What High School Students Want Us to Value Regarding Education

Tweets based on high school students from MHS’s Classics Academy discussing education. Students presented ideas about education during Symposium.  @shklepesch (Scott Klepesch, Supervisor of Instruction) captured the gist of the ideas presented using Twitter (#mhsclassicsacademy ). The students were in the class, Symposium, taught by @mylatinteacher (Mark Gutkowski). Here’s the trasnscript as posted on Twitter. Wondering what you think. 

Expanding vision school environment to include space outside of the building, community is the school #mhsclassicsacademy #schoolenvironment

fostering cross-disciplinary approaches in high school, #mhsclassicsacademy, #interdisciplinary

RT @shklepesch: goals are to offer more classes to address the interests of students, #mhsclassicsacademy, #interest, #passion , #learning

compiling portfolio work over four years of high school, this can be shown to colleges, employers #mhsclassicsacademy, #student portfolios

goals are to offer more classes to address the interests of students, #mhsclassicsacademy, #interest, #passion , #learning

embedding into schedule monthly conferences- time is privileged for students teachers to discuss progress, #mhsclassicsacademy #grading

revise high school grading system- personalized feedback #mhsclassicsacademy, #grading

"If you are ready to graduate- why can't you go and pursue your dreams" #mhsclassicsacademy

@maryannreilly, check out #mhsclassicsacademy, thoughts about what school be like

recommending a reduction is credit requirements to allow more choice, increasing tech and art #mhsclassicsacademy,

"focus on issues of the 21st Century"- "Moving away from grades and standardized testing, #mhsclassicsacademy, #21stcenturylearning

embedding into academies, apprenticeships through work internships, #mhsclassicsacademy, #internships, #mentoringstudents

students could take a half academy, enroll in three instead of 5 core classes, #mhsclassicsacademy

all academies would include a wheel class and work towards reducing class size, #mhsclassicsacademy

passion-based learning through academies, #mhsclassicsacademy, #learning academies

recommending two teacher shifts and moving towards trimesters as opposed to semester, #mhsclassicsacademy, #studentscheduling

recommended goals scheduling, extended school day, later start time, flexibility with time, student designed schedule #mhsclassicsacademy

in Sympodium class for students presentations on education, should be interesting #mhsclassicsacademy