TRANSFERABLE SKILLS
Creative Thinking and Problem Solving
Effective and Expressive Communication
Engaged Citizenship
Working Independently and Collaboratively
Informed, Integrated, and Critical Thinking
Self Awareness and Self Direction
INDEPENDENT LEARNING SKILLS
Inquiry
I have pursued queer history and culture though many lenses and mediums - film, sound, old writing, new writing, conversation, etc. As well as asked questions of the world around me: Why does this tea taste more gingery than usual?
I ask so many questions. I ask them to Amy, I ask them to Chris. Recently, I’ve gotten in the habit of asking them to Siri using the voice command. When I am working with old skills, like photoshop, I constantly have questions, and I turn to the internet or whoever is nearby and knows the answer.
Time Management
I have met all deadlines where I was accountable to an outside party. Deadlines that I set for myself I often pushed back. I have let myself work very relaxed, which makes me feel good and not stressed most of the time, but left some moments very full of things that I needed to do, which was stressful. I could have been better at time management and gotten more work done, but I would have maybe been unhappier with the work that I made.
I’m usually pretty good at this. Although this final quarter I have let the ball slip a bit - there is work that I will be finishing up after I do my exhibition (conveniently I have one final week of school left) like printing, binding and assembling all the LIFE AS PERFORMANCE books other than the singular finished one I have.
Accountability
Medium. I should have been more proactive about meeting with subject area advisors. I did the work that I said I was going to do. No one complained about me failing them. I wish I had been better, but I wasn’t.
The same is true for this final quarter. I did not meet with advisors as much as I would have liked. Although this was mostly because I felt very good with where I was at on my projects. It would have been helpful for my advisors though.
This narrative took much longer to write than I would have liked, but it is here nevertheless. I pull through, even if it is tight.
Self Advocacy
I have really struggled this quarter with myself, and I have asked for support from people around me. And because of asking I got some support, which helped.
I ask for help. I ask for help using photoshop, I ask for help organising DEEP AEROBICS, I ask for help with my health. This year I have gotten much better at asking for specific help. When I am struggling I asses the situation: Is it important and necessary? Is it feeding my soul/life? And identify exactly what I need, then figure out who can help me with that need.
Demonstration
I made a play. I made a book. My final products speak for themselves. The things that aren’t finished are harder. It would be nice is I had taken more pictures, taken more notes, written more blog posts.
This is where I excel, I made so much work, and have the ability to talk about it all in such depth. The fact that I sit writing this narrative for hours is demonstrating this. The fact that at lunch today, while I was taking a break from writing, I was talking about science with some of the other herb school students is demonstrating my learning. These demonstrations are not everything though, I carry my learning with me everywhere, in the way I talk, and the things I talk about, and in the way that I try to present myself as n=visually queer in my clothing. It is all demonstration.
Perseverance
I’m here. I made it through the quarter without really falling apart. I did what I needed to do. If things weren't working I either fixed them or dropped them. I stuck by a group of non dancers learning my dances.
I’m here. I made it. It’s the end of my high school career. I dealt with the issues that have arisen, and solved the problems.
Creative Thinking and Problem Solving
- LEAR: TECH
- LEAR: BLOCKING
- LIFE AS PERFORMANCE: BINDING
- Boundless Manifesto as College Essay
- DEEP AEROBICS
- BOUNDLESS
Effective and Expressive Communication
- LEAR
- BOUNDLESS discussions
- LIFE AS PERFORMANCE introduction
- LIFE AS PERFORMANCE retrospective
- Pilot Seminar - How to do an Exhibition
- Boundless Manifesto
- LEAR Script
- Stonewall Sticky Notes
Engaged Citizenship
- Enough Walkout Organisation
- VYDC rep at St. Johnsbury
- You Got This Callback Group
- Pilot Seminar - How to do an Exhibition
- Seeking Social Justice
- Studying Queer History
- DEEP AEROBICS
Working Independently and Collaboratively
- LEAR
- LIFE AS PERFORMANCE
- BOUNDLESS
- Herb School
- A Body, A Body
- Being in the Pilot
Informed, Integrated, and Critical Thinking
- LEAR
- BOUNDLESS
- LIFE AS PERFORMANCE
- Boundless Manifesto
- DEEP AEROBICS outline
- Stonewall Sticky Notes
Self Awareness and Self Direction
- LEAR
- LIFE AS PERFORMANCE
- Queer History/Culture
- Being in the Pilot
INDEPENDENT LEARNING SKILLS
Inquiry
I have pursued queer history and culture though many lenses and mediums - film, sound, old writing, new writing, conversation, etc. As well as asked questions of the world around me: Why does this tea taste more gingery than usual?
I ask so many questions. I ask them to Amy, I ask them to Chris. Recently, I’ve gotten in the habit of asking them to Siri using the voice command. When I am working with old skills, like photoshop, I constantly have questions, and I turn to the internet or whoever is nearby and knows the answer.
Time Management
I have met all deadlines where I was accountable to an outside party. Deadlines that I set for myself I often pushed back. I have let myself work very relaxed, which makes me feel good and not stressed most of the time, but left some moments very full of things that I needed to do, which was stressful. I could have been better at time management and gotten more work done, but I would have maybe been unhappier with the work that I made.
I’m usually pretty good at this. Although this final quarter I have let the ball slip a bit - there is work that I will be finishing up after I do my exhibition (conveniently I have one final week of school left) like printing, binding and assembling all the LIFE AS PERFORMANCE books other than the singular finished one I have.
Accountability
Medium. I should have been more proactive about meeting with subject area advisors. I did the work that I said I was going to do. No one complained about me failing them. I wish I had been better, but I wasn’t.
The same is true for this final quarter. I did not meet with advisors as much as I would have liked. Although this was mostly because I felt very good with where I was at on my projects. It would have been helpful for my advisors though.
This narrative took much longer to write than I would have liked, but it is here nevertheless. I pull through, even if it is tight.
Self Advocacy
I have really struggled this quarter with myself, and I have asked for support from people around me. And because of asking I got some support, which helped.
I ask for help. I ask for help using photoshop, I ask for help organising DEEP AEROBICS, I ask for help with my health. This year I have gotten much better at asking for specific help. When I am struggling I asses the situation: Is it important and necessary? Is it feeding my soul/life? And identify exactly what I need, then figure out who can help me with that need.
Demonstration
I made a play. I made a book. My final products speak for themselves. The things that aren’t finished are harder. It would be nice is I had taken more pictures, taken more notes, written more blog posts.
This is where I excel, I made so much work, and have the ability to talk about it all in such depth. The fact that I sit writing this narrative for hours is demonstrating this. The fact that at lunch today, while I was taking a break from writing, I was talking about science with some of the other herb school students is demonstrating my learning. These demonstrations are not everything though, I carry my learning with me everywhere, in the way I talk, and the things I talk about, and in the way that I try to present myself as n=visually queer in my clothing. It is all demonstration.
Perseverance
I’m here. I made it through the quarter without really falling apart. I did what I needed to do. If things weren't working I either fixed them or dropped them. I stuck by a group of non dancers learning my dances.
I’m here. I made it. It’s the end of my high school career. I dealt with the issues that have arisen, and solved the problems.