In the past 10 years there has been an increasing amount of pressure placed on educators to show that their students are having success. The simplest way to show success is to highlight students who have scored well on a test, been accepted at a top college or earned a scholarship or award. We have plenty of these sorts of success stories; they help paint a picture to show that KPBSD is doing well. While it is easy to be enamored with the scholarship or the prize, we also need to pay attention to the success stories that do not have the same sort of social allure. We have many students who are having success in a less public manner. On Tuesday I had the good fortune to meet three such students who are a part of Project Search.
Project Search is a program that provides employability skills, training and workplace internships for individuals with significant disabilities, particularly youth transitioning from high school to adult life. Our three students are spending their senior year as a part of this program and are benefitting from our partnerships with Central Peninsula Hospital, the Governor’s Council on Disabilities and Special Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Frontier Community Services. My brief interaction with the three students made me proud that our district is reaching beyond the traditional boundaries of school. Let’s make sure that we look for multiple ways to measure student success.
Project Search
In the past 10 years there has been an increasing amount of pressure placed on educators to show that their students are having success. The simplest way to show success is to highlight students who have scored well on a test, been accepted at a top college or earned a scholarship or award. We have plenty of these sorts of success stories; they help paint a picture to show that KPBSD is doing well. While it is easy to be enamored with the scholarship or the prize, we also need to pay attention to the success stories that do not have the same sort of social allure. We have many students who are having success in a less public manner. On Tuesday I had the good fortune to meet three such students who are a part of Project Search.
Project Search is a program that provides employability skills, training and workplace internships for individuals with significant disabilities, particularly youth transitioning from high school to adult life. Our three students are spending their senior year as a part of this program and are benefitting from our partnerships with Central Peninsula Hospital, the Governor’s Council on Disabilities and Special Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Frontier Community Services. My brief interaction with the three students made me proud that our district is reaching beyond the traditional boundaries of school. Let’s make sure that we look for multiple ways to measure student success.