Today was the first day we began presenting Overcoming Obstacles in the classroom. We were lucky enough to receive this program in our school free of charge from the NYC Gifting Initiative! Overcoming Obstacles is a life skills program that teaches students over 20 important life skills that all young people need, starting with a strong foundation of the most critical skills: communication, decision making, and goal setting.
With the help of our wonderful History department, Mr. Jeff Thomas and I did an introductory lesson with some of the freshmen and sophomore classes today and it went great! The students responded really well to the topics we were talking about and presenting and we're really looking forward to going further in this program with them.
You can find out more about Overcoming Obstacles at www.overcomingobstacles.org.
-Ms. Miller
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