Good morning! Welcome back to the Joust About Careers podcast. Today’s episode features the 10-minute highlights of my interview with Brooke (Conroy) Nissen, the Executive Director of Focus Recovery and Wellness Community. The highlights include what Brooke does as an executive director, the other careers she considered and had before landing where she is now, how she deals with stress, and much more. If these highlights make you want to learn more about Brooke’s career journey, check out the full interview.
To watch full interviews and highlights on YouTube, visit bit.ly/JoustAboutCareers. To listen to full interviews on your favorite podcast platform, simply search "Joust About Careers" to find the podcast and listen to this episode and others.
If you or someone you know is a VB graduate with an interesting career story to share, please reach out at bbratt@vbschools.net so others can learn from those stories to find their own career success. Have a great week!
Love to see our students demonstrating the "Traits of a Black Knight" #BeABlackKnight
Why trust the ingredient label when we can break it down and determine the content of antacids ourselves?! - Mr. Schumaker's Chem 2 class #BeABlackKnight
3rd grade got out today to get some tulips planted for the spring!
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SAVE THE DATE! #BeABlackKnight
Author Dr. Jena Hinds came in to share her book, Little Scientist, with Mrs. Cavera's 1st grade class which also includes her nephew Dominic!
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Congrats to our awesome Positive Behavior Referral Black Knights!
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Don't miss the 33rd annual Apple Butter Festival this weekend in Van Buren! Check out the story in yesterday's Courier for more info: https://thecourier.com/news/410932/van-buren-preps-for-33th-annual-fall-festival/.
5th grade VANTAGE students recently attended their first Hancock Gifted United Meeting. They had a great time with activities like geocaching, rock wall climbing, canoeing, archery, gaga ball and airplane building! #BeABlackKnight
Come out tonight and support our Boys Soccer team and Seniors! Senior Knight festivities start at 4:45 at Tom Swaisgood Memorial Field and the boys will follow after the girls game.
Congratulations to our Knights of the Roundtable for September!
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Kindergarten had a great day at Conine's Pumpkin Patch!
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Come out tonight and support our Girls Soccer Team and Seniors! Senior Knight festivities start at 4:45 at Tom Swaisgood Memorial Field!
Let's welcome the Homecoming festivities with a BANG next Tuesday, October 11th at 7pm! Our Junior and Senior girls will be competing in our annual Powder Puff game. Good luck to both teams!
Attention all Alumni of Van Buren Bands!!
From Band Director Mike Procyk:
Please spread this link to everyone. I have limited reach so please spread the word as best you can.
We are inviting Black Knight marching band alumni to join us for Homecoming on Friday, Oct. 14th.
We will have VERY limited instruments to share, particularly drums and sousaphones. Everyone should see if they can borrow one from another school or their college. I will do my best to get an instrument for everyone but I cannot guarantee it. Please do what you can to get an instrument to bring.
I would like all alumni to register by Tuesday Oct 11. Alumni should plan on being at the school for rehearsal beginning at 5:30 that evening.
https://forms.gle/MCbzenXG87AafzqG9
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Congrats to Mrs. Slone's class for their Positive Behavior Referral from Miss Breitigam for an awesome job with their 1st mileage club day on the track!
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My name is Ellory Schroeder and I am a first-year teacher this year. I am teaching 4th grade Language Arts and Social Studies. I graduated this past May from The Ohio State University (Go Buckeyes!). In my free time, I enjoy hanging out with my friends and family and baking when I get the chance. I am super excited to begin this new adventure as a Black Knight! #TeamTuesday #BeABlackKnight
Congrats to Bentley for winning the $250 Amazon gift card for our STEAM Step-It Up fundraiser!
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The latest episode of the Joust About Careers Podcast features 2007 VB graduate Brooke (Conroy) Nissen, who is now the Executive Director of Focus Recovery and Wellness Community. In the episode, Brooke shares about what she does as an executive director, how her work in criminal justice led her to this point on her career journey, how she deals with stress, and much more. Anyone interested in social work or criminal justice careers will find information related to getting started down those paths in this episode, so feel free to share it.
To watch on YouTube, visit bit.ly/JoustAboutCareers. To listen on Anchor, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or other platforms, simply search "Joust About Careers" to find the podcast and listen to this episode and others.
If you or someone you know is a VB graduate with an interesting career story to share, please reach out at bbratt@vbschools.net so others can learn from those stories to find their own career success. Have a great week!
Career Development Opportunity!
This Thursday, October 6, RPM Carbide Die (http://www.rpmcarbidedie.com/), a precision machining company that has been in Arcadia since 1967, will be holding an open house from 11:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
This would be a great opportunity for juniors and seniors to visit the business, learn more about what the business does, and ask questions about how to move into the tool and die field after graduation.
