Take Charge Daily Challenge
Calling all students! Join us each week for the Take Charge Daily Challenge. Each week we will release a new playlist for your school week. Take on the daily challenge and develop your Expanded Core skills. Each challenge is a simple task that you can do that will help you take charge of the life you want to live. Feel like you can do a skill? Try it in a new environment or extend your skill by increasing the complexity.
May 6th - May 10th
Take Charge Daily Challenge Playlist
Here's your challenge topics for the week:
Quintin*: What is a screen reader?
Lauren: Learn how to play beep kickball
Alex: Find another way to get to the same place
Madelyn*: Clean out your vacuum
Everett: Call out an inaccessible website
Check out this challenge playlist.
May 13th- May 17th
Take Charge Daily Challenge Playlist
Take Charge Daily Challenge Playlist
Here's your challenge topics for the week:
Dillon*: Research about cane tips
Robbin: Change the garbage bag
Alex: Learn a fun and simple joke
Stacey: Manners for eating
Jay: Interpret body language
Check out this challenge playlist.
Mentors with an * after their name indicates that they have a vision impairment.
Meet the Take Charge Mentors:
Alex Fabrega, a TSVI/OM from Foundation for Blind Children, Phoenix
Tony Naska, a Spanish teacher for our Spanish Take Charge Daily Challenges
Kate Katulak, a TSVI & Associate Director for Disability Services at Harvard University*
Quintin Williams, Assistive Tech lead, Utah School for the Blind*
Bridges Community Readiness Students at the Utah School for the Blind*
Robbin Clark, Expanded Core Services Division administrator
Tyson Field, occupational therapist
Get in on the fun!
Teachers and students are invited to help grow the Take Charge Daily Challenges. If you are a teacher or student and would like to submit a video challenge, email Robbin Clark, robbinc@usdb.org to get in on the fun!
Take Charge Daily Challenge now in Spanish!
We are excited to have Take Charge Daily Challenge playlists in Spanish! Each month we will have a bimonthly playlist with some amazing and doable challenges in Spanish.
We are always looking for more Spanish language speakers to help grow our Spanish content so if you are a teacher, student, paraprofessional, etc., we want you to help record. We are excited to grow the Take Charge Daily Challenge to reach our diverse community members.
Monthly Challenges:
Cómo administrar tu tiempo
Cómo conocer los espacios para eventos
Descubre qué ropa se ve mejor en ti
Cómo conectar dispositivos usando bluetooth
Check out the Spanish Challenges here