Doing history through art

Our Social Movements Illustrated Exhibition is Monday Nov. 23rd! All family, friends, and community members are invited to join us in the newly renovated Wood Hall from 4-5 pm.

Last week MPX students sketched drafts of their final artworks expressing social movements. They were visited by students from the advanced art classes for consultations on their work. The MPX students said the feedback was incredibly helpful and adjusted their art based on the feedback.

Top 3 benefits of the bike shop classroom

On Friday we went to Kvibe bike shop where students worked on prepping their bikes to race. It was great to see them getting to test ride their bikes now that the breaks are all working properly.

Top 3 benefits when your classroom is a bike shop:

#1: Real-world experts. Galen is a mechanic with a wealth of knowledge. He works one-on-one with the students to get their bikes up and rolling.

#2: Getting Dirty. Here Kelsi and Dan are getting greasy in the shade. 

#3: Physical movement. Here Liam, Solomon, Brooks, Aleks, and Dr. Hines are all test riding their bikes.

Integrating "low tech & high tech" in the classroom

Last week in MPX humanities students worked on organizing their notes on the Emancipation Proclamation subjects into outlines and then drafted their papers.  Here Kelsi did a beautiful job with this "low tech" outlining strategy of cutting up her notes and glueing them into the paragraphs she needed. Beautiful job citing your sources Kelsi!

In MPX STEM/Humanities combined, students completed their infographics explaining how global climate change affects various species and presented them to the class.












Finally, in a high-tech after-school opportunity, Dane, Brooks, and Cole attended a training with me on how to use the school's new 360 go-pro camera. Moving into second semester we are going to try to plan a project which utilizes this incredible resource.