What's on FIRE?

What's on FIRE? What’s Next? Where are these ideas coming from? In 2030, what will life look like?  It is crazy to think about as technology and life has evolved at an exponential rate of change.  Why 2030? No reason other than it is my reference point from the time I graduated high school to now and I often ponder changes what life will look for our students currently graduating.  What are we doing to better prepare them?  I have come to realize that there are those who believe status quo is acceptable and those who in their lives realized that status quo is not good enough for lifetime learners.  I am in the latter and am committed to keeping up with the rapid changes taking place in the competitive educational realm to provide the students entrusted to Eminence Middle/High School with a first-class level of education.  The vision of Eminence encompasses this and will be shared and explained in the upcoming posts.   

To the question in this Blog Post: Who is on F.I.R.E? That would be Eminence Independent Schools and we are in fact on F.I.R.E.  What does it really mean to be on F.I.R.E?  Many have asked questions lately about our school and the work we are doing,  then it hit me...I realized that blogging may be a great way to communicate our work to those interested in following our story.  Stay tuned to hear from students, teachers, and other stakeholders as we tell our story.  

I will spend some time giving some background on various initiatives and hopefully bring you along on that journey and help provide a solid foundation that will reveal the importance of our work today.  Ultimately, we want you to be a part of the journey and see why Eminence is a special place.  

The term F.I.R.E evolved as a result of defining the work to be done at Eminence.  It stands for the Framework of Innovation to Reinvent Education and we are proud as we move forward in designing a framework for the children entrusted to our schools as we prepare them for the Next Generation of Learning that is necessary to produce students prepared for the world that will greet them upon the graduation from high school.  It is a task that requires to be innovative and think differently about education in moving forward.

As an E-Magineer at the school on F.I.R.E, I too have had to learn and have to push my own personally created limits.  The students here in the building inspire me and have made me realize I had gotten complacent in my own love for education. The technology required to keep up with the students entrusted to our care has required me to set aside my anxieties, jump in and be unafraid to ask for help.  Blogging...who knew in 1996 when I graduated high school that I would be blogging?  Not even sure the term blogging even existed, but the expectation for continued learning certainly was and is still relevant and that is what I hope to uphold in my continued work as an educator.  It is a privilege to serve here in #eminence at the #schoolonfire and I hope this glimpse into our work will inspire you as well!