A couple of weeks ago, Blair Milo, Secretary of Career Connections and Talent for Indiana talked to a room full of groups from Spencer and Perry Counties about being prepared for the future and the importance of this in our economy. She showed a YouTube video called "The Future of Work: Will our Students Be Ready?" It totally reminded me of the Jetson's because of its futuristic views; McDonalds ran by robots, Amazon stores, robotic dogs, etc. (If you haven't watched this video, I would highly recommend it!)
Conversations like this always lead me down the road of how we can embrace innovation in our schools. I feel fortunate to work at Perry Central, because we are more innovative than most. Mary and Tara are always looking for ways to help our school define learning beyond ISTEP scores, including classes like STEAM, Commodore Manufacturing, PLTW to name a few. Our internship, career pathway and Early College opportunities are massive and allow students to combine and celebrate learning in both rigorous academic and vocational/authentic worlds. Our classrooms are embracing activities such as socratic seminars, turn and talks, debates, etc. which are all great learning techniques! But after watching videos that predict where our world will be in the near future and knowing the need for 21st Century Skills of collaboration, problem solving, critical thinking, authenticity; it makes me wonder what the future will hold!
I never thought that we would be living the lives of the Jetson's back in the 1980's, but we really are. This world is changing at a rapid pace. The question in my mind is, how do we make sure our students and children are ready?
(If you would like to dig a little deeper, below is a link to a website and one specific video clip that you may be interested in. I would love to do a study with anyone that is interested in continuing to transform our school!)
Website: https://teddintersmith.com/innovation-playlist/
Video: https://teddintersmith.com/innovation-playlist/school-within-a-school/
Important Information:
* News 44 LIVE! News 44 will be at Perry Central at 7:00 a.m. this Friday, September 14th. Students and teachers will be playing games, making a large pyramid of cans with their food drive and celebrating "What is cool about school!" We would love to see all of you there. Also, we are working on a corporation wide teacher dance! Becky Hubert has put the dance together and Mackenzie Petty is ready to teach us. If you would be willing to learn the dance, we will meet in the high school library after school at 3:00 for some practice on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday! I hope all of you will come and enjoy the fun!!
* Laurie Desautels Sunday Strategy: Laurie has a Sunday Strategy about how to align bell work with brain strategies. Here is her video clip. You can also follow her on Facebook. She has a strategy every Sunday. This is a great way to help all of us learn how to keep our brains calm! https://www.facebook.com/lori.l.desautels/videos/10161138546680160/
* PLC Meetings: Teachers, please check your emails in regards to scheduled PLC meetings with Jody and Phil. I sent some possible dates and a rough agenda! :-) During our meetings, we will talk about SLOs and answer any questions you may have. SLOs will be due on Friday, October 5th. Please designate one person from your team to respond to the email. We are looking forward learning and finding ways to support you!
* EWIN Visit - On Monday, September 17th, over 20 educators from across the state will be visiting Perry Central to view our Earn and Learn opportunities. Their visit will be from approximately 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. More information will be coming soon.
* ALICE Student Training: On Tuesday, September 18th, Derrick Lawalin and Alan Malone will be at Perry Central to train students in grades 5-12 about the ALICE program. This is a similar training that all of our faculty and staff went through last year (except we will not be doing the simulation in classrooms.) We are excited to offer this to all of our students, as we know this training is not only important in our schools, but in all public venues. We are also grateful for the TCPD and County Sheriff Department for giving us so much time. Here is a tentative schedule for the day: 8:00-9:00 Grades 10-12/ 9:10 - 10:10 Grades 5-6/ 10:20 - 11:20 Grades 7-9. More information will follow closer to time!
* Parent Teacher Conferences: Reminder that Parent Teacher Conferences will be Thursday, September 20th from 1:00 - 7:00 p.m. I know that several of you have your own ways to reach parents/guardians. We would like each of you, at a minimum, to reach out to 10 families individually. I would like to challenge you to choose students that you feel would benefit from the extra layer of support. If any of you would like to have some examples of what communication could look like or would like to learn how to use the email option in Skyward, please let me know.
Important Dates:
Monday, September 10: News 44 Committee Meeting 11:25 in Dana's room
Tuesday, September 11: Varsity Volleyball @ Paoli 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 12
Thursday, September 13: Varsity Volleyball @ West Washington 5:30 p.m.
Friday, September 14: Varsity Football @ Home vs. Tecumseh @ 7:00 p.m./ Science PLC Meeting
Saturday, September 15: Varsity Volleyball @ Christian Academy 9:30 a.m.
Monday, September 17: EWIN Visit
Tuesday, September 18: Student ALICE training
SLOs Due: October 5th
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