When Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 first considered using the Quantum Learning professional development system for teachers years ago, Laura Hurla asked the school board to think back to their years as students and remember who their favorite teachers were.
Hurla, now an instructional coach at Berryton Elementary, asked the board to go a little further than just those teachers names and to think about what it was that made those teachers their favorite. Most likely, those teachers were doing these strategies that we re including in Quantum Learning, Hurla said.
Now, after a year of shifting learning strategies to accommodate COVID-19 while following the concepts set out in the teacher training program, Berryton is the first school in the U.S. to achieve the program s Quantum Learning School designation.
Some won t wander too far off, attending and making names for themselves at Kansas excellent state colleges and universities.
Others will move thousands of miles away to introduce others across the nation to the hard-working character and authentic essence of what it means to be a Kansan.
Each of these high school seniors will carry themselves well, though, and they start these next phases in their lives knowing they have the support of proud schools and communities that raised them.
The following students are members of The Topeka Capital-Journal s All-City Academic Team. Denotes student was also selected to the Gannett Kansas 2021 All-State Academic Team.