*Vision-The+Beginning

On Day 1 we began to articulate our **20/20 Vision** by making a list of what members hoped students would take from their experiences within the classroom. The following is a list of the responses to the question, **"How do you hope students will be transformed as a result of being in your classroom this semester?"**

Students are:
 * Acquiring life skills - (i.e. being active, choosing healthy lifestyles, etc.)
 * Developing an intrinsic need and desire to be their best
 * Taking risks
 * Seeing connections between different disciplines; looking for real-life applications
 * "Catching" contagious enthusiasm, sharing our passions and making them their own, becoming active learners
 * Accepting and meeting their teachers' high expectations and transforming those into self-confidence
 * Learning that hard work pays off
 * Using relationships to build their own support systems
 * Believing in themselves and in their dreams
 * Knowing what it feels like to be successful
 * Seeing in their teachers a model of the values that lead to a happy and productive life
 * Having teaches value them and see their potential
 * Being college and job ready upon high school graduation
 * Looking at the Big Picture of why they're here, how they learn, what grades mean, etc.
 * Being meta-cognitive
 * Learning to organize, access, evaluate, process, manage the growing wealth of information in the 21st century world
 * Getting ready to be globally competetive
 * Seeing relevance to the real world in their high school studies

Staff is:
 * Looking at how we assess our students' progress toward these goals
 * Helping students see the connections between what they are learning at HHS and the real world
 * Working to bring about these transformations in a modern context that moves not at a snail's pace but at "digital world" speed. This means we are getting training, collaborating, observing each other, taking risks, and being willing to be tech learners and expose our lack of techy confidence
 * Shifting to a new paradign -- as facilitators rather than "sages on the stage"
 * Attending not to just what is urgent but also to what is vital
 * Giving kids the opportunity to get a well-rounded education