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Table 1 Notes
- Inclusivity (student involvement)
- Patriot Academy
- Gender, sexuality, race
- Art directors
- Someone to bring interest to them
- Diversity (Project Adventure)
- Awareness (mental health, environment, microaggressions)
- Situational awareness
- Problem solving (social problems)
- Respect (towards students, peers, staff)
- School safety
- Bathrooms
- Students need to respect
- Culture – freedom and integrity
- Adding classes that students need (business classes, personal finance, internships, hands-on courses)
- Classes beyond B-P’s walls
- More language options
- Fix vaping and bullying (more speakers)
- Patriot Academy (expansion, students struggle with sitting in classes, students are losing interest and ability to interact)
- Better instruction in phys ed (diverse activities)
- Positive peer pressure
- CHAIN REACTION
- Get people students know to give speeches
- Real consequences!
- Different around different people
- Don’t think about long-term outcome
Table 2 Notes
- Increased focus on mental health and addiction awareness
- Communication and diversity – a better awareness for cultural understanding
- More STEM – more women in STEM
- Problem solving
- Critical thinking
- Career prep
- Career awareness
- Diversity – bullying, civility, mental health
- Addressing the learning gap
- Addressing some of the gaps for social aspects as trauma
- Diversity and inclusivity – awareness of the background of people – expanding the bubble
- Education isn’t just academic – building soft skills
- Lifelong learning
- Inclusivity for students with disabilities
- Eliminating stigmas
- Learning loss for special education students
- Soft skills and coping skills
- Resilience
- Talking to students about what they would encounter
- Culture on courageous conversations and embedding that throughout the day
- Education of the community on acceptance and awareness
- Inclusivity on the socioeconomic differences, societal, ability level
- Where are we going with the kids – how about the infrastructure?
- Creating atmosphere through building up
- Coming to school – hasn’t changed a significant amount
- Completing the brand
- Keeping students engaged through senior year
- Class accessibility
- Different elective classes
- Focusing on those core skills (communication)
- Fear of getting out of your comfort zone for students
- As an education system – how can we help our students learn from failure?
- Community involvement on the applicable skills
Table 3 Notes
- Internet skills
- Diversity – equipping all with dealing with diversity to be able to cope outside the B-P bubble
- Inclusivity – reducing the clique community stigma
- Life skills – working with other people
- Mental health – education to get the tools to cope with issues, not just adding providers
- Critical thinking – collaboration – building teams, communication (public speaking, etiquette)
- Internet skills – make good digital citizens, coping skills – ability to explore
technical trades – vocational skills - Giving students ability to demonstrate learning in other ways from testing
- Don’t restrict the students to just the walls of B-P – collaborate with other schools
- Find ways to connect students in different ways – break them out of their comfort zone
Table 4 Notes
- Need for social-emotional support (SEL), especially after last few years
- Seminar in College – how to be “a human”
- Who are you?
- Character Strong is great, but need more
- More support staff (counselors)
- Always putting out fires
- Academics
- National standards
- We’re behind considering AP levels/scores
- National standards
- RIGOR
- Grit for kids and parents
- Understanding of kids and if they’re challenged
- Grit for kids and parents
- Overcoming adversity, keep going
- Support as teaching – “Yeah, you’re wrong…” “That’s OK, now you keep going.”
- Time – crunch between SEL and academics
- Some kids don’t want to do some things
- Work outside
- Challenge more in classroom to build skills
- Involvement and being busy provides challenge and limits SEL needs
- PURPOSE for each kid
- How do we steer them towards this?
- “Go-to” person
- College-style campus
- Foundation – lecture hall (i.e. “101”)
- More opportunities for electives to find and explore interests/passions
- Distance/online learning
- Or other ways to bring them here
- Kids can find almost anything they want to learn
- Independent study
- This could help attendance strugglers, too
- Expose younger students to more options/interests
- Interests = widen horizons
- “Minimize culture shock”
- Increase rigor
- Where do we go from here?
- Succeed outside these walls
- More math – need in careers
- Logic and critical thinking
- Need knowledge
- How to pay bills/taxes
- Avoid problems
- Adulting
- Women in STEM and leadership
- Community partnerships with businesses (i.e. Chamber of Commerce)
- Certificate of employability
- PLTW – STEM/computer science/work in community
- Real-world experience
- How to communicate/be professional
- Resume, etiquette, how to leave a job
- How not to burn bridges
- How to build your network
- It’s OK to be wrong, be told no, and then persevere
- Service – to our community/school
- We don’t require it currently
- Colleges look for it and extracurriculars
- Some kids see it as a hassle
- Can we build a culture for it?
- Opens your eyes
- Kids don’t know where to go/find service
- Ties to SEL
- Learn how to ask for things/help
- Practice job interview skills
- Acceptance, open to wider world
- Value others’ opinions
- Literacy, vocabulary, grammar
- Impacts on how it affects you
- Public speaking
- Verifying/understanding information you find
- Diversity, equity, inclusion
- All types: race, disability, gender, orientation
- Provide opportunities for equity where needed
- How do you treat people who are different than you?
- Especially when they’re not reflected in the community
- Sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know
- Break the school wall
- Distance learning
- More languages? Distance learning in another country
- Brings in culture, which can lead to jobs
- We do offer Mandarin
- How do you think outside the box?
- So used to tech/having answers at their fingertips
- How can you be independent?
- How can you be confident?
- Learn from failure, want it to be “liked”
- Learn from what you’re doing, across all grades
- GRIT, value the process
- Need to learn to stand up for oneself
- Need to learn to respectfully debate
- Bring back rigor and expectations
- How do you create paths?
- Need for structure
- Technology allows for repetition
- Keep trying
- Can be anonymous
- Gain knowledge
- Customize education
- Kids want to be right the first time
- There’s insufficient reward for getting it right the second time
- Ties to self-worth and impacts SEL
- Set high/rigorous expectations
- Repetition of structure helps SEL and rigor
- How do we combat the impact of social/media/technology influence has had on our kids over past two years?
- Academics and social/emotional needs to be equal
- Mindset for growth
- Socialization gap
- Develop self-confidence
- Non-conformity is good
- How to be YOU
- The arts
- Our world doesn’t revolve around “core 4”
- Cross-disciplinary focus and collaboration
- i.e. Art and anatomy
- Creates citizens away from us
- How do you express yourself?
- How can you be vulnerable?
- Be a place that builds connections and trust
- Writing/verbalize
- Intentional, but innovative, motivated by interests
- Collaboration creates ways for all kids to “shine” in their own way
Table 5 Notes
- Five Year Focus
- Expansion of current Patriot Academy – personalized instruction for students
- Expand to upper elementary
- Different learning modalities
- More internship opportunities
- More math
- Intervention
- More targeted
- More electives
- More reading
- More job and career readiness exposure
- Diverse opportunities
- Sports
- Clubs
- Academics
- Expand classroom beyond the “walls” of B-P
- Collaborate with classrooms in different states/countries
- Increased trade opportunities
- Fluidity of opportunities (joining) – different grades
- Emotional and physical health and wellness
- Coping skills
- Service
- Stronger literacy programs
- Stronger foundational skills
- Increase intervention services
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
- Stronger foundational skills
- Authentic/purposeful assessments
- Apply knowledge
- Digital citizenship
- Appropriate online behavior
- More opportunities for seniors to keep them in school once their required classes are done for the day – maximize their time in the district
- More research opportunities
- Safe space to try something new – make the most of the time to discover who you are
- More technology skills
- Google Suites
- Google Sheets
- Typing
- Individual Education Plan for all students
- Understanding the students and why they are struggling
- Academically
- Socially and emotionally
Table 6 Notes
- Mental Health
- Accessibility/comfort
- Letting parents know what resources we have
- Student coping skills–helping support their peers
- Sensory rooms in elementary schools
- Crisis TA
- Technology
- Gadgets and know-how
- Tech literacy – etiquette
- Keyboarding!
- Parent tech literacy
- Negativity
- Impossible for parents to monitor everything all the time
- Life Skills
- Face-to-face communication
- Appropriateness
- SEL Skills
- Accountability
- Core skills
- Communication
- Creativity
- Collaboration
- Critical thinking
- Job skills
- Risk Taking
- Academic Standards
- Student Expectations
- Character Strong – is it worthwhile?
- Re-focusing on big-picture ideas and not stress the ¨little” things
- Clear repackaging/rebranding sequences
- What to expect as a parent as a student travels from elementary to high school
- Parent University
- Greater student involvement
- Respect between students
- Nobody dressed up at spirit week!
- Athletics
- Extracurriculars
- School Safety
- Be vigilant but be reassuring
Table 7 Notes
- Labor market; what jobs are out there?
- Authentic assessments
- Technology – 150 million
- Skills-based instruction/curriculum
- New/innovative ways to engage students
- SEL – self regulation; leading to professionalism
- Time management
- Character education
- Digital citizenship
- Connections – community networking
- Alumni relations – work-based learning outcomes
- Solid foundational skills
- Improve infrastructure
- Teacher retention/recruitment
- Soft skills
- Connections to real world (inclusiveness and citizenship)
- Community service
- Extracurricular activities
- Opportunities
- Culture of responsibility
- Etiquette
- Collaboration – key to career success
- Critical thinking/analytical
- Internships
- Communication
- Cultural understanding
- First group had some endpoints – how do we get there?
- Preparing students for future technology
- Evolution – cassette tapes to streaming
- Google it! Technology needs refinement
- Out of the box thinking; fluidity
- Developing discipline of character
- More information being presented about classes
- Communication to parents and students about the description of classes
- Wellness days to get connected with teachers to find out what other courses are being offered
- Time management – self discipline and accountability
- Real world problem based opportunities
- Clubs, intramurals
- Creating connections and a stronger affiliation between home and school
- Emphasis on internships
- Service, volunteering – ways to network
- Academics – gap between HS to college
- Develop wellness days to connect students and staff
Table 8 Notes
- School ranking
- Uunderstand the ranking process (Zillow, the recent test score report)
- Communicating successes through social media
- National scoring
- Objective metrics
- Subjective
- What are our internal values?
- Personalized learning
- Class ranking and standardized tests
- Uunderstand the ranking process (Zillow, the recent test score report)
- Supporting the teachers and staff
- Policies and procedures (Code Yellow)
- Additional aides
- Additional assistance for students with special needs
- Developing curriculum to support the trades
- Paired with business/entrepreneurship
- Work-based learning
- Internships and shadowing opportunities
- Coding /STEM initiatives
- Labor market and jobs
- Evolution of curriculum toward technology
- Better/more computers
- Encourage to take more tech classes
- Literacy and math skills
- Critical thinking
- Communication skills
- Exposure to careers and internships
- Mental health
- More direct phys ed
- Supporting the concept of overall wellness
- Lifetime leisure activities (swim, tennis, golf, running 5ks (vs track events))
- Club option in parallel with sports. Is this intramural? (like an opportunity to train with the track team without the pressure to compete/win)
- Take care of yourself
- Prioritizing sleep
- Create a relaxed atmosphere throughout the school day
- School store and creating a social area/“third space”
- Lifetime leisure activities (swim, tennis, golf, running 5ks (vs track events))
- Inclusiveness
- Bringing more attention to arts rather than sports
- Story: there can be bullying towards students who aren’t in varsity sports
- Example: Varsity jacket not available to students that do band or theater
- Suggestion: Give a letter to activities in addition to sports. Being involved is the goal.
- Example: If drama has reserved a space, the athletic department will require they relocate
- Coach driven collaboration
- Require/encourage athletes to be well-rounded and participate in drama, band
- Make teams attend the concerts and plays.
- Increase team-building activities sponsored by the school
- Foster connection
- Foster the B-P culture – great school – make everyone feel like they’re on the same team
- Adult/community continuing education classes – like guitar