Moving From the Margins – Online College/Career Readiness and Experiential Learning in a COVID19 World!

Presented on November 18, 2020

Where Students Lead Video Clip

Quotes:

“There is no syllabus for life.”

“Does school show your talent or what you’re really worth?”
–CAPS student thoughts on K-12 education 

“What is the recipe for success in education?”
–Mike Realon

"Creative, innovative programs have been happening in education for years. They go against the grain of the one-size, factory-model of teaching and learning. The pandemic is opening the eyes of people as to what is possible."
– Amy Valentine

Panelists

Dr. Shaun McAlmont, K12 Inc.
Currently serves as President of Career Learning Solutions at K12, Inc. (NYSE:LRN) and manages the company’s fast-growing career and workforce development programs.

Dr. Kim Nolan, Northeastern University NExT Network
Associate Teaching Professor in the Graduate Programs in Education including the Doctor of Education program. Her research interests include school climate, experiential learning, action research and student-centered schools. Dr. Nolan is a leader within Northeastern’s Network of Experiential Learning Educators (NExT) within the Graduate School of Education and throughout the university. She is the lead faculty for the Ed.D program in the Southeast Region.

Corey Mohn, Blue Valley Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) and the CAPS Network
Executive Director of Blue Valley CAPS, empowering high school students to fast-forward into their future through real-world business projects and the development of professional skills.  Prior to CAPS, Corey served as Director of Statewide Programs for the Kansas Center for Entrepreneurship.

Mike Realon, Olympic High School
Mike has been at the Olympic High School for the last 17 years, a campus housing all 5 different NAF career academies and an innovative high school who is part of the Bill and Melinda Gates small schools movement. While gravitating towards the Gates Foundation’s core values that modern American high schools should strive to develop youth who can succeed in school, work and life, Olympic’s five career academies have ALL received the rare and lofty national ranking from the National Academy Foundation of being “Distinguished”, and Olympic is only the 3rd High School in America to ever achieve this truly rare feat in over 40 years. Of its 600 graduating seniors this year, over 500 of them will receive a nationally recognized certificate of being both “Career AND College Ready.”

Student Moderator

Jemar Lee,
Future of School Student Ambassador. Jemar has a passion for transforming the education system to ensure all students experience an education that is built off of equity and assures that no matter what background, ethnicity, or social-economic status that one will succeed. By doing this, he serves as a fellow with Education Reimagined, a national non-profit based in Washington DC that is focused on transforming the K-12 education system in the United States and a Future of School ambassador.