Shuffle Round: West Generation Academy Week 1

So on the Southwest (Denver) AmeriCorps campus we do a little thing called shuffle round. We get the chance to have a break (sometimes much needed) from our teams and go to a project that we induvidually have ranked high. The original teams get split up and put on to new ones according to our rankings. Usually people get within their top three rankings. I got my first pick, which was West Generation Academy in Denver.

West Generation Academy is in it's first year of opening. The original West High School is being phased out and replaced with a new learning system, focused on building careers and getting student focused on college and jobs for the future. There is now 6th, 8th, and 9th grade classes at West Gen. Our role there is to assist in the classrooms and to help out wherever we can to make the school run a little more smoothly.

I won't go into details, but after the first week of being there, this has not been an easy task. I can say that when a student succeeds in something you instructed them to do, or so much as expected them to do, the feeling is incredible.