Love In Abundance – College Must Begin in 8th Grade
Life and Precollege Preparatory Program
An additional truth LIA takes into consideration as we ponder assistance extended to our students is students are people first. As people, we perform our best when all facets of who we are have been addressed and attended to. The College Must Begin in 8th Grade Life and Precollege Preparatory Program is a monthly four phase program introducing:
- The Program – Addressing a different societal or academic area of concern on a monthly basis
- A Practical Application-Provide an avenue to connect with the societal expectation or academic concern
- An Alternate View - Introduce another way to view the societal need or academic area of concern, and
- Peer-on-Peer mentoring – Allow students to teach all lessons to younger, grade level students
LIA begins by introducing all programs on a quarterly basis – to keep the focus small enough to grasp our student’s attention, and vast enough to incorporate standard business practices to gain insight into life in the real world – through each program introduced.
1st Quarter
- 1st Quarter Programs: Power of Effective Writing, Social Capital, and Economic
- Effective Writing Skills are used to show the power therewith, and to help students formulate for herself, the strength or power of positive versus negative friends, associates, and networking (Social Capital). When money is added to show the ability of friends to affect or influence the degree of money earned in the future; how to budget, save, and give back as life norm adaptations works to show our students how to create her own level of self sufficiency (Economic Capital)
Students come to understand how these three life skills can create the foundation for her dreams to come into volition, and aide her in becoming a success in anything she chooses to take on.
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MONTHLY AREA OF CONCERN INTRODUCED |
PRACTICAL LIFE APPLICATION ACTIVITY |
PERSONAL BOUNDARY EXPANSION AACTIVITY |
COMMUNITY SERVICE EVENT |
| October– Power of Effective Writing (Sentence?, Good Paragraphs, Essays) |
Private College Writing Symposium Private University |
Public College U of H Poetry Jams (Aide students in alternative view of writing) |
Peer on Peer Mentoring Writing Labs Younger Students Public University |
| November – Social Capital (Friends, Business/Social Networking) |
Local Business/Student Informational Community College |
College Student Networking Event |
Peer on Peer Mentoring Networking Community College |
| December – Economic Capital (Budgeting, Saving, Giving as Life Norm) |
Department of Treasury Educational |
Introduction of Stock Market Game Business Professional |
Peer on Peer Mentoring Finances Bank Conference Room |
2nd Quarter
- 2nd Quarter Programs: Symbolic Capital, What Type of Listener Are You…, Cultural Capital
- Careers are introduced based on subject matter or area of interest, and students are introduced to the clubs and organizations affiliated with the career selected-for an infusion of other talents becoming real (Symbolic Capital); When students understand how she Listens, she is able to modify or enhance those skills for the ability enhanced listening skills can add to her life. This returns the focus to her attitude toward her education, and the power affiliated with a successful educational experience in each phase of her education leading to her aspired for career (Cultural Capital).
This quarter’s focus is on showing our students the power role she has to play in actually reaching her aspired level of success.
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MONTHLY AREA OF CONCERN INTRODUCED |
PRACTICAL LIFE APPLICATION ACTIVITY |
PERSONAL BOUNDARY EXPANSION AACTIVITY |
COMMUNITY SERVICE EVENT |
| January – Symbolic Capital (Clubs & Organizations Affiliated w/Career) |
National Organizations Informational Community College |
Friendship PSA Love In Abundance, Inc Website |
Peer on Peer Mentoring Rap Sessions Community College |
| February – What Type of Listener Are You? (3 Listener Types) |
Emergency Personnel, First Responders, &/or City Council Personnel |
Debate Competition Personal Conversation vs. Persuasive Commentary |
Peer on Peer Mentoring Persuasive Conversation vs. Personal Commentary |
| March – Cultural Capital (Who Am I?, External Presentation, Persuasive Conversation vs. Personal Commentary) |
Corporate Expectations for Advancement
Corporate Environment |
LOVE Ladies: Self Efficacy Weekend THEME: Loving Me Just as I Am! |
Peer on Peer Mentoring Are You Really Going to Wear That? |
3rd Quarter
- 3rd Quarter Programs: How’s Your Self Talk, What Does Your External View Say About You…, Business/Social Manners & Etiquette
- A pivotal factor in achieving the desired level of success is initiated in the conversation one has with oneself regarding the probability of becoming a success. Students are introduced to the role her conversation to herself plays in the permissions she gives herself to advance or regress in her life (How’s Your Self Talk?). Once identified, the student is ready to evaluate her physical presentation in all areas of her life (…External View Say?), which leads right into the level or proficiency of her behavior being acceptable in the life advancing avenues she chooses to enter into (Business and Social Manners and Etiquette).
Students evaluate whether her current mode of existence would be prudent for the life advancing avenues she is interested in pursuing.
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MONTHLY AREA OF CONCERN INTRODUCED |
PRACTICAL LIFE APPLICATION ACTIVITY |
PERSONAL BOUNDARY EXPANSION AACTIVITY |
COMMUNITY SERVICE EVENT |
| April – How Is Your Self Talk? (Positive vs. Negative Conversation) |
Psychologists & Social Workers |
Female Executives & College Students Real Talk/Real Issues |
Peer on Peer Mentoring Girl, Let Me Tell You… |
| May – What Does Your External View Say About You? (Critical Thinking Skills) |
Female Corporate, Business, & Liberal Arts Executive Corporate Environment |
Female Networking & Rap Sessions |
Peer on Peer Mentoring Friends?!?! Corporate Environemnt |
| June – Manners & Etiquette (Thank You Notes, Cell Phones, Emails) | Corporate Recruiters
Local Restaurant |
Peer on Peer Mentoring Younger Female Students Reading/Dialogue |
Peer on Peer Mentoring Power in a Book! Local Bookstore |
4th Quarter
- 4th Quarter Programs: Capital Investments Reading List, What’s On Your Mind for Your Future…, Social, History and Precollege Exploratory Trip
- Students have heard that reading is fundamental since their formal entrance into public school. In an effort to solidify all lessons taught, and broaden for the students, the connectivity of society at large, books are introduced to further facilitate all instruction provided in alignment with each of Dr. Pierre Bourdieu’s Sociological Capitals (Capital Investments Reading List). As students have comprehensively been introduced to and connected every program to every other program, she will be more than sufficiently prepared to make some determinations about what she intends to do to assure that the words she speaks are in alignment with the actions she displays (What’s On Your Mind for Your Future?). This prepares each student academically, socially, and psycho-socially for the (Social, History, Precollege Life Exploratory Trip), as well as what she needs to be prepared for to continue to excel in her education, which dictates the possibilities available for her future.
Students end the year feeling empowered, with a plan for success to begin the next year’s education. She will have also provided herself permission for personal expansion of who she is and whom she has the right to become!
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MONTHLY AREA OF CONCERN INTRODUCED |
PRACTICAL LIFE APPLICATION ACTIVITY |
PERSONAL BOUNDARY EXPANSION AACTIVITY |
COMMUNITY SERVICE EVENT |
| July – Capital Investment Reading Lists (Books Enhancing Knowledge of Dr. Bourdieu’s Capitals) |
Environmentally Friendly Sustainability & Career Leaders Corporate Environment |
Social/History Trip & College Campus Tour SUMMER 2012 – State University |
Peer on Peer Mentoring Collective Conversation After College Tour |
| August – What’s On Your Mind for Your Future? (Decisions for the Future) |
College Students
To Be Determined |
Female Executives & Female College Students Woman to Woman |
Peer on Peer Mentoring Girl, You’re the Prize! |
- Introduction of all programs in this manner creates a time model more agreeable to students than the perception currently garnished through an annual focus, and the idea of too much time to be bothered.
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