The Cardinal Way

This work will not be easy. It never is, but it is why we are called to serve as educators. We must work to equip students with the skills they need to reach their full potential. Every student is starting at a different place, and some will even be further behind this year due to the past year’s struggles. We must provide a high level of care and an appropriate level of expectation as we get kids back into the learning environment. For students to execute their plans and make their vision a reality, we must equip them with skills that go far beyond the content. To make this happen, we must approach each student’s learning with the desire to make them take ownership of their work and leave them with a desire to want to know more.

None of what I just described will be easy. It is going to take a great deal of encouragement. The most significant factor in making critical repairs to the brain is relationships. As we come back to school, there are going to continue to be struggles. There will be behaviors that we will not like from our students as we work to re-engage them in school. When rules supersede relationships, we miss opportunities to unlock students’ full potential. We must focus on being encouragers to help students fully engage in school.

Be a Cardinal; Change Lives; Put a Mission into Motion

Thank you to:

• Caleb Francis, Austin Lundsford, and Jacki Richardson for taking our theater students on a field trip today.
• Sara Berghoff, Sam Hanley, and Mike Klopfenstien for taking our publications students to J-Day at Ball State today.

Congratulations to Sara Neville for being named the National FCCLA Advisor of the Year!!

Congratulations to The Journal/The Journal Rewired who won the Cardinal Award for News Program of the Year!

Week 33: Grateful Friday Challenge

Well, here we are…the last Friday in April! May is right around the corner even though the weather cannot figure out if we are in winter, spring, or summer. Hopefully, May will bring some consistently warm days. Warm weather makes everything seem a little nicer! We walk with a little more spring in our step (pun intended), we smile a little bigger, we laugh a little more easy -- we might even sing or write odes to the warming days.

So, this Grateful Friday Challenge will be short, sweet, and to the point… Let us wax poetic about ourselves and our teaching philosophies in some Haikus! Yep, you read that right -- no long-winded papers, no getting bored of hearing about or reading about long-winded ideas… short, sweet, and to the point.

For those of you who are thinking of limericks - NO - these are Haikus… A "Haiku" is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. Haiku poems consist of 3 lines. The first and last lines of a Haiku have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables. The lines rarely rhyme.

Today we will write

About what we think is right

About what we do

Smiling to start class

Laughing to the lesson’s point

Time goes by too fast

Lead with gratefulness

So people will push themselves

All become better

The following document will collect your idea(s) and your poems: Educational Philosophy Haiku

Write one or many

To share with everyone here

Leading and Learning

With banners flying as we go…

The Riley Dance Marathon raised over $16,000 to donate to Riley Children's Hospital during the past year. The marathon concluded with the revealing of the total dollar amount. We appreciate the efforts of Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Schott, and Mr. Leonard over the past year in supporting our students through RDM!

Mrs. Brunsell's students are learning how the ozone layer in the Earth's atmosphere. Students participated in a simulation where they could track how UV light and other particles move more easily as the ozone layer deletes. The students were able to track the number of "particles" they could get through the ozone and use this as it is related to the Earth's atmosphere.

Mr. Jamriska's Creative Writing students took a chance to change scenery and visit the LMC this week. Students read through different student writing samples to help provide feedback to each other. The students examined how word choice impacts the story being told in their writing.

Terrion Washington was awarded a full tution scholarship to the University of Indianapolis School of Engineering on Thursday. Southport High School in partnership with UIndy is able to select one student to receive this scholarship. Officials from UIndy along with the mascot Grady visited SHS on Thursday to award this scholarship to Terrion!

The SHS School Counseling Office hosted a job fair this week. Students were able to sign up to learn more about different career opportunities. Some of the organizations also gathered students' information as they are looking for summer employment. The Job Fair not only provided students with real-world information about careers but also will hopefully end up in summer employment opportunities for our students.

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