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Moving Forward

Moving Forward

We can hardly believe that we have nearly completed Foundations. It is incredibly exciting to see so much potential in our students, and we are eager to watch them begin to capitalize those prospects through their work. Next week, students will be working through seminars designed to help them organize ideas and develop effective goals to drive the work needed to design solutions through their interests and passions. Though we are going slow to move fast, it is so inspiring t

Pivot the Can't

Pivot the Can't

We can't believe that we are already upon our second weekend with our Blueprint group. Day by day they are revealing their unbelievable potential. They tapped into it this week by focusing on how to pivot the can't. The first step to their mind shift was changing their phrasing from "I can't" to "I choose not to." The thinking here is that the ownership shifts onto yourself, meaning that you have the power to change the obstacle before you. The heart of our seminars this week

Pivot Your Thinking

We had a great week! Blueprinters continue to show higher level thinking as they explore growth mindsets and end their first week by "Pivoting their thinking". We began the day with a great video about seeing things differently made by Apple. This began conversationsabout perspective, and helped us as we made connections to the thinking of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai, and her perspective on education. Today we also offered three different seminars: "Let's

Refilling the Happy Bar

Refilling the Happy Bar

It seems hard to believe that we are only finishing up day two, because our Blueprinters are professionals! They continue to enfold themselves in process and we are humbled by their patience with us! Blueprinters rotated through three seminars today: Get Connected, Keys to BP, and The Power of HMW. During Get Connected, the kiddos got their tech devices logged on to wifi, and were able to explore our different Google Classroom sites. In Keys to BP, we explored the process of

Let the Adventure Begin

Let the Adventure Begin

We were absolutely blown away by our Blueprinters today! Not only did they come open to exploring something unfamiliar, but they were so eager to embrace change and new challenges. I think we are all exhausted, but in the best possible way as our first day was filled to the brim. We asked our kids to think a lot today, specifically focusing on assumptions - the assumptions they may have for each other, for school, for the Blueprint program, for us, and even for themselves. W

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