Redondo Union High School class teaches essential life skills
Students in the SeaHawk Lunchbox program stand together for a photo on Feb.1 before delivering sandwiches. Photo . Standing (left to right) Michael Nguyen, Sean Lynch, Evynn Lourim, Maliyah Fisher, Connie Atkins, Raymond Gelsey, Jacob De le Torre Jodi Rhodes’ class is, as she describes it, the happiest classroom at Redondo Union High School. “There is always learning, laughing and plenty of smiles to go around,” Rhodes said. Rhodes teaches the Essential Skills class, a program at RUHS for no-diploma bound students that centers on functional academics and focuses on the teaching of English and math in both the classroom and the community. Rhodes, a South Bay native and 19-year RUHS teacher, loves her job and loves teaching her students how to function at the school and within the community. Her classroom activities came from a community based instructing program she piloted early on in her career as a teacher at San Pedro High School in 1987. Since coming to Redondo, her classroom at RUHS has been designed as a transitional program to integrate a real-world curriculum into the classroom so her students are better able to function responsibly after they leave school, learning…
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