Creativity and Innovation have become a part of the skills we teach, foster, and model with students to help them be successful in high school and as they transition to careers, college, and post secondary training.
Creativity and Innovation are included in all the phases of Project Based Learning through:
- defining the creative challenge,
- identifying sources of information,
- generating and selecting ideas, and
- presenting work to users or a targeted audience.
Most importantly, with creativity and innovation come originality, value of a product, and the demonstration of individual and group style. These skill and what students demonstrate through the final "product" wrap around the 21st century skills which post-secondary institutions and employers are seeing as the keys to success after high school.
Leadership Opportunities
Opportunities for students to work on leadership skills continue to grow. We had more than 45 students attend the first session of LEAD (Leading Edge Academy Day) led by Ryan Rausch. Students in LEAD self-select to attend and the group is open to any students who wants to learn and/or improve their leadership skills. This year LEAD students will be reading and studying The 6 Keys to Leading with Intention by Ethan Miller, the activities director at Central Springs School. Ethan will also be joining the group through the year to discuss the book. We had some many students las week that we have to move our meeting space to accommodate!
Seniors have also been split into leadership groups that will meet monthly during intervention time. Adults from the PBIS team will be working with senior on the legacy and impact they want to have at New Hampton High School.
NHS provide an opportunity to grow leaders and are selected based on GPA and an application process. Student are currently completing the applications and, if selected, will begin working on improving and growing their leadership skills in the avenue of serving others.
In addition, the PBIS student team remains active and will begin meeting both on campus and participating in the NEIC student leadership meetings at the CWC three times this year. They help plan PBIS activities, drive the PBIS initiative, and work with other schools in our conference to build relationships among the neighboring schools.
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