Sunday, May 02, 2021
Indiana College Core (formerly the Statewide Testing General Education Core) ensures students the ability to earn college credits while still in high school.
Through Ivy Tech, Sullivan has 52 students that will be receiving certificates this year.
This includes the trades machine, welding and automotive and technical certificates involving more typical academic disciplines.
“Forty-seven students have committed to walk through graduation ceremonies,” said Southwest School Corp. superintendent Chris Stitzle. “That is very impressive.”
Sullivan High School counselor Katie Couch said that 30 hours of general education credit transfers between public colleges and universities.
“It is a great thing for the kids to get college credit while still in high school, “ she said. “Whether they want to go to college or just graduate and get a job, they still get a chance to learn skills that can help them once they graduate from high school.”
I became a fan of Admiral William H. McRaven in 2014 when in a commencement address at the University of Texas, he said, âIf you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.â
That full video, and other shorter clips, have been viewed more than 60 million times on YouTube, and catapulted the sale of McRavenâs book âMake Your Bedâ to over 1 million copies. Here is the link to that speech:Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z72JGKnDRHc
Oddly, it was his book, and not the fact that he commanded the Osama bin Laden raid back in 2011, that thrust McRaven into the national spotlight.
The new Liza Jackson Preparatory School will continue to provide instruction for students from kindergarten through eighth grade. But those students, who will arrive in August, will have 16,000 additional square feet in which to move around.
Roberts said plans call for adding another grade level class for each elementary grade, a move that will raise the student population to close to 1,000.
It is somewhat ironic that the dream of building a new Liza Jackson Preparatory School was made possible to some degree by the demise of the YMCA of Florida s Emerald Coast.
At the time the local YMCA declared bankruptcy in 2014, its Fort Walton Beach campus occupied about 20 acres that had been deeded to the city by the Air Force. But the Air Force benevolence hinged on the provision that the land be used for recreational and/or educational purposes.