What I notice about most high school systems
is that students operate on a basis
of knowing there's a sense of privacy
with every piece of work they submit.
And the only feedback you'll ever receive
is a grade point average.
And it manifests sort of this
click it, submit it and forget it mentality.
At the Grand Rapids Public Museum High School,
every block of learning ended with a symposium,
a presentation, an opportunity to share our projects
with our family members, our peers,
the community.
This has directly reflected in how
I have gone about my work as a professional.
I believe my high school experience
fostered a quite confident lifelong learner.
It's motivated me to continue to learn,
to continue to seek mastery
on things that I'm interested in,
to continue to ask curious questions,
pose points of interest for yourself,
write things down.
It's, I believe, fostered a sense of curiosity in myself
that I feel like I can have carried
throughout college and now into early adulthood
as I seek career opportunities
and ways to learn and develop
from an education capacity,
but also in a professional capacity.