Grizzlies Prep

🚨CALLING ALL GP ALUMNI!!!!🚨

Join us at Streets Ministries (Vance location) Friday, May 13th for High School Commitment Day! Help us welcome the GP c/o 2022 to your high school! See you there!

RSVP LINK IN BIO!

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Nacho average middle school!

Last week, it was our honor to celebrate our boys with a nacho party! We firmly believe in regularly rewarding our young men as they crush their academic and social/emotional goals. Competitions are our favorite, and here’s a few reasons why:

1. Improves teamwork and collaboration
2. Enhances social and emotional learning
3. Increases intrinsic motivation
4. Strengthens academic self-concept
5. Facilitates a growth mindset

The young men at Grizzlies Prep would like to congratulate Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson & @chef_tamonthegram for their remarkable accomplishments! We see you. We celebrate you. We honor you. #WeAreGP #BoysBecomingMen

GP, come out this evening to hear about our progressive path forward from Mr. Ware! See you soon!

A Look Into The First African American History Class for Middle Schoolers and the Teacher Behind it - Choose901

Thanks to Choose901 for the incredible article on Grizzlies Prep's own, Cartavius Black. Click to read more on Mr. Black's response to the question: "What kind of impact did Black male educators have on me?"

BLACK MALE EDUCATORS MAKE UP 2% OF AMERICA'S TEACHERS.
Influenced by that staggering statistic, he decided to two years later to make the shift to education and applied for the program.

https://choose901.com/first-african-american-history-class/

A Look Into The First African American History Class for Middle Schoolers and the Teacher Behind it - Choose901 Some tasks we encounter in our lives seem more daunting than others. But, they can become the interceptors that change our lives. This is true for Grizzlies Prep teacher Cartavius Black, whose journey to becoming an educator is noble and interesting. After graduating from the University of Tennessee...

Grizzlies Prep’s student newspaper, Grizz Top Drops, released its 2nd edition today!

This project was authored by the 7th grade Civics class as a part of a media unit. Editing was a combination effort between GP’s Enrichment Coordinator, Mr. Young, and the students. Each article went through many drafts and we could not be more proud of the finished product!

Article titles include: war in Ukraine, winter storm effects, the Memphis Grizzlies, and our very own (Mr. Black) running for Shelby County Commission - Dist. 7!

#CivicsMatters #BoysBecomingMen

Last week, Grizzlies Prep concluded Black History Month with our annual Knowledge Bowl! Our young men answered nearly 40 questions ranging in the following topics:

Entertainment 🎺🎬
Social Justice/ Politics ⚖️👨🏾‍⚖️
Sports 🏀🏅
Black Health & Wellness 🧘🏾‍♂️🏥

8th grade took home this year’s trophy when it came down to the final question: List as many Historically Black Colleges & Universities as you can!

It’s always a joy to see our scholars showcase their brilliance, especially as a team 🤝. Brotherhood & scholarship were on full display and we couldn’t be more proud.

#BoysBecomingMen #WeAreGP #BlackHistoryMonth365

In light of recent updates to COVID-19 CDC guidance, Mr. Ware (Executive Director), continues to work around the clock ensuring the safety of all Grizzlies Prep students & faculty.

Through our partnership with Poplar Healthcare we test, on average, 130 students and staff weekly.

7th grade students in our honors civics class had a special opportunity to learn about the justice system this month. Two groups visited the courtroom of Judge Valerie Smith. She allowed students to observe court proceedings and even showed them around the bench. We're grateful for such an awesome experience! #Civics #WeThePeople #BoysBecomingMen

What's it take? To Collaborate!:

Today, our 7th graders went on a field trip to @bridgesusa where they explored what skills are needed to collaborate on a team such as: communication, critical thinking, social support, and navigating conflict.

This experience was a fun way to help young people grow the skills needed to lead and collaborate with others. At GP, we focus on strategically developing the skills our young men need to be successful both now and later. #boysbecomingmen

Last week, Grizzlies Prep had the amazing opportunity to host our Mother & Son dance. What a joy it was to see our young men honor and celebrate their moms!

#GPBoyMom #BoysBecomingMen

We’re still on for tonight! Stay safe & see you soon! #MotherSonDance2022 #GPBoyMom #BoysBecomingMen

GP took our first whole school field trip in two years! The Memphis Grizzlies Foundation treated our boys to a private viewing of Remember the Titans (shout out to Denzel and Wood Harris). We had a special guest appearance by Memphis Grizzlies player Xavier Tillman, Jr.
#GP #boysbecomingmen #representation #community #brotherhood
@memgrizz
@xavier_tillman23
@grizzcommunity

As SCS Board Appreciation Week comes to a close, Grizzlies Prep salutes @michellemckissack, our District 1 representative!

Grizzlies Prep Core Values Secured Them a SCIAA Boys Basketball Championship

Shout out to the Choose901 team for taking time out to interview our very own Mr. Cathey, GP varsity boys basketball assistant coach, on our winning season.

What do you enjoy most about coaching the boys at Grizzlies Prep?

I enjoy seeing reflections of myself when I was their age, growing and obtaining goals while having fun with their friends. I try my best to motivate, give insight and be a role model to young men. I enjoy giving insight on questions they may have that could impact their future because it’s something I craved when I was younger and letting them know that education is very important.

Click the link below to read the blog in its entirety:

https://choose901.com/grizzlies-prep-core-values-secured-them-the-sciaa-a-boy-basketball-championship/

Grizzlies Prep Core Values Secured Them a SCIAA Boys Basketball Championship Responsibility, integrity, courage, commitment, grit, and excellence are the values held by the boys at Grizzlies Prep Academy—and it was these same values that helped the Grizzlies Prep basketball team win the 2022 SCIAA Boys Basketball Championship! This past week, the boys at Grizzlies Prep sec...

We could not be more proud of our City Champions, who led the way with a record breaking, undefeated 18-0 season! This team exemplifies Grizzlies Prep’s Core Values (Courage, Commitment, Excellence, Grit, Integrity & Responsibility) both on and off the court. As a team they managed to maintain a collective 3.1 GPA, earning more than 25 A’s across the board!

As a school that does not have our own gym, our young men travel to a local youth organization (JIFF) to practice and ground themselves as true scholar athletes. It’s this type of showmanship that we pride ourselves on at GP: scholarship, brotherhood, and hard work.

Congrats, again, to our boys and let’s continue to go hard in the paint! #BoysBecomingMen #ScholarAthletes #CityChampions

Interested in learning more about Grizzlies Prep? Don't forget to join our virtual Information Session at 10am this morning! Click here to join: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81556263803?pwd=SFluaDNCUWQvbEduNldxZ1NZNW9YUT09

Remember this charismatic young man? Check out De’Aree’s (GP c/o 2018) spoken word performance on gun violence at last week’s @blackmencrowned awards, hosted at the National Civil Rights Museum.

GP grads (9th - 12th grade) & alumni (post secondary) continue to carry the torch of our brotherhood’s six Core Values: commitment, courage, excellence, grit, integrity, and responsibility long after they depart.

Our alumni support program is committed to pouring into the lives of our GP scholars through regular school visits, GP programming, and our unique partnership with @choose901alumni.

Stay tuned to see what’s up next!!!

We’re handing out buckets to all GP alumni & grads who comment on this post, and turnovers to those who don’t 😂 Rep your grad year below 👇

Like the Home Team, GP Scholar Ballers have been putting in work both on and off the court 🤫 Check out this past Monday’s score! We see you @memgrizz, and we raise you 5! 🏀 #GoGrizzGo #SaysWho #BoysBecomingMen

The Grizzlies Prep book fair will be held December 1-10! If you would like to volunteer to help run a shift before or after school, please email our librarian, Mrs. Oliver, at [email protected]. Also, for every $10 spent, your student's name goes into a raffle for a $100 book giveaway!

Today, we honor all veterans who have served in the U.S. armed forces. Thank you for your service.

We especially thank our very own, Mrs. Franklin, GP 8th grade ELA & African American Literature teacher. To quote Mrs. Franklin’s favorite author, “the purpose of education… is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions…”. - James Baldwin.

Thank you for the love, light, and commitment you bring to our young men, Mrs. Franklin. Today, we honor you!

One thing about GP… we practice preparedness!

Thank you to our high school partners & parents who joined us this week for Area High School Preview Night! Our families walked away with tons of information, making their decision where to send their son’s to high school significantly more informed and intentional!

#HighSchoolSuccess #GPScholars #BoysBecomingMen

Earlier this week Grizz Prep launched Read Woke — a National movement that challenges participants to read books featuring or written by people in historically marginalized groups.

FACT: In 2018 & 2019, more books featured animals as main characters than people of color.

#ReadOn #GPscholars #Literacy #BoysBecomingMen

Read Woke is a program at Grizzlies Prep that lends itself to a national movement. It is how we educate ourselves to recognize biases and trends in literature and in the books we buy and read.

Swipe to see a graphic with statistics by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center that shows how underrepresented BIPOC (Black, Indigenous + People of Color) communities are in publishing. In 2019, more books featured animals as main characters than people of color.

This is a problem.

Being mindful of what we read and consume is one step of the solution.

#GPScholars #LiteracyBasedSchool #ReadWoke #BoysBecomingMen

In honor of tonight’s season opener, @grizzliesprep scholar athletes would like to send lots of luck to the home team @memgrizz! #GoGrizzGo

Applications for 2022-2023 school year are now live! Apply today to begin your son's joyful & structured school journey: https://www.grizzliesprep.org/enroll

#BoysBecomingMen

Mentoring, at its core, guarantees young people that there is someone who cares about them, assures them they are not alone in dealing with day-to-day challenges, and makes them feel like they matter. - Mentor National

Ware Wednesday’s are one of several ways GP strives to build meaningful relationships with our young men.

#MentoringMatters #GPScholars #BoysBecomingMen

The light in your eyes when you & your GP brothers have read:

📚an average of 4.8 books per student
🏫1,159 books read school-wide
📖a total of 14,550,449 words read

…just in Quarter 1!

Did you know that Grizzlies Prep is a literacy-based school? Under literacy-based instruction students are exposed to literature in all core content subjects: English Language Arts (ELA), math, science, and social studies. Students learn how to analyze texts to help them develop literacy skills through real-life literary experiences.

#Excellence #Commitment #Literacy #GPScholars

Off to a great start, GP!

Grizzlies Prep sends a huge shout out to our SCS School Board rep, Michelle McKissack, for being named the new Board Chair. We look forward to continued support from her. We are thankful for her leadership! #District1 #GP #BetterTogether

Scavenger hunts hit different when #DowntownMemphis is your playground! #BoysBecomingMen