some short and sweet weekly highlights for you...It's really feeling like spring, finally, and a few students are starting to see new growth in their project work. This time of year sometimes starts to slow down a bit, but this year we're really getting going in some areas. Our highlights of this week include, but are not limited to: Mentor Appreciation Night! It was great to see all the students from our personalized learning programs gather at this event to give thanks and praise to our mentors. Projects take off a lot when students get to work with a mentor in the community. Mentors are an essential part of our success. Thanks and thanks again to our mentors all those committed to showing up for their mentor and being grateful. Iona Bristol taught her first of three lessons at Rumney Elementary to a class of first graders. She wants them to know more about climate change and what we can do to combat it. Her mission is to get them started early so that they can make small steps throughout their lives to solve the climate crisis. Iona also spent many hours with scissors in the past week making them all tote bags out of donated used t-shirts. They got to decorate them and take them home. I hope to see them at the farmer's market carrying their veggies home soon! We learned a lot from the first graders, too. I learned a great deal about angler fish and deep sea exploration. Who knew there are 200 different species of anglerfish!? Turns out Owen and I have a shared love for documentaries that show us what we cannot see at the bottom of the ocean. It was great to see that they are doing some independent research in their class... future Pilot students!! Iona will visit with a 3rd/4th grade class and a 6th grade class before the end of May. She's doing great work! I love seeing out older students connect with the younger ones in our district. I often feel that there is too big a divide between elementary and middle/high school. I would love to bridge the gap. Cultural Diversity Day at U-32! It's still happening! There are events tonight starting at 5:30 pm. Gräe did another version of their Microaggressions workshop. Ana Young, Dane Liebermann, and Madison Roberge are all home! Welcome back!! They got a chance to present about their experiences studying abroad in Morocco and India. Great traditional dress worn by all of them. The dance moves were also beautiful. Neveah West found a writing mentor! She will be working with Josie Colt a former U-32 grad who had both Chris and I as teachers about 8 years ago. Questions from Seminar: The questions I asked in the Thursday Seminar this week were 100% inspired by the first graders. I was very excited about their enthusiasm and their honesty. Consider these: What do you want to know more about? What is peaking your curiosity? I am attempting to have you consider that there are things you don't know. Sometimes teenagers present an attitude of knowing it all. I want us to consider the ways that not-knowing might benefit the way we inquire about our projects. What could you be more honest about, to yourself, or others? These are life lessons... you see? Up next!On Monday, the Pilot Art students will head to the Hall Art Foundation in Reading, Vermont. Remember to bring your own lunch!
And it's hard to believe but... exhibitions start in just over two weeks. The schedule will be coming out very soon. Until then, amyK
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