Educational years

recently changed its mission statement to “Inspire Every Child to Follow Their Path to Leadership and Learning! This mission encompasses the new Personalized Learning opportunity MES has been selected to be a part of beginning with the 2015-2016 school year. As a Personalized Learning school, students and staff will begin to explore with individualized instruction that meets students at their current levels! This shift in instruction will ensure the teachers and staff at MES are focused on the "whole

Ana has trouble making, keeping, and connecting with friends. When given an opportunity to interact with peers including lunch, recess, and free time in class, Ana will initiate and maintain appropriate conversations or activities with peers 80% of the time in 3 out of 4 opportunities as measured by teacher observations, teacher charting, and student self-rating checklist by December 9, 2016 (Lake County School District, n.d.). Ana had stable attendance from K through 7th grade missing an average

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics. Experiential learning is more than watching a teacher in the classroom; it is learning about the passion of education and how to provide students with the tools and inspiration they need to excel. During my experiential learning, I was in three different classrooms: kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Each classroom was arranged differently to accommodate the students, the

Running Naritive Running is my life….. I depend on it. It all started when I was little about the age when I could start walking/running. I am a very competitive person give me the opportunity to win or try to win against my brother I am in! So I would race against him all the time and I would win. My parents thought nothing about it until at a party. My cousins and I were running around and playing and one of my oldest cosines Darik. Darik was a cross country runner who normally got first place

For as long as I can remember, my main priority has been my friends. I would do anything for my friends, and I’m fairly certain that most of them know it. I’ve gained and lost a lot of friends over the years, be it simply because I move or they move or maybe because we simply drifted apart over time. When I was younger I had many friends move away, but I still have many memories of them. First friends Before elementary school and into preschool, I had two close friends named Reilly and Sidot that

Hameed Abdul. Often times I honestly forget my own name. The words roll around my head like a gimmicky concept. Potential. Something that I personally value is the continual growth of a person while in search for a higher purpose. So far throughout all of my experiences my life has presented me with evolutionary pressure needed to form self identity. Because the journey itself has been truly amazing, I have conflicting views on which parts I resonated with the most. My current circumstances and

Ten books. The assignment was to bring in just ten books that influenced us in our childhood thus far. I went home and stared at my bookshelf, working again and again to make the pile on the ground in front of me smaller. Eventually, I had the most concise group books I could possibly have, and the next day I dragged three tote bags filled with thirty-seven books into my fifth grade classroom. My classmates sat quietly while they heard the girl who they rarely heard speak give a synopsis of and praise

because I have felt that the quality of my skills are low. When I was in third grade, my teacher had a reading competition for my class. Whoever read the most books and had the most Accelerated Reader points would win a trophy at the end of the year. Participation in the reading contest was mandatory. Whenever my teacher told me to read, I would read. I did not enjoyed it, but I would still do it simply because my teacher told me to. However, I wanted to win that competition more than anything

My mother always told me “Trust no one” she only told me this because she didn't like this girl I was friends with. She knew she was trouble right away. The first day I met her was in fourth grade. I was new to the school, I was in the same class as her, I sat next to her, she would always talk to me, she got the stuff that I needed, etc. Then she stopped coming to school for like a week straight. Then I found out she moved to Oklahoma. I figured it out from this guy that was friends with her. He

Unexpected “It’s the unexpected that changes our life”. Life is full of unexpected things some are good and some are bad. In my case most of them were bad I only had one good unexpected experience. The year of 2004, was a traumatic experience for me it was the first time I saw my mother on the ground in tears. My parents, sister and I slept in the same room. My sister and I had these nice sturdy dark brown made out of wood bunk beds. She slept on the top and I slept on the bottom bed since I was