So creative are the educators at Enfield High School!!! Physics lessons take flight in Stephen Smith’s class, where students build their own hot air balloons and fly them high above campus to test their calculations. HOW COOL is that?!!
Helping Orphan’sin Ukraine and Burma understand someone cares… Advanced art students at EHS get photographs from orphanages and create portraits of the kids. It gives them one of the first visual accounts of their childhood. Because they have no parents, there are very few things to document their lives. The portrait is also sent back with a letter. EHS students are trying to make a personal connection to make a difference.
U.S. History teacher Frank Taylorhas been to more than 70 country’s. He documents his trips with photographs, which line the hallways of Enfield High. He pays for all of the prints himself. Taylor says the more you learn the more you can teach. He’s been imparting his knowledge for more than 50 years in the classroom. Taylor will be 75 this year, and has no plans of retiring. I feel richer for the time I spent with him and I think his students do as well.
Generations collide in Michael Webb’s reading class. His Sophomores are reading “The Ditchdiggers Daughters”and sharing their take on the book with Senior citizens in a book club. The story revolves around an African American father who tells his daughters from a very young age they will grow up to be doctors. The true story is set in the Racially Segregated 1950’s . The senior citizens in the book club lived through the decades, the high school sophomores only read about it. The discussion between the two groups was riveting. Race, respecting your elders and how the two groups in the clubs see each from their own perspective. The session we observed was a real eye opener for everyone their that day. Very COOL!
Hope you enjoy some WEB EXTRAS. (Portions of our live video that didn’t make it on the air this morning. Click below to see them.
Highlights: Enfield Cool School Rally
Thank you for a great time ENFIELD High School.
Have a great weekend.
Mike.
