This document celebrates Grandparents Day at CLC school and discusses the school's philosophy of transformative learning. It highlights how the school focuses on putting students at the center and emphasizing teachers as leaders, parents as partners, and project-based/service learning. Examples are given of applied academics projects in areas like solar cars, model UN, and integrated arts. The school aims to cultivate curiosity and provide a collaborative, choice-filled environment of friendship and imagination for students. In the end, the school expresses its love for grandparents on this special day.

1. Welcome!
Grandparents Day 2014

2. CLC
Yesterday to Tomorrow
Grandparents Day 2014

3. Intros &
Connections

4. Who are we?

5. Is this best for students?
Is this inevitable?

6. Can curiosity survive an education?

7. Philosophical Foundations

8. Philosophical Foundations

9. Students at the Center

10. Teachers as Leaders

11. Parents as Partners

12. Teachers as Leaders
+
Parents as Partners
+
Project Based Learning
+
Social Justice / Service Learning
+
Core Values
=
Transformative Learning

13. Mr. Kelso’s Land

14. Becomes our land

15. And our gardening
/ farming tradition
takes shape

16. Service Learning
The Shelter circa 2002

17. Joe Budd . . .
All Hands
on Deck

18. From Environmental Awareness

19. To Environmental Advocacy

20. To Environmental Restoration and
Sustainability

21. (Nearly 15,000 Longleaf pine trees
planted to date.)

22. Service Learning today
Partnership & Student Driven

23. Integrated Arts

24. Community Sing
(Originally “Friday Sing”)

25. Community Sing

26. Community Sing Today:
Composition & Performance

27. Arts Integration
Neural Networks & Creativity

28. Arts Integration
All School Play

29. Applied Academics
On-going Problem Solving

30. Applied Academics
State Solar Car Competition

31. Applied Academics
Model UN

32. Collaborative Academics
Shared Problem Solving

33. Shared Academics
Creating Connections

34. So, what’s ahead?

35. So,
what
connections
are yet
to be
made?

37. What do you want CLC to be?

38. Physical Fitness

39. Empathy
through
Experience

40. Pathways to Professionalism

41. Problem Based Learning

42. Engineering
Humor
And, by proxy,
Pride

43. Cultivating a
culture of
curiosity

45. Impacting beyond the classroom

46. Affecting the
future

47. Transforming
trials into
Celebrations

48. Transforming trials into Celebrations

49. Opportunities for Tenderness

50. Learning from Graduates

51. 3-D Arts
Bringing the
Surreal to Life

52. Connecting Skills With Selves

53. Connecting
Earth to Mouth
by Connecting
Body with
Farming

54. A place of joy cultivates
a sense of place

55. This pic just makes me happy

56. A Place of Performance

57. Learning disguised as play

58. A place of collaboration

59. A place of Friendship

60. Multilayered,
Hands-On
Lessons

61. Building blocks of . . .

62. A place of Choices

63. A place of variation

64. A place of fierceness

65. A place of
Creating

66. A place of
Togetherness

67. A place of
Imagination

68. A place of
Love

69. CLC Loves Our Grandparents

70. CLC Loves Our Grandparents

71. CLC Loves Our Grandparents

72. CLC Loves Our Grandparents

73. CLC Loves Our Grandparents

74. CLC Loves Our Grandparents

75. CLC Loves Our Grandparents