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Dreher explains our amazing Community Partners Program.

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welcome everyone to our fourth and final information session for eighth grade families for Big Picture high school tonight session is all about the community partners program that we run in this building the basically the gist of the program is that while one of the foundations of big picture is about weaving to learn getting kids out of the building another aspect of that is that not all learning and expertise comes from the teachers in this building and so two years ago we had an opportunity to apply for a community engagement grant that the physically says we're going to have Community Partners that are experts in their field come in and work with our students to share that expertise and so you know what covid-19 on it has looked a little bit different this year so you know I'm thinking especially For You Artemis it at Mountain studies I might help you fill in the gaps of what it was like last year when we did not have covid-19 really incredible program there are a few that are not represented here tonight but just a list of our partners we've got the maker is not is kind of Representatives do Teresa and Sasha Cretin are here tonight to talk about the the PowerHouse but the make her laugh is a pretty cool component of students working there on Tuesday open Thursdays that are basically there to come up with creative project designs and executes their vision for their projects we also work with Jungle Gym Durango is now Summit Fitness to run after you eat if you don't know what that is that is essentially American Ninja Warrior but in a gym instead of student survey running obstacle courses and running up warped walls and things of that nature we all sound starting started literally on Monday a partnership with an organization called In The Weeds that's run by Flame Bailey he's a former sous-chef at the El Morro and at Carver and he started a non-profit that is all about mental health in the restaurant industry and so he's working 2 days a week with our students one one of the day of the week is it in the classroom he's working 2 days a week where they're discussing culinary Basics and how to kitchen to operate and then also tackling how to deal with the pressures in the craziness of working in a kitchen and healthy coping strategies and that kind of thing and then on Fridays the students are spending the entire afternoon at Manna soup kitchen getting getting actual culinary arts instruction so that's pretty cool so Friday is their first day in the kitchen and then the last one this is not here tonight is the hive Durango we're working with them for an art program so they have to answer pictures that come in Monday Wednesday and Friday for the entire year and run hour-and-a-half-long art classes for students basically in each of our sessions they do something very different so each session they pitch different ideas for projects they're going to be working on this this session is all about fashion design and sell it and so we'll see where that goes I can't wait to see what our kids come up with so before introducing by just a couple things about the program this is our second year of running this and we have some new partners and some that have been here for longer than the grant even existed like I am music but some pretty strong data from year one so year one 91% of students that attended at least one of our community partner session had an increase in there then that's pretty impressive data when you're talking about a school engagement you know that's that a battle we fight in Durango across-the-board is attendance in so for me to see a significant increase in that says a lot about what works out that they would much rather listen to Ash as a professional musician talk about music and instruct music than me who is tone deaf and just a professional appreciator so anyway without further Ado you I'm going to introduce Ashley from I music to talk a little bit about their program and their partnership cool thanks so much for inviting us to be here I'm really excited just to be collaborating still with big picture since 2013 it's our longest standing program which is super amazing we've been very welcomed and loved the partnership so I'm just a little about iMusic iMusic is an ecosystem of empowerment education and a so it's founded by artists for artists and we are creative helper call operation so we're helping connect youth showcase career-minded musicians and help stimulate the creative pecan meet at I like our big picture so how that works through big picture is we have had some awesome internships kind of like them more personal connection one-on-one with students we also do Groupon some classes and kind of work with bands on current and relevant music that I want to work on Wii work on songwriting and vocals and it's really about empowering a personal expression Play Music as of course like all of the technical aspects and you know really helping students have great facility on their instrument but the number one thing is to connect them with each who inspired leadership and really Express who they are and feel comfortable doing that with like an authentic you know coming from an authentic place so honestly I'm totally not being bias cuz your ears but this is big picture but big sister has been my favorite program because since the beginning because the students are just so engaged like they're so happy it to be president involved and it's really been inspiring for us to carry that energy into other programs like a chess and and you know formerly did near just to see how the students are working with us in and that level of Engagement and won't creates that it's been really strong through the big freezer program and so we've had incredible performances really strong student bonds ties that teacher to student relationship is really strong as a lot of friendship and mentorship that comes with that so we really try to just keep that strong and we've had a lot of creative freedom with how we do the program because of the faculty and the administration and the passion behind a picture so we're just we're just happy to keep it growing and every year it's just been X-Men and actually more interesting and even in 2020 and now it's my 21 yeah it's still it's still going so we're really happy to be a part awesome thank you Ashley all right I'm going to go in order of who looks most comfortable if that's okay with everybody so I would like to introduce Nick Slough from Colorado clay to tell us a little bit about his is Oregon perfectly do cuz they're right next door to I am music so that next taken away thank you everybody this is my first meeting with you guys so really really excited I hope you can hear me not sure if you can I moved here like 9 years years ago to Durango phone lover this town graduated from the port was super excited just to be a part of this community and I was trying to make a decision to go to grad school but there's no way I was leaving. I actually decided to open this little Studio like 3 years ago called Colorado Clay Studio and my focus was just work with the kids basically to going to reach out to Mountain Middle School big picture you noticed I think you need that didn't have an opportunity to have art in the classrooms and just kind of hair with these organizations and see what we can make happen to know so I took the chance so we did it and I've been just really really happy just to kind of work with Dre probably just won the most easy-going like individuals I've ever met. Do you honestly the kids the kids at the school or just like outstanding like Ashley was saying they're really easy to connect with by far one of my favorite classes is the high school kids there they're really open asking questions which I like and I'm taking through like the entire process of making a pot which is not really easy so don't like we're starting with a block of clay do not making a pot which I know if anybody's are made of piece of pottery is not easy these kids are testing their patients I'm seeing them relax a lot more since you know they start coming through the door so it's kind of really therapeutic for them and therapeutic for me too do you like the growth rate and yeah it's just really grateful to be a part of this honestly some of the things that I really just kind of focused on with big pictures just like kind of making them just like cake possibility with a pot because there's so many steps there's four different steps you make it the trim it and then it might blow up in the account because there could be an air bubble so there goes your hope of having a pot and he come back to glazen it and that's just like kind of a mystery so so it's kind of fun to see all their questions and I'm going to work with this program so I have a special place in my heart for Colorado clay because I was a Ceramics major when I entered undergrad and I quickly learned that it took way too much time effort and dedication for me and quickly changed Majors like seriously after what's the master has like no it took all the joy out of it for me so I appreciate having someone like Nick that has the patience to stick to it and help our kids learn the stick-to-itiveness that's where Drake I did not have it night so thanks Nick that's awesome and lips go so hard I feel like I'm popcorn calling on kids in class is next I'm going to have Artemis 7 the last Beauty before you thin let Sasha and Theresa discuss what their programming looks like from the powerhouse yeah we're here tonight representing the PowerHouse Science Center and maker lab you know where I nonprofit it's hocus is in our Museum on Hands-On stem education we also do Outreach field trips all that kind of stuff and then we have this in a separate building the maker lab umbrella but sometimes function differently when kids get their hands on with the electronics lab teachers on our staff of seven ratios in pretty good and so luckily enough we've been able to partner with big picture and feel like this year we have two Insurance to freshman boys that are interning with us three aspects of Museum boys never do the same thing twice anything from working with our facilities manager with our marketing curriculum first education stuff to where you can fabricate what is that you want to do then right now coming up to this spring at the end of the school year. She and I will be teaching a pretty formal chemistry class for the big picture student there and we're hoping to carry that kind of Education follow different signs backgrounds on internet coming years with big picture like being there can you partner the right down the road we had just such good interactions with them in the past that we hope that we'd and I are both kind of excited about like getting back and taking a little bit of chemistry as well as high school can and just doing it really differ in the big picture model so I'm going to give you what the newest educational member of mountain Studies Institute this is our second year actually our third year working with mountain studies and seven years past it's been a partnership where our science teacher worked with Educators from MSI to do to do field science and then with covid-19 we had a you'll need to have more formal science instruction in the building because of Transportation issues to Artemis join us as a first-time teacher in the middle of code with a population of students that don't follow traditional curriculum so imma let her talk about how fun that's awesome thanks to Yer it's definitely been a. Of growth for me so I'm an Americorps member survey studies and recently a college graduate so I've not had that much experience in the classroom and it's been it's been very rewarding to me to see my progression from the fall through now of real like what works and what doesn't work and it's been really great to also learn so much through figuring out how I want to teach things and so just to give you an overview of sore like the breath of Mount study so we're basic a science and education organization and so we have teams that study water and Forest Health and mounting systems and then I'm part of the group that does the more like education and community outreach and sober in that is still trying to think about what are these main systems that we're studying how can we then teach that the high school students so in the fall I let accession on water quality and we went down to the river alive and I'm look for bugs in the river and did Labs about acid mine drainage and differences of locally relevant things the way to water quality and then later in the fall we switched for the second session and talked about Forrest Health we went up on the hill by Fort Lewis and measured tree density and talked about wildfires and learned more about that those ecosystems and how they operate and I just finished the session on climate science which is really fun we did lots of graphing which the students I don't know if they thought it was fun I thought it was fun to see the progression of that was one of the things I realize there's a lot of times there's a lot of fear around like looking at now looking at graph I thought okay like we're going to make this simple let's break it into steps were going to have lots of practice and by the end. Students talk about the slope and what the slope means made me feel so I could feel that yes the seeing that growth through watching students learn as in really fulfilling and yeah I mean now we're doing a session on environmental issues and had a great discussion on Monday about sustainability and really sort of like engaging with the students as you know bringing their own expertise to the table I think it's something that I've been trying to do and three more experience that's been getting easier to do as well and you're not sure what next year is happy that look like but I assume more probably the traditional love you know getting outside and practicing science skills of making observations collecting data and then following up of analyzing that data and drawing conclusions from it like the main features that MSI would help to support it's always nice when something you said was effective so you should know that somebody from your first session email me today a list of all the reasons why beavers are better than humans in a discussion about acid mine drainage I'll share it with you hopefully Friday but it was pretty funny to me I'm like that like 4 months ago but stuck in their brain and they're not wrong so so just a couple of the other pieces so there's kind of a theme with our partners it's really a focus Beyond PE it's it's about Arts and Sciences and that's because well there's a few different reasons as far as Arts go we're very small school so are our teachers in this building are all core content specialist if you will in in the other piece for me is really just about it's evident just in hearing all of you talk that you're passionate about what you do and so you know my I like call kids nerds and they look at me all weird and then I'm like no that's a compliment like that's a good thing I want you to be nerdy I want you to nerd out on the subject that get you excited I don't care if that's cuz you finally figured out how to hit scales on a guitar are you threw a pot on your first attempt without it crumbling to the ground or you really really understood the process of setting something on fire all of that makes me happy to hear about you so I just keep it it's nice mou together as a group I feel like I get to communicate via text message or occasional visit but what you do is really cool and I have data to prove that it's effective and that combination of things is pretty powerful

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