Expect to Win.. Bridging the Millennial Gap By Engaging and Empowering Challenging Students, Parents, and Staff.
Format
Individual Presentation
First Presenter's Institution
Delta Innovative School
Second Presenter's Institution
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Third Presenter's Institution
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Fourth Presenter's Institution
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Fifth Presenter's Institution
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Location
Session 9 Breakouts
Strand #1
Head: Academic Achievement & Leadership
Strand #2
Head: Academic Achievement & Leadership
Relevance
While this presentation relates to several standards, it most closely relates to the Academic Achievement and Leadership. The focus is on implementing change by bridging the gap within students, staff, and parents.
Brief Program Description
Education generations are constantly changing and each generation creates its own challenges. Schools have to adjust and create strategies to meet the generational challenges for students, staff, and parents.
Summary
Right now, significant changes are happening in K-12 classrooms, with students, staff, and in homes as the older generation is gradually giving way to the new normal. The consequences of these transitions explain much of what is going on in K-12 education today why so many are labeled at risk. Students who are considered at risk have unique challenges that require unique solutions. In this session, we will discuss strategies that effectively motivate them and help them learn to think critically and empower them to achieve academically while creating an environment for their success. We will also present how the Delta Innovative School created an non-traditional way to create a positive, safe, alternative academic environment where students can earn their high school diploma in a blended, non traditional setting while focusing on providing our students the support they need to maximize instructional time and ensure student success.
Evidence
Millennials overtake baby boomers as America largest generation(2020) Retrieved on August 26, 2020 from https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/28/millennials-overtake-baby-boomers-as-americas-largest-generation/ft_20-04-27_generationsize_1/
Learning Objectives
Attendees will learn strategies and ideas to help them meet the needs of the new millennial’s while creating a positive environment for students, staff, and parents.
Biographical Sketch
Lamar Thomas, Principal of the Delta Innovative School located in Brooks County, Georgia. Delta Innovative School specializes in offering a non-traditional educational setting for students who have a need for a different setting, individualized instruction, and/or advanced educational opportunities. Lamar's vision is to have the school grow into an opportunity of molding and developing the students it serves, not only in the classroom, but in the community as well. Delta Innovative School has maintained a 70% or higher graduation rate for the last three years. It has also won Spotlight School of the Year in 2018-2019.
Keyword Descriptors
Gap, Challenging, Empower, Students, Staff, Parents
Presentation Year
2021
Start Date
3-10-2021 11:25 AM
End Date
3-10-2021 12:25 PM
Recommended Citation
Thomas, Lamar, "Expect to Win.. Bridging the Millennial Gap By Engaging and Empowering Challenging Students, Parents, and Staff." (2021). National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference. 59.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar_savannah/2021/2021/59
Expect to Win.. Bridging the Millennial Gap By Engaging and Empowering Challenging Students, Parents, and Staff.
Session 9 Breakouts
Education generations are constantly changing and each generation creates its own challenges. Schools have to adjust and create strategies to meet the generational challenges for students, staff, and parents.
