This week, we ride the elevator up and down and get an Elevator Pitch each way. The first is from Danielle Chastain, the principal of Riverside Intermediate School. Danielle makes the argument for the importance of relationships and resources, and she want Hamilton Southeastern Schools to have a culture of learning for students and for adults.On the trip back down, Stephanie reminisces about a family trip to the apple orchard and explains how the use of simple technology can amplify and extend the experience for her daughter.
Enjoy the ride!
From Danielle: Relationships, Resources, and Learning for ALL
Looking through the lens as both an educator and a parent of HSE students, I have
come to the following conclusions:
Our/My children deserve:
- A flexible 21st Century learning environment conducive to child-centered learning, one where ALL students and teachers thrive;
- A class size favorable for building meaningful, trusting, positive relationships;
- A class size that allows teachers to truly know their students as readers, writers, mathematicians, artists, musicians, scientists, athletes, and historians;
- Engaging collaborative, student-centered instruction to take students to the cutting edge of their creativity and competence; and
- A teacher who has had access to HSE21 professional development, resources, and materials.
This is
what I want for my children. And as a member
of this community, I believe that ALL
Hamilton Southeastern Schools students are “my children.”
Respond to Danielle at: dchastain@hse.k12.in.us
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HSE21 at the apple orchard!
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From Stephanie: Amp it Up!
When families ask about HSE 21 and the impact at
the elementary level, I pull up a photo on my phone...
Our family has enjoyed visiting orchards since I
was a child. Treasurers to see, smell, touch, hear and taste. Our most recent
visits have been amplified by the use of a device as a tool. We used our
device to amplify our experience.
Katie Muhtaris and Kristin Ziemke in their most
recent book, Amplify, ask us to consider what we hold dear as
true early childhood and elementary experiences and find ways they can be simply
enhanced or amplified through the use of a device.
Snapping photos at the orchard, recording bee vibrations
and pollination techniques with iMovie, keeping track of our favorite
samples and varieties of apples in our note keeping app, using Pinterest to find new
apple recipes, and investigating further questions.
The car ride home after that visit continued on in an amplified
fashion because we had questions about how the summer drought and harsh winter
impacted one of our favorite apple varieties and left many of the trees bare.
The girls read to us about the impact and found videos that amplified
our understanding.
Our children will always need the developmentally
appropriate experiences in school that engage all of their senses. We use a
device to amplify those experiences, ask them to push their thinking,
bring it home to talk further about their new understandings, and then cozy up
to a warm bowl of fresh applesauce!
Respond to Stephanie at: sloane@hse.k12.in.us
Enjoy your three-day weekend. Next week look for more reasons to support Hamilton Southeastern Schools and HSE21.
Your HSE Teaching and Learning Team
- Jan Combs, Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning
- Stephanie Loane, Director of Elementary Education
- Tom Bell, Director of Special Education
- Jeff Harrison, Director of Educational Technology
- Phil Lederach, Director of Secondary Education
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