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Instructors need to be flexible to teens emotional needs when they arise.

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how to keep students engaged especially when they refuse to do their projects.

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Include other types of arts into my culinary program. Relate cooking to other songs, movies, theater!

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remind students that this is a job, probably the best job they will have in their young lives.

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Leadership in projects is absolutely a number one way shared by the whole group!

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Allow teens to join meetings with teachers where decisions are made about the program. Ask them what they want to do and talk them through why it is or isn't a possibility so they understand the process.

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giving teens opportunity to say what they want to learn in your class

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First week is really focused on getting to know each other, create music playlists, zoom socials with breakout room topics. The program is business and business is about relationship building.

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Teens may be high energy all day at school, trying hard to be accepted. then come in your program if they feel comfortable and then release whatever emotional feeling they may have that day pent up may show up in your program.

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Finding the balance between autonomy and structure

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Girl Talk Tuesday - teens come up with topics and talk about what is going on in their lives, the news, in their schools, things that are unfair

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Bring in Adler the first couple weeks so teens know there are resources available to them.

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Give them the chance to work on their own projects, and the chance to work on a group project

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Teen led projects

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Build a sense of belonging - working in small groups of three and get used to working with the other teens in their smaller group so its not so overwhelming - more they share out the more comfortable they get. Teens have opportunities to lead in these groups. Teens want to hear it from peers not just the instructors. Ability to give them an assignment and follow through and be praised by other students and weigh in on the activity. Each teen shares how they feel then other share how they feel about it to build constructive feedback and recognition

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Teach them time management, and help them set goals

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set parameters to help them make choices, for example, they should be able to show their work to their parents, or the music playing must be clean

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Really share that we are a community - we help each other, we support each other, identify elements of our individual cultures and use these elements in our designs - first they define what culture is. Our goal it to produce something that impacts our community through culture and art

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Teens select their own recipes, engaging their family to see how they liked the recipe, group builds community by sharing out their experiences and inform changes and edits to recipe

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Teens lead the group share outs

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We have each teen an opportunity to lead

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Checking in with them. Ask if they are okay? How you can help/support them.