Come watch and support high schoolers show off their design thinking work, many of whom are also working in Pactful and the JICC, on Friday, May 1st, from 4–6 PM PT. We have been grateful for the ongoing collaboration with e3 Civic High since we launched Pactful and are thrilled to join in their showcase event this Friday and hope you will too.
Schedule and sign up at https://exhibition.e3civichigh.com.
From Steven Cerruti:
On Friday, March 13th of this year, under guidance from Governor Newsome, school districts throughout California closed their doors to in person learning. This closure would later be extended through the remaining school year. However, e3 Civic High is a different type of school and because of the schools’ technology forward approach, that puts a MacBook in the hands of each scholar, and it’s focus on equity, that ensured that each scholar could access the internet from wherever they call home during this crisis, e3 Civic High was able to continue it’s instruction offering full class schedules online the following Monday morning.
Founded in 2013 to serve high school students in San Diego, e3 Civic High is a public charter open to all. The school has 400 scholars in grades 9 through 12. Over three quarters of the students are considered first generation college bound and over one quarter are English learners.
Sadly, even with the supports in place to move instruction online, scholar work was not uninterrupted. Our scholars were in the final stages of preparing their design thinking prototypes for our Annual Exhibition of Learning. Exhibition is our biggest event of the year and provides our scholars a chance to demonstrate their achievements and receive valuable feedback from professionals in the community, a key element of the design thinking process. Our scholars had to transition from in person collaboration creating physical representations of solutions to online collaboration preparing presentations that could be delivered remotely. In our opinion they have done a wonderful job of reacting to a bad situation with grit and determination and producing some amazing results.
To support the goals of our Exhibition of Learning and to provide our scholars the best possible experience we have moved our Exhibition online for the 2020 school year. I am asking you to dedicate a couple of hours on Friday, May 1st at 4:00 PM to join us for presentations from our scholars on solutions they have created for a variety of problems they see in their world today. We hope that you will come away impressed by the creativity and effort demonstrated by our teams and we only ask you to come prepared to engage with our scholars to provide the valuable feedback they need to fully understand the design process. Won’t you please join us for the evening?
You can find information about the projects being presented at our Exhibition Website, https://exhibition.e3civichigh.com. Later this week information will be available on how to join our presentation sessions via Zoom. Thank you.