Leadership. Culture. Learner Empowerment.

Our school has invested in a pedagogy of creativity, student ownership, and innovation. We strive to make learning personal while cultivating curiosity and a tenacity for learning in students. The taxonomy pictured above represents a summary of my experiences and thinking around “making.” It is a continuum designed to elicit reflection and support the push towards increased student ownership. One of the strategies we’ve used to increase student ownership is a fleet of Mobile

Sharing the books we love alongside the people we care about is a powerful practice. Join us in an interactive summer reading experience! Record a short video booktalk and share it to #FamilyBookTalk. After you've posted your short booktalk video you can tag a friend, extended family member, colleague, or author to share their favorite book & family with others! Feel free to connect with any of the educators in the podcast if you have questions. This is a collaborative effort

I’ll acknowledge the “elephant on the screen” by confirming there’s a large hexagon pictured above. We’ll get to that in a second, but first I want to reflect on a concept I’m learning about called rapid prototyping. I recently attended an impactful parenting seminar on creativity. During the seminar, Dave Zukor provided attendees a handout that contained a couple dozen plain circles. He gave attendees a minute to invent as many new ways to alter or enhance the circles as pos