Student+Interviews+&+Book+Study+Assignments+September+12-13

**A. Open Specific ** · What year in school did you just finish? · How long have you been at your school? · What's a great thing happening at your school right now? · What kinds of things do you think you do differently from kids at other grade level **B. Go Broad ** · What are your aspirations for the future? · Why did you choose those? · What do you see that could get in the way of achieving your goals? **C. Probe Deep – ** Tell them: We want to figure out how to create a school that amazes our students. · What's the biggest problem currently in your school? · What do you wish the teachers knew but don't about students? · What do you wish the principal at your school knew but doesn't?   · Have you heard of new ways of doing things at other schools? · <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">What should your school do? · <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Why do you say that? <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">Then, talk to 100 students (teams may divide this number) about their learning experience in your school/district. You may use the specific questions outlined above or questions you create to better understand the needs of your students. **<span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">2) ****<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Book Study – **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> If you signed up for a book study, books were mailed today to district offices, KVEC office, and Asbury office for distribution. Books to Pikeville University and Forward in the Fifth were mailed separately. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Reading assignments:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">1) ****<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Opportunity for Advanced Learning (Homework) – Student Interviews **<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">: Interview three students – 1 elementary, 1 middle, 1 high school – asking these specific questions that were used to interview students at Elkhorn Crossing School:

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> **//Clock Watcher//s** – Chapters 1 –3 <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> **// The Future Belongs to Those Who are FAST //** – pages 1 – 41 <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> **// Leaving to Learn – //** Chapters 1 – 3 <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> **// Unleashed to Learn //** – Part I and Part II <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Please bring your books to the September meeting for discussion over lunch. On-line discussion groups will be organized and log-in information distributed at the September meeting.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">If you did not sign up for a book study and you wish to participate, please email book preference to <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">jobeth.jordan@uky.edu <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> and your book will be mailed to you.