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Education Summit Brings Community Together

By Kayla Sheldon, Community Writer
October 1, 2014 at 09:38am. Views: 46

On Friday evening, Sept. 19, Arroyo Valley High School hosted an Education Summit. The goal of the event was to invite current and future students and their parents to the school to engage and connect with them. Parents, guardians, and community members came together to speak about the plan to ensure that all students are fully prepared for what their future holds by the time they graduate. The event was held in the school’s cafeteria. All attendees were served with dinner and dessert. After everyone finished their dinners, Principal Gordon Amerson took the podium that showed their Mission Statement: “The mission of Arroyo Valley is to provide each student with a safe, secure, challenging, and nurturing learning environment, an educational setting rich in the arts that empowers each student to become a responsible, productive citizen with the necessary knowledge to find success in a highly competitive, technological, and multicultural society.” “It’s very, very important that we capture your voices, we capture the thoughts, we capture the aspirations, hopes, and dreams of not only our students but also our community, our parents, and staff,” Principal Amerson mentioned right before everyone started the “Community Engagement Activity”. Every teacher that attended had to check out an iPod at the front of the cafeteria. Students were encouraged to use them to answer various questions that would give the administration feedback to use to plan their academic strategies for future school years. The purpose of this activity was to implement current technology, for everyone to engage in the questions, and to get feedback from the students so that they have a voice and say in how things go. Principal Amerson said, “They will provide powerful feedback that we can use to raise the level of achievement and engagement of our entire community on the West Side of San Bernardino.”

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