALFREDO. WE ALSO INTRODUCED THEM MORE ABOUT THE MIGRANT WEBSITE. WELL THANKS AGAIN TO EDDIE AND ALFREDO FOR TAKING THEIR TIME OFF TO COME VISIT THE WORK THAT CEASAR AND I DO. OTHER THAN THAT I WANT TO THANK CEASAR FOR BEING A WONDERFUL PARTNER.

~GO MENTORS!

Janeth, sorry but i couldnt make it, my car se me descopuso n we r fixing it right now (yeah we, mi primo ps, lol)! Sorry espero y la haigan pasado bien.

I just asked my secretaria to reschedule on of my citas for next week cuz even by doing it, i will still be very busy. Lol Paresco todo un empresario lol Buy haver si voy un ratito. Um gonna take my camara if i go.

TO THE RIVER

uyuyuyu que ocupado jajajaja. Pues quedamos de vernos todos a la 1 PM ahi en el rio mmmm los muchachos quedaron de llevar flautas, tostadas, pollo y muchas otras comidas so no es necesario que lleves nada a menos que tu quieras. ojala tu secretaria pueda hacerte un espacio en tu agenda tan apretada lol.

TODOS ESTAN INVITADOS!!! VA A ESTAR DIVERTIDO

G.man

THE BRAND THAT IS GONNA TAKE OVER HOLLISTER & AE, AND EVEN A&F LOL ESPERENLAAAAAAAAAAAAA.... LOL COMO QUE SUENO MUCHO VERDAD.

UPDATES:

Hello all, I hope everyone is having a great time and doing good in school. I just wanted to share a bit with you guys what we did as a closing ceremony for our students. It went pretty well. We had about 22-25 students that show up. We did not expected that many but we were glad that they did show up. Yesenia and I made each of our students a certificate to show our appreciation of them being part of the program. For these kids, I can see that receiving a certificate means something to them because probably they do not receive any often or possible chance of none at all. As for the food, we tried to make it as healthy as it can be for them avoiding the junk food. We taught them about what is consider healthy and what is not. I think that's part of the health session that we were suppose to incorporate. Anyways, we had them make their own sandwich and we asked them to try it with veggies. The sandwiches composed of wheat bread, 98% fat free ham & turkey, fresh cut lettuce, fresh slice tomato, light mayo. We also had them eat yogurt. The yogurt were made out of fruits, fresh slice strawberries and kiwi. The only kind of fatty and sugary thing we had for them was the capris sun drinks and the chips. Other than the food, I personally had a great time with the students along with Dr. Ponce, Eddie and Yesenia. Our students were full of energy and ate mostly everything we bought. =) I did see a change with these students and they had become a lot closer to Yesenia and I. After Eddie and Alfredo left, Yesenia and I stick around with the boys. Instead of playing games, we actually had a group conversation about what are gangs and how you can stay away from it etc. I was surprised these guys were very open up with us (you don't usually find guys doing that =)) . We had a great time overall, I know I kept saying that LOL. When we were about to leave, they didn't want us to, they kept telling us to stay but unfortunately, it was getting late and I'm sure most of their parents were expecting them home already. Well, Ima stop now. I dont think you guys are gonna want to read this much. ;D Hope everything goes well and have fun with your closing ceremonies. Remember, we already made a difference in our students live now lets continue the hard work. =)

Se llama Readley Beach Okkkkkkkk Janeth jk lol

Como que river apoco piensas que no hay playas locales. ahhahahahahaha

At what time are you guys gonna go? It is cuz i have to ask my secretary to double check my agenda lol it has been full y ps no se si pueda. lol

Let me know at what time n hopefully i can make it.

g.man

Today at Reedley

Today I visited my students at Reedley. We are going to have una comida this saturday at Reedley's river so if any of you is interesed in going please just let me know.I am planning to do some of the same activities that we do at our leadership camps. esto es porque muchos de mis estudiantes se quedaron con ganas de ir a los campamentos. mmmmm si algunos mentores pudieran ir y hacer una presentacion estaria super. Entiendo que es muy pronto pero no tiene que ser algo muy elaborado o si nadamas quieren ir a contar sus experiencias como estudiantes de la universidad y a pasar un buen rato tambien estaria bien.


Ahh German si pudieras ir te lo agradeceria porque si que voy a necesitar ayuda.

So all Mentors are invited :)

Hi everybody

Thaks German for posting some pictures from Dysney, ahhhhh and yourwelcome this trip to Dysney was one of our dreams when we started the Mentoring Program entonces tenias que estar ahi porque tenias que estar ahi jajajajaj.
Pues el viaje a Dysney estuvo padrisimo todos nos divertimos muchisimo lo unico malo fue que el desfile de en la noche se cancelo por los fuertes vientos pero aun asi nos la pasamos super.
Quiero agradecer a Maria Aguilar the migrant liaison de Parlier por toda su ayuda sin ella este viaje no hubiera sido posible. Thanks Maria.

Hello all I hope all is well. I hope you"all had a great holiday. As we begin to wind down a very productive and fulfilling year it is time to reflect on our journeys. We (team) have achieved so much. Some of the success can be quantified: The number of college applications completed, scholarships, statements of purpose, financial aid applications, GPA points, CSU Mentor accounts, E-mail accounts created, AB 540 applications, CAMP application submissions, parent phone calls, mini conferences, community service hours, A-G course enrollments, 1 trip to Dysneyland...(please fill add to the list).... WOW...
Unfortunately some of may not be quantifiable. We can just expect that our students are now on a different and more productive path... I cannot begin to imagine how many lives you have touched, and I cannot begin to predict how many lives they will affect in turn, but I know that this year... we have worked hard... very hard... and all I can say is THANK YOU! The best way to show my gratitude is to ask you for more... to not give up and keep giving more...
Like German says and shows us daily... ONCE A MENTOR... ALWAYS A MENTOR!

EL COLADOOOOOOOOO LOL

HELLO GUYS....

I JUST WANNA SHARE SOME PICS FROM THE DISNEYLAD TRIP... FINALLY THE MIGRANT CLUB BECAME A REALITY... NOMAS HECHE EL TORO AL RUEDO Y DEJE QUE LO TOREARAN... BUT I KNOW ADRIAN & JANETH ARE DOING A GREAT JOB. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MARIA & JANETH FOR INVITING ME TO THIS TRIP. IT HAD A LOT OF FUN. I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE ALL THE (??? LOL) MY CREW N I WERE MAKING. LOL GO TO http://s620.photobucket.com/home/gramirez_04/index PARA MIRAR MAS FOTOS.

SALUDOS

G.MAN

Hellooooooo

and he is a really nice boI also want to share with you that I am going to visit a student at Sanger. Im really glad I can help Cristian and his family. He is on the 5th grade and he is a great boy.

Reedley HS

wow I have to many things to say that I don't even know were to start, anyways I"ll start by sharing with you algo de lo que ha pasado en Reedley. durante las semanas pasadas tuvimos elecciones para los puestos de nuestro club. Los muchachos estan muy entusiasmados y hasta ya estan eligiendo el logo y slogan de las playeras. Manana vamos a terminar de elegir las playeras y tambien les voy a dar e;

el questionario del programa para ver cuales son las necesidades que los muchachos tienen para asi poder servirles mejor. Im really exited about our activities at Reedley and the best is that my students are exited too. ahhhhh la miniconferencia en Reedley fue todo un exito y varios de mis estudiantes hicieron comunity service. Gracias muchachos.

We just got back from Disneyland! It was Fun Fun Fun! Parlier Migrant Club!

Friday's meeting went great. We continued to play the Mafia card game since lunch A didn't get to play on Wednesday and we also had them reflect on the purpose of the game. There all excited for April 7 ceremony/party. Have a great Spring break!!

Just an update we are having fun at Disneyland! N der is more coming up! att: Janeth

Wow is kool! I can post just by texting! Well just want to let u guys know dat da migrant conference at Parlier was todo un exito! We will post pics one we get back from Disneyland! Parlier Migrant Club #1

Just testing my iphone

Multimedia message

Hello, my name is Ivan Huerta and I am attending Coalinga High School. My interest major is Game Design. I chose this major because I envision myself working in the Nintendo Corp. My grade point average is a 4.0 GPA. My intensions are to attend UC Santa Cruz or UC Merced. I want to be in the best clubs to go to college and  be the best I can be.

Hello everyone,
Yesturday Pahnia and I went to kings canyon middle school and played the mafia game during lunch. All the students really liked the game and we will play again Friday since they requested it. The point of the game is see how there are times in life were we have to make decisions or others make decisions and were affected by them and have no control. The game is played with cards and it was my first time playing as well and I really enjoyed it. We also had our afterschool meeting and the session was about GPA calculation, clubs and what resources are available in highschool that they need to be aware of. We also discussed better study habits and they developed educational goals to improve their GPA's. We have scheduled our migrant party to say our goodbyes for April 7, 2010 afterschool.
Have a great spring break and I will report about Friday soon enough.

Hello Mentors,
I wanted to tell you guys about our day at Tranquillity. Today we went in state of mind of doing team building activities with the students. At first we noticed that the students were very shy to participate because of the other students who may have been looking at them. But after getting started there was no way to stop them in their activities. Take a look for yourself. Below you will find pictures of the activities.

Multimedia message

Multimedia message

Multimedia message

Multimedia message

Multimedia message

Multimedia message