Pros
Urban future has a great model for helping inner city students and under my leadership I could see the students grow and I saw an eagerness to come to school every day, mostly to be in urban future after school. Management wants everything to be earned by the students since that is how it will be when they start at work and compete for jobs, so we were asked to emphasize hard work and think of incentives so the students could claim little wins! I was surprised, it did work. I could see them feeling better about themselves and want to keep going. Students Love Urban future!
Cons
They wanted me to really get to know the parents and run everything through them we were doing. A couple of problems with this. I wasn't trained to work with parents. It is hard to work with them when I'm not a parent myself. Also parents are so different from each other and their circumstances are individualized. It was too hard to know what to do in different situations that come up. Believe me I wanted to, but I didn't want to call management every other day.