School Wellness Week - March 14 - 18

The week of March 14 is School Wellness week. Both DLCs are planning activities that will emphasize the importance of physical and mental health. DLC - New Providence will focus on self care lessons in the classrooms and health activities during adaptive physical education classes. DLC - Warren students will participate in activities that focus on nutrition and wellness in the classroom, during adaptive physical education classes and integrated therapy sessions. Students will be participating in activities such as assembling a skeleton to learn about the body, completing nutrition puzzles, and reading about healthy and unhealthy eating habits. 

March Pancake Breakfasts

DLC - Warren continues to host our weekly Pancake Breakfasts for each of our school’s classes throughout the month of March.  We look forward to having parents from Secondary 17 (March 3), Transition Prep (March 10), Eagle 1 (March 17), Eagle 2 (March 24), and Eagle 3 (March 31) enjoying breakfast with their child.  Please don’t forget to RSVP with your classroom teacher if you can attend and bring your appetite!

Dates Available for Person-Centered Planning Meetings

Are you interested in having a Person-Centered Plan developed for your DLC - Warren student?  There are opportunities available!  Please contact Kim Spurlock, vocational education teacher, at kspurlock@mujc.org today to learn more about the commitment needed to make a successful person-centered plan and to schedule a date for the meeting.

Technology Tips

Safeguarding your identity online should not be as hard as it is, but it’s easy to get lazy when coming up with passwords for all the different websites that we encounter — at least the ones that require us to open an account. In an age where it’s no longer safe to establish accounts through our social media profiles, the odds of password reuse will only go up.

This is a mistake.

Tech-savvy individuals have built programs that can crack a simple password in a matter of minutes. If you use the same password for all your accounts and you bank online or pay any kind of bill online, that can leave your data incredibly vulnerable for misuse.

To safeguard your identity and maintain control over all your accounts, you should use complex passwords for every site where opening an account is a prerequisite. Additionally, you should use something called two-factor authentication so that any access to an account requires another form of verification through a device that you keep on your person.

With two-factor authentication, it becomes much more difficult for hackers and identity thieves to do their thing, and most won’t even bother because they realize there are easier targets more worthy of the time expenditure.

Additional tips to safeguard your identity:

• Don’t let people look over your shoulder when entering a PIN number at the point-of-sale in a brick-and-mortar store.
• Never click a link sent to you through an email.
• Never open a file if you’re not sure where the source comes from.
• Limit access others have to your computers and devices.
• Shred all documents that have an account number or social security number.

Transition Talk

In last month’s edition of the Superintendent Spotlight, the MUJC Transition Team highlighted the importance of teaching our students to become greater self-advocates so they may become more integrated and productive members of their communities.  To successfully teach our students this critical skill, it takes members of our school community to lead by example.  Ramon Colon, MUJC’s Transition Coordinator, has been one of the greatest advocates of our DLC students over his 20 years with the MUJC.  Mr. Colon has continually advocated for our students by reaching out to local community organizations or businesses to establish a variety of community-based volunteer opportunities and work-based learning programs and/or activities.  Following his belief that “everyone knows at least one person who can help,” Mr. Colon was able to connect students at the DLC - Warren with an in-school, volunteer opportunity that results in our students assembling gift bags for returning and new employees of the retail chain, Bed, Bath and Beyond. Mr. Colon’s creativity in developing new opportunities for our students has now opened the door to future projects and or programs.  Thank you, Ray, for your continued support of and advocacy for the students of the DLCs!