Fellow Blog Post – Week 3

June 24, 2024

Hello everyone!

My third week at Bridgeway has been more relaxed but full of planning and coordinating for the week ahead.

I started to brainstorm for our Kiwanis Charity Regatta social campaign. The Kiwanis Charity Regatta is an online fundraiser where people can donate to non-profits through votes. Each vote costs a dollar, and that dollar pushes the organization’s boat closer to their fundraising goal. Bridgeway’s goal this year is $1,000. I aim for our social media campaign to be creative to hopefully meet or even surpass our goal.

I’m also starting to create some video content to highlight the different programs at Bridgeway beyond just our summer activities.

One program at Bridgeway is the Family Partnership program. It integrates typically developing kindergarteners and pre-schoolers to model social and behavioral skills for kids with developmental delays. I’ve set up a meeting with the team to get their insights on what parts of the program we should highlight and I’m excited to hear about their stories to potentially feature in our annual report!

Another program I want to showcase is the Young Men’s Club led by Henry Newberg. This club gives students a space to discuss their personal growth. I’ve reached out to Henry and am thinking of asking every student in the video the same question like, “How has this club helped you gain confidence within yourself?” I want this video to have more of a sentimental quality so that viewers can see the impact that the program has on the students through their own words.

I’m also working on planning a field day for the students in the second week of July. The event will take place at different locations at Bridgeway. Each location will have different activities and classrooms will circle through each of them. Rachel mentioned that the staff at Bridgeway have been wanting to organize a field day for a while but it would be difficult to plan a school-wide field day right away so next month’s field day would be a great chance to test things out before planning something more larger-scale.

Currently, I’m starting to order materials this week and had a scheduling meeting with Rachel to iron out the details. Although I’m nervous about everything coming together smoothly, I’m really excited for the kids to have this experience.

We also wrapped up our third week of summer programming as well! This week was martial arts week. We had instructors from Krinsky’s Taekwondo Academy come in and teach our students the basics of taekwondo. I was able to take some pictures of the lessons which I will put here!