A day in the life...

I chose my mentor, Wendy, to be the subject of this week’s blog because she always seems busy and is kind of a liaison for of the different departments. However, this day seemed pretty calm and simply started with a 9:00 AM CFAT (Cross Functional Affairs Team) meeting. Today the meeting was about AmeriCorps requirements and planning how to update the corps member handbook. The meeting only lasted till 10 AM then Wendy answered emails from 10-11 AM. Everyone is ALWAYS on their email. It is their major source of communication. I had never used Outlook till I started this internship and now I’m pretty much a pro. The next hour Wendy researched and summarized information about some Charter school grant proposals for the Executive Director. From 12- 12:30 she was on-call about their federal funding in case there were any questions and then it was lunch time. Like I said this was a pretty casual day but some weeks people are so busy they are in the office till 8 or 9 o’clock. A lot of the staff work from home because so much time is spent researching. I know most of my time had been researching Charter schools, downloading school calendars, and contacting corps members regarding past TFA corps members that still teach at their schools.