Student Profile: A Personalized Experience
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Savannah
A deeper learner from:
EdVisions
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Nicole: If you're feeling more drawn to this one, then you are drawn to "Sense and Sensibility" right now.
Savannah: It's just boring. All they talk about is like the gossip and everything, and marriages.
Nicole: So important.
Savannah: Boring.
Lower Third:
Savannah
11th Grade Student
Minnesota New Country School, Henderson, MN
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Savannah: I'm Savannah. I'm go to the Minnesota New Country School. This is my sixth year at the school and I'm a junior this year.
Savannah: I think what I'm going to do is I'm going hold off on it for a little while, because I only have about a week and a half to get science fair ready.
Savannah: My relationship with my advisor is one like a friend. They're there for me to help lead me with my teaching, but they also care about what I'm learning and what I want to accomplish in my life, and they help me make individualized learning plans from what I want to do, what I want to do to succeed.
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Savannah: Is there any way that I could do my presentation and then do my paper, or do I have to do--?
Nicole: Yes. Yep, so that's an ask that you have for the junior team?
Savannah: Yeah.
Lower Third:
Nicole Kotasek
Advisor/Teacher
Minnesota New Country School, Henderson, MN
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Nicole: The philosophy of the school is that we're here to meet the needs of the student. What a student needs is what a student is going to get. Every single student has their own plan and we work on that with the students, so they're also empowered to help build that plan.
Lower Third:
Keven Kroehler
Executive Director,
EdVisions Schools
Keven: It's really focusing on the student, who the student is, where they're at, where they want to be. How am I going to get there?
Savannah: When you are choosing a project, sometimes you really don't know what you're going to be doing with that project, and so that’s in the end when the teachers come together and they decide, "Oh, well you took this unexpected route, but that was really cool, because you learned math it in," and that's something I did with this.
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Completed Project: Quilting
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Savannah: So this actually started out as an activity that my advisor led. She explained to us a little bit about the process of quilting and choosing colors. I thought I was going to make a quilt that day and just be done, but it turns out it was a lot more than that. The thing that surprised me the most was how much math was involved, and how much perseverance I had to do to get through it. I learned a lot about geometry, for how to measure how much fabric I'm going to need, how many yards of fabric I'm going to need. A lot of home
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ec. I worked about 60 hours on the quilt. I got the blocks done at first, and then we put the sashing in, and then we put the border on. And then the binding was probably the hardest part, because you have to hand sew all around there. There was times that I was frustrated. There was times that I just wanted to give up, but I kept going, and in the end, I got beautiful products. So I think it's really important, because you're not always going to have that easy road in life.
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Student Advisory: Project Proposal
Savannah: So I'm wondering if it's the soil type.
Nicole: Okay.
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Savannah: That's making a difference, and then I was wondering if I could do something where I looked at the different soils in the US, and compared it to my results and see if those made a difference.
Nicole: Excellent.
Savannah: I've wanted to be a geologist since I've been about nine, which is a very interesting career. A lot of people ask me, "Well, it's rocks." Well, it's a lot more than rocks and so a lot of my projects about-- in the school have been focused about earth science and geology, but I've also gotten different areas in the standards done with them. I've gotten math, I've gotten history, I've gotten social studies. So I'm focusing on what I want, but also meeting the other criteria.
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Nicole: There might be some desert geology pieces, and I'll give you a copy of this note.
Savannah: Doing more geography with this than I imagined too.
Nicole: Yep.
Nicole: The deeper learning comes from them experiencing a variety of things and realizing what is important to them and what isn't important to them. And the personal learning plans help guide us in that conversation we have with the student.
Keven: The other part of that personal plan is connecting it with standards. So you did this, you did this great project, you built this wonderful thing. Does that actually connect to any of the state standards?
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Student Advisory: Project Review
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Nicole: What is your thesis right now? Did you change it, or is it still--?
Savannah: Well, it's about beauty and what it is scientifically and mathematically, culturally, historically.
Nicole: Okay, so you've got beauty scientifically?
Savannah: Mathematically.
Nicole: Mathematically, which is related to that. It's that whole--
Savannah: Yup, the symmetry and then the perfect golden ratio.
Nicole: I know that this method of teaching and learning works, because I see students grow into adults who know what they want in this world and are ready to go get it.
Savannah: I'm just like, I don't know.
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Savannah: We have a lot of flexibility and freedom, but it's also something that you have to manage your time, you have to make sure you are getting your credit. In the end, I'm going to look back on it and it's going to be something I'm proud of.
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