We are so excited to continue our fabulous year at Southwest High School! 

We love SOUTHWEST! We have been a part of the Southwest High community since 2000, and we are still as passionate as ever about inspiring students to imagine the possibilities of their lives, and then to take action towards making those possibilities a reality.

Naheeda is excited to be in her third year at Southwest, she’s working with the 10th and 11th graders and also the Autism, Lifeskills and DHH programs. She is looking forward to a great year of workshops and to working with and being around her students... they’re amazing and inspiring!!!

“The students continue to amaze me, they really do! The juniors started out the school year with the value auction workshop and challenged me to improve my auction voice!  We also did a collage workshop, and got to visualize goals and see what they’d like their futures to look like 10 years from now....and 27 is not old. Southwest juniors have been representing at college tours and theatre shows, I hope they continue to take advantage of good opportunities. I had so much fun doing the survivor workshop with the sophomores and we also got work done, the students thought about why they value what they value. In the odd jobs workshop we learned about dog food taste testers (yes they exist), the voice of Elmo, the clock master and we continued to think about what they want for their futures and what they’re passionate about. The Lifeskills program had a field trip to St. Kate’s, where they saw TU Dance, thanks for an amazing fieldtrip! What do you have to look forward to?  Yes, there will be a Lego workshop and be ready for a thrilling workshop when we look at Macbeth (please email me with any questions or suggestions)."

Jeffry Lusiak is returning to the classrooms and hallways of fabulous Southwest High School for his fifth year. Facilitating the workshops with the 12th graders and the ELL and Lifeskills program this year, Jeffry can’t wait to help them all move a few steps closer to graduation and achieving their dreams.

Jason Brown is back for his 10th year at Southwest.  Jason is looking forward to continuing his work with the fabulous students of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing program.

Working with the Southwest freshmen has been an incredible experience. To sum up this group of fabulous individuals, the class of 2013 can be described as "Sharp, confident, goal-oriented, dynamic and fun." Their talents are broad ranging: students are focused and productive and also creative and comical. So far this year we've had a great time with students sharing and performing for each other often to express their values, their unique sets of skills and talents, and their goals for the future. With our "Suitcase Workshop" many students shared their poetic inventories of the personal assets they carry with them into each day. In our "Alter Ego" workshop, we discussed expectations and the importance of staying true to one's own expectations. Students have also taken advantage of free theater tickets and they are kicking off 2010 with a great response to our invitation to see Macbeth at the Guthrie. 

Macbeth at the Guthrie - Macbeth, Shakespeare's shortest and darkest tragedy, moves with the rapid pace of the murder thriller it is, exposing the politics of power and corruption it breeds. Multiple dates starting in January. Click here for more info about Macbeth.

Pilobolus at Northrop - Multi award winning Pilobolus, named after a fungus is a rule breaking imaginative and creative exploration of dance.  February 13th

From Paper Airplanes to Legos to Value Auction to Yoga, we are committed to helping students take the ordinary and make it extraordinary. We are all excited about our students making this year an extraordinary one.

We look forward to being with you all as you continue your journey here at Southwest!

If you have any questions, or you just want to say hi, feel free to contact us at naheedah@projectsuccess.org, jeffryl@projectsuccess.org, harleighg@projectsuccess.org, and jasonb@projectsuccess.org.

Project SUCCESS is proud to be serving Southwest High since 2000 at the request of the school. The program began with a focus on the 9th grade classrooms. Today, we serve grades 9-12. 

Project SUCCESS offers the following programming at South High:

• in-class, goal-setting workshops;
• opportunities for each student and their family to attend between six and twelve free theater performances at 27 area theaters;
• weekly after-school workshops;
• all school field trips; and
• state and national college tours.

Southwest High School is a dynamic, academically challenging school of just under 1700 students, grades 9-12. Newsweek Magazine identified Southwest as "One of America's Best High Schools" based on the percentage of students taking advanced placement and International Baccalaureate exams.