Today’s guest was Nan Quinlan. Nan was the Director of Training and Development at a large, international company located in Cranston, RI called TACO, Inc. Nan has been coming to the Hope Life Skills class for over 10 years teaching job interviewing skills and resume writing. Nan is presently a senior career consultant at a […]
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Our guest today was Junior Jabbe, the Executive Manager of Corporate Operations at Banneker Industries, in North Smithfield, Rhode Island. Our Hope Life Skills host today was Delsairey Almonte. Delsairey welcomed Junior to Hope High School before introducing him to the entire Life Skills class. Junior began his story as a troubled middle school student […]
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Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island The Hope Life Skills class traveled east on interstate Route 195 through Seekonk and Rehoboth, Massachusetts to the Bristol, Rhode Island Roger Williams University campus about 23 miles from Providence. The field trip mission was to learn a few things about the college search process, tour a university with […]
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Our Life Skills guest today was Carolina Correa, the Major Gifts Officer and Young Leaders Circle Manager at the United Way of Rhode Island. Our Life Skills host today was Ingris Izaguirre Maradiaga. Carolina began her story from her youth in Medallin, Columbia to her emigration to Pawtucket, Rhode Island at the age of 13 […]
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Today’s Hope Life Skills guest was Jason Roias, Hope High School and Hope Life Skills graduate, presently a student at the Community College of Rhode Island, co-Founder of Hungry Fridays community service program, member of the 2014 ‘Jorge Elorza for Major’ campaign and networker extraordinaire. Our Hope Life Skills host today was Jorge Paz. Jason […]
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Today’s guest was Narine Lemme, a Business Transformation Leader/Master Black Belt at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in Boston, Massachusetts. More succinctly, our guest, Narine Lemme, is a company change agent! Narine’s role in her company is to create a focus on getting better; in other words, continuous improvement. She helps her work colleagues improve the […]
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1. Read the Boston Globe newspaper article I distributed in class today entitled “Graduating soon? You Should be looking for that first job now” by reporter Isvari Mohan. Please tell me if there is any information in this article that you agree with and will use to help you be the successful person you aspire […]
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Today’s guest was Randy Martinez, Director, Strategic Diversity Management/Pharmacy Benefits Management at one of America’s largest companies, CVS Health. Our Hope Life Skills host was Mohamadou Mbaye who welcomed Randy to Hope High School and introduced him to the entire Life Skills class. “I was born into a military family. We moved a lot! […]
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1. One of the indicators of how successful a person will be in their life is how they deal with adversity, failure and/or misfortune. Most people experience some level of hardship or adversity sometime in their life. How a person deals with their misfortune, whether they withdraw and chose to not try as vigorously as […]
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Travis Barbour, Valentina Gomez-Rincon and Juan Corona returned to the Hope Life Skills class today to share their Life Skills class experiences. This year’s class asked Valentina, Travis and Juan about their experiences during last year Life Skills program. “How did you feel when you were chosen for the CVS internship?”…..”Were you nervous attending the […]
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1. Read pages 1 through 31 in the textbook posted on this web site entitled “Questions: The Importance and Value of Questions“. 2. Please share something you read in this text that made you think; it may be something you found interesting or thought provoking. Were there any words you read in the “Questions” […]
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Today’s guest was East Greenwich High School senior, Ali Decesare, and her father, Founder and President of Third Effect Marketing and Design, a leading Rhode Island graphic design and marketing company, Nick Decesare. Today’s Hope Life Skills host was Melanie Gomez Cabrera.
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