Today’s guests were Omar Reyes, Assistant Director of Admissions at Rhode Island College, Akintola Fayanjoula, an Admissions Officer at the CCRI Providence office, and Paloma Goico, a student at Rhode Island.  Today’s hosts welcoming Omar, Akintola, and Paloma to Hope High were Jose Quintanilla, Darwin Morales, and Khadiatou Njie.  The topic of today’s conversation was […]

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The Management of today’s class was assumed by Hope High student,  Robert Desilets. Robert took the lead and the facilitator role for today’s conversation among the Hope Life Skills students and our guests,  Brown University students Alisa Huban and Meghan Mozea.    Alisa, from Austin, Texas, and Meghan, from a small town in western Massachusetts, shared […]

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Today’s guest was Nan Quinlan, a senior career consultant at Transition Solutions and the former Training and Development Manager at TACO Inc, a multi-million dollar, international company in Cranston, Rhode Island. Today’s host was Arthur Bonga. Today’s conversation focused on best practices for a successful job interview.

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Today’s guest was Omar Reyes, Assistant Director of Admissions at Rhode Island College. Accompanying Mr Reyes were two Rhode Island College students, Olimpia Aldana and Alexa Estrada.   Today’s Life Skills hosts charged with welcoming Mr Reyes, Olimpia and Alexa were Arthur Bonga, Aaron Chy, and Isabella Caraballo to Hope High School and the Life Skills […]

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 Have you heard the expression  – bucket list?   It usually refers to a list of things someone wants to do before the day they “kick the bucket“; “kicking the bucket” is a  euphemism for dying.  Webster’s Dictionary defines this expression as “a list of things a person wants to achieve or experience before reaching a […]

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Today’s guest was Vannessa Ramirez, Hope Life Skills alum, Hope High School 2010 graduate and presently the Community Relations Chairwoman at Millennial Rhode Island and Good Fund Loan Officer.  Today’s Hope Life Skills host was Khadiatou Njie.

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Today’s guest was Jane Bermont, the President of Hope High Dollars for Scholars, an organizations committed to help Hope High School students with college scholarships.  Our host today was Paola Varella.

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Today’s topic of conversation was about the importance and strategy for optimizing talent; in other words, getting the most out of our abilities and opportunities.  To do this, we began by gathering data about each student in a Life Skills survey.  We then analyzed the data we collected from each student. Next, we made a […]

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 If you had to share your perception of the ‘Abby Almonte brand‘ after meeting her for the first time in today’s class, what would it be?  Please describe your perception of Abby’s personal brand in a well written statement with perfect spelling and grammar, short sentences with spot on punctuation (commas, periods) and send it […]

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Today’s class was about “Brand”, perceptions and misconceptions, the development, promotion and protection of great ones, and the confidence great brands instill. We accomplished this with our conversation with Abby Almonte, sophomore at Loyola University Maryland, a 4,068 student Jesuit college in Baltimore, Maryland. We had an opportunity to reflect on many brands today:  Loyola […]

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 Please research Loyola University, located in Baltimore, Maryland, as if you were considering this school to apply to.   Please send me a well written email no later than the end of day Monday, January 7th, 2 facts about the school which impressed you. Thank you. Please identify 1 fact about the school which might discourage […]

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Today’s guest was Marta Aparicio. 2009 Hope Life Skills student.  2010 Hope High valedictorian.  Georgetown University full scholarship award winner and 2014 Georgetown graduate.   Follett Corporation Southeastern United States Director and Adjunct Professor at Miami Dade Community College.  And today, Columbia University Graduate Student in International Affairs with a Charles Rangel Fellowship who will be […]

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“I absolutely wouldn’t be the man I am today without the lessons from Social Studies 2.0.

- SSAYAH,
student ALUM

- SSAYAH, student ALUM

Social Studies 2.0 still remains one of the most valuable courses that I took during my high school days.”

- jquin, student ALUM

- jquin,
student ALUM