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January Staff and Students to Celebrate!
These students and staff were recognized for their excellence at our January Community Meeting
Presidential Scholars
Click on the image to read the blog post celebrating Malayna Sweet-Werneke and Peyton Metruk as Vermont Presidential Scholars.
Career & Technical Education Students
Essex Tech Senior Brody Leduc works with tools in the Natural Resources Mechanical program. Brody received a Quarter 2 Awesomeness Award!
Kagan Whiteman shadowing a procedure at Interventional Radiology at UVM medical center.
Burlington Tech and Essex Tech Centers visit to share their program information with 9th and 10th grade students.
This month's pictures are organized by the five Transferable Skills students work on in their classes. These skills are highlighted in our Portrait of a Graduate and build students' capacity for career and college readiness.
This month's pictures are organized by the five Transferable Skills students work on in their classes. These skills are highlighted in our Portrait of a Graduate and build students' capacity for career and college readiness.
Clear and Effective Communication
Students can demonstrate organized and purposeful communication.
Students can gather information from actively speaking, listening, and participating in class.
This is a French Foundations 2 activity that involved spinning a color wheel, making deliveries to different houses, and using the target language to share how many of each package you received.
The Writing for Careers class drafts outlines for cover letters.
The French Foundations 2 students are doing a summative activity. They are going from station to station and completing tasks with a partner, using the comparative structures we've been working on to write French sentences.
AP Language students explore the differences between the ethical theories of Consequentialism, Social Contracts, and Virtue Ethics, as related to their reading of Macbeth.
Self Direction
Students have self-awareness, initiative, flexibility, and resilience in their learning.
Students have individual responsibility for their learning.
Students use technology to support and enhance their learning.
A Math 1 student uses desmos.com to experiment with linear inequalities.
In Foundations in Art, students apply acrylic paint techniques using color to express an emotion (students have choice in subject and and style).
Great self-direction is required for a student working on an online Gothic Literature class.
Students study vocabulary using a sorting stragety.
Creative and Practical Problem Solving
Students observe and evaluate situations in order to solve problems.
Students persist in solving challenging problems and learn from failure.
Students in the Art of Craft course are learning about embroidery and their own perseverance.
The Financial Literacy class learns how home mortgages work.
Students in the Markets and Investing class create Capitalism Mind Maps which demonstrate their understanding of the different concepts of American Capitalism.
Students in a Foundations of Global Citizenship class assign project roles to each other for that day's class.
Informed and Integrative Thinking
Students apply knowledge from multiple sources to make sense of their learning.
Students apply prior knowledge to the current task.
Ecology students work in groups to learn about wildebeest migration in Serengeti National Park. They use this as a case study for understanding why and how we conserve lands.
Geometry Applications students are designing skate parks using knowledge of surface area and volume.
The Mandarin class is preparing for the Chinese Lunar New Year by doing traditional paper cutting.
Students analyze the Declaration for Human Rights in Foundations of Global Citizenship class.
Responsible and Involved Citizenship
Students take responsibility for their actions and understand their impact on the community.
Students collaborate effectively and respectfully.
Band rehearsal relies on constant collaboration and responsibility among members.
Foundations in Science class considers the costs and benefits of energy production on communities.
Students compete in a minute-to-win-it challenge at the January Community Meeting.
Counseling Department
January Newsletters from the Counseling Office
This picture is from the course fair on Tuesday, January 23rd. Thanks to all who joined us!
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