Guests & Visitors: Michelle Owens and Barb Randall ( Both Downtown Rotary)
Announcements:
School Supply Drive for Boys and Girls Club: We're asking members to bring school supplies to help fill the School Supply Bank for kids that need supplies throughout the year. Please bring supplies to our normal meetings through September 20th. Here's a link to the supply list: http://www.cr.k12.ia.us/assets/1/6/K-5_School_Supply_List_18-19.pdf
Micaela Davis has been officially approved in the club, please welcome her.
The communications committee is looking for note takers. This is an easy way to get involved in the club. Reply to this email if you are interested.
Speaker: Laura Seyfer & Amanda Zohrn from Iowa Big
Iowa BIG is a public school with no admissions requirements. Each partnering district has slots proportional to their financial commitment to the program. We currently serve an accurate cross section of our partner districts’ demographics.
Currently, Iowa BIG is a partnership of the Cedar Rapids Community School District, the College Community School District (Prairie) and the Linn-Mar Community School District. Students from these districts pay no tuition, and our teaching staff is employed by these three organizations. Currently, a number of students from Mt. Vernon Community School District pay tuition to attend, thus students from surrounding districts can participate in Iowa BIG.
The core design principles are:
Use student passion to drive deep learning and deliver core academic credits
Engage students in authentic community projects, problems, and opportunities
Connect students more deeply to the people and resources of their community (Cedar Rapids).
We believe that educational options are necessary for every student to be successful. We must provide students with as many contextually-rich experiences as possible so they not only develop basic skills, but, more importantly, they can competently use those skills to solve real problems and make new things happen.
Next week’s speaker: Stacey Walker from SET Task Force