HIS staff member Hailey Tiedemann takes a break from work to quiz HIS alum Israel in preparation for his driver's license test. Israel came back to work in our business office while figuring out what he wanted to do. Although he’s completed his academic prerequisites for culinary school, he lacked the resources and guidance to attain a driver’s license needed to travel independently. This is just one of the common missing life fundamentals to be addressed among our students in the MAPS for Life program.
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ictor Cadavid assumes a brand-new position at Holbrook Indian School as the MAPS coordinator. MAPS is an acronym for Mental, Academic/Artistic, Physical, and Spiritual wholeness. The MAPS coordinator will work with the counseling department to develop proactive, systematic, and comprehensive wellness plans for each student. The MAPS concept was formulated by the HIS staff and administrators three years ago to ensure the targeting of every level of education for the successful development of their students. It is designed to prevent students from “falling through the cracks,” as Mr. Cadavid put it. “We teach them a lot of classes and concepts,” he said, “but how can we be 100 percent sure that students are grasping all these concepts practically?” That is where the MAPs coordinator comes in. The MAPS coordinator facilitates three areas of whole-person growth: educational classes, one-on-one coaching, and multi-department collaborative efforts. “First, we use a class setting to teach them a general concept about the pillars that make up the MAPS program,” Mr. Cadavid explained. “We work toward
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helping students understand the Mental, Academic/ Artistic, Physical, and Spiritual concepts in theory.” The second area involves what Mr. Cadavid describes as “basically life coaching.” As Mr. Cadavid meets with each student one-on-one, he helps students create an action plan and guides them in executing that plan. “One-on-one, we target specific problems and help them create and achieve goals,” he said. “We work on creating a path of how to reach those goals while they are here at HIS.” A typical session involves reviewing all of the student’s goals and going over the process to effectively achieve these. Then the student picks one goal to work on for the week. An example of one of their goals might be finding self-motivation for class assignments. Enhancing
