Recent RIHS PACERS Events April 2014 – May 2014
05-31-14: Graduation! Congratulations!
05-22-14:
R.I. High School Graduation Outing to Modern Woodman Park
04-29-14 Meeting: We welcomed a Slam Poetry Performance today by a duo from St. Louis.
Jay Luuve & Poetic Slang helped us to celebrate National Poetry Month with their dynamic
performances, insights to poetic verse, and metaphors to issues we face daily. Our students
were impressed by their stage presence and artistic vision!
04-22-14 Meeting: As our senior PACERS prepare themselves for life after Rocky, we applied
our Thinking Accurately principle to the real world and discussed part one of a 2-part budget
activity. Given a set of circumstances, our students prepared their budgets based on an
income, fixed expenses and variable expenses. We discussed that some of the choices we
make in our spending will inevitably affect our style of living, and the compromises and
sacrifices we make day-to-day. Stay tuned for part 2 on 05/06...
04-15-14 Meeting: Continuing our work with Thinking Accurately, we applied this Principle to
our communication and included our discussions on perception from last week. Certain words
and pictures trigger our experiences and feelings associated with those words and images.
These initial thoughts for us will generally not be the same for others around us. We learned
that communicating accurately means thinking accurately about the messages which we are
trying to send.
04-08-14: Meeting - We continued work with our new Principle - Thinking Accurately. Today
our discussion focused around the idea of perception; we looked at different pictures and
drawings that could have multiple interpretations. In doing so, we realized that once our minds
are convinced of a certain idea or way of thinking, it is very hard to shift our perspective to
that of a different one.
04-01-14: Meeting - This week we welcomed back our PACERS Seniors for their final quarter
of high school! As we all transition to life after Rocky, our new Principle, Thinking Accurately,
seems especially appropriate. Our activity focused on thinking about our own thinking. We
completed a word association exercise, and realized that even though we may connect an idea
to a certain word, another person might connect that idea to a different concept. Everyone
has different ways of thinking accurately! We will work this quarter to understand all of the
different elements it takes to think accurately about different situations.