David Ness, the principal of Lutheran High School, came to talk to our class about the importance of education. With his teaching background and his knowledge of leading a school, he provided information and stories that related to personalized learning. Some major points in his topic included:
He also made the lesson more interactive by having the class answer the following questions below individually. We discussed as a class the answers to help us all better understand the aspects and how these apply to personalized learning. He allowed us to see our strengths and weaknesses in our own personal learning and taught us to find those weakness and work to make them grow to be strengths.
SWOT Analysis of Personal Learning:
Strengths:
Hannah Buchholz, director of admissions and marketing at Lutheran High School came and expanded our knowledge on web design. With her understanding of creating eye catching websites and wavers, she focused our attention on the overall design aspects we need in order to create a highly professional portfolio. With Hannah’s expertise, I have expanded my knowledge of design that will allow me to make my portfolio succeed. Below are some of her key points:
Mr. Rinks, development director at Lutheran High School, targeted God’s plan for each and everyone of us. He shared about his own life and how things went completely different than he had expected, but he stated that with obstacles his faith grew stronger. God’s plan for him has made him the person he is today and he wouldn’t have it any other way. He encouraged us to embrace God’s plan and to not let things take away your happiness. Some of his main points included:
He concluded with an activity that allowed us to plan our own life and required us to pick certain things in this world that would be hard to obtain. Mr. Rinks, encouraged us to try and reach those goals even if they seem impossible, because truly nothing is impossible with God on our side. Through Mr. Rinks words today, I have learned to push and thrive to be what God wants me to be no matter the circumstances because there will always be ultimate greatness in the end.
Steve Budnack, The volunteer chairman of the Parker Task Force gave the class the opportunity to come in and tour the new and approved food bank that was just created. With his background in business and nonprofit organizations, Steve was able to provide us with some key points in how to be successful.
Key points:
Paul Albers, Executive Congregational Services, Rocky Mountain district. He has been in the district for almost 16 years now. Focuses on troubleshooting problem solving and conflict resolution. Works to build and strengthen the community of workers. He focuses on trying to build a sense of community.
Key Points:
Pastor Eckelkamp, the board of directors for the school. Helps people with tough decisions by narrowing down their interests. He devotes the majority of his life to worshiping God.
Samantha Hedberg, Regional Vice President of Primerica Financial services, came to our class to talk about the responsibilities behind money. She has Managed 4 offices in Colorado. And she is on the advisory committee for increasing the number of successful woman in the financial services industry.
Different:
With college coming up soon, Samantha has made us all realize the importance of saving money and how to spend it.Things we love now might not be as available in the future. To be successful we have to be smart with our money and save. This can be done through creating your own business or by investing. Those are the top examples. Samantha made us all realize how soon our lives are going to change and how fast we need to shift our saving habits. With her advice, I have learned the importance of money and the impact it has/ will have on my life.
Mr. Dan Gehrke, Executive Director at Lutheran High School, came into our class and explained his job criteria and how with his job the importance of working as a team to achieve the goals that are placed, is key to success. He also talked to us about the upcoming plans the school has for the next school year.
Robert Schoene: Own and operates two restaurants
- “Are you a guide on the side or a sage on the stage?”
- Teachers try to gain knowledge based off what students are interested in.
- It’s easier for students to connect with information when other students present the information.
- Chose what you are interested in makes research easier; personalize learning.
- Motivation to learn and listen makes the education more personal.
- Talked about his mom and how she learned individually because of how personal her learning in school was.
- “Dive yourself into personalized learning and you will separate yourself.”
He also made the lesson more interactive by having the class answer the following questions below individually. We discussed as a class the answers to help us all better understand the aspects and how these apply to personalized learning. He allowed us to see our strengths and weaknesses in our own personal learning and taught us to find those weakness and work to make them grow to be strengths.
SWOT Analysis of Personal Learning:
Strengths:
- Knowing outside sources and people that I could talk to
- The willingness to learn
- Thinking deeply and outside of the box
- Time management
- Talking to people
- Connecting with other interests
- To make a difference
- Procrastination
- Presenting my research in front of others
- Not being interested
- Interests
- Being able to talk to people
- Thinking deeply
- Thinking outside of the box
- Pushing your limits
- Not allowing obstacles
- Combining our knowledge from all our projects to prepare us for the real world through personalized learning.
Hannah Buchholz, director of admissions and marketing at Lutheran High School came and expanded our knowledge on web design. With her understanding of creating eye catching websites and wavers, she focused our attention on the overall design aspects we need in order to create a highly professional portfolio. With Hannah’s expertise, I have expanded my knowledge of design that will allow me to make my portfolio succeed. Below are some of her key points:
- Need to figure out your own brand to get your message across
- Typeface= Writing fonts
- Sans:
- Not as formal have a more casual feel
- Not as formal have a more casual feel
- Serifs:
- Serifs:
- Printing press
- Are more formal
- Slab Serifs - very loud, easy to read
- used to get point across
- Are more formalWriting style based off tone of what you are working on
- Writing style based off tone of what you are working on
- Alignment: helps set the tone as well. Alignment is justified, it helps shape more of a formal tone, used in business. It’s used in a decorative sense and is meant to catches the reader's eye. The text in alignment is written to seem to be as a part of the picture. When writing, people almost always align their text to the left and ragged right. Ragged alignment is very casual.
- Font pairing
- Bring interest and a great way to be formal but also has a very casual as well
- Gives the writing a pop and unique look
- Look at contrast
- Never pair two serifs and never pair two sans as well. Always pair a serif and a san for the best look
- Google fonts gives great fonts
- Look for a font with different weights
- Always use 16 point font on the web
- Make everything bold
- Colors help with determining tone as well
- Colors help with determining tone as well
- Complementary colors help with sports teams
- Alignment: helps set the tone as well. Alignment is justified, it helps shape more of a formal tone, used in business. It’s used in a decorative sense and is meant to catches the reader's eye. The text in alignment is written to seem to be as a part of the picture. When writing, people almost always align their text to the left and ragged right. Ragged alignment is very casual.
- Complementary colors help with sports teams
- Cool Analogous colors : three colors right next to each other (blues, purples, darker colors or reds, yellows, warmer colors)
- Monochromatic colors: the use of a single color
- Black and white: produces a serious appeal
- Neutral colors: Tans, whites, clay
- Spot color: One hex color very flat
- simulated spot color: Looks more realistic but still flat
- Continuous tone: More gradation, more friendly, more business formal
- Use RGB for the web
- Use RGB for the web
- Pantone and hex color
- Resolution has to be 300 dots per inch or pixels, poor resolution can create a problem with in the look of the project
- Pantone and hex colorIdentity mark: Logo. Two types of identity marks include an actual logo and letter marks. Actual logo only consists of letters and letter marks usually are abbreviations or symbols. Always create your own identity mark, establish right off the bat whether you will use a symbol alone or use it as apart of the brand.
- Imagery:
- Resolution has to be 300 dots per inch or pixels, poor resolution can create a problem with in the look of the project
- In web 72 dot per inch or pixel is required so the loading time of an image or text isn’t slow
- Vectors verse Pixels
- Vectors: Can be as big or little as you want but it will never look pixilated. Logos should always be a vector, and needs to be a PNG A PNG creates transparency by clumping colors together.
- Pixels: boxes of color consisting of 20 pixels of padding on pictures and text
- Hierarchy and Layout;
- Hierarchy; Header one, subhead have at least two categories. Needs to bold to add a professional look and needs to be in 16 point font. Always follow the rules of italics .
- Layout
- Layouts contribute to the feel and the look of the project or site. When using layouts always check spelling, do not use widows or orphans (Single word on a single line by itself), use rivers only for justified text and lastly, ask yourself, “ Would people be able to recognize this?”
- Examples of layouts:
- Copy heavy: very detailed and lengthy
- Mongeon: very structured
- Multi panel: not as organized
- Frame: Has a frame around the font
Mr. Rinks, development director at Lutheran High School, targeted God’s plan for each and everyone of us. He shared about his own life and how things went completely different than he had expected, but he stated that with obstacles his faith grew stronger. God’s plan for him has made him the person he is today and he wouldn’t have it any other way. He encouraged us to embrace God’s plan and to not let things take away your happiness. Some of his main points included:
- Expand your life.
- Jesus is number one!
- Putting Jesus first has controlled my desires
- God will let you be you
- Get in the game and let God help you accomplish those desires and wants, don't be hidden by sin embrace life and be unique
- Excel in everything, be passionate in all things you do
- God gave us only a certain amount of time in this world, and do not waste that time given on things that will not aid in you becoming a better person, embrace God
- The Lord can do more than I can imagine
- Life is risky and you can’t control everything, but if you work hard then things will be good
He concluded with an activity that allowed us to plan our own life and required us to pick certain things in this world that would be hard to obtain. Mr. Rinks, encouraged us to try and reach those goals even if they seem impossible, because truly nothing is impossible with God on our side. Through Mr. Rinks words today, I have learned to push and thrive to be what God wants me to be no matter the circumstances because there will always be ultimate greatness in the end.
Steve Budnack, The volunteer chairman of the Parker Task Force gave the class the opportunity to come in and tour the new and approved food bank that was just created. With his background in business and nonprofit organizations, Steve was able to provide us with some key points in how to be successful.
Key points:
- There is more poverty in our world than we think.
- 10, 000 people were served yesterday.
- The Parker Task Force was first created 29 years ago in a barn.
- Tough love is key in success.
- Cereal is the most popular item at the Foodbank.
- Items have a 6 month shelf life outside their expiration date.
- If needed they pay for a hotel or have the police go and pick up the homeless people and have them bring them to the Task Force.
Paul Albers, Executive Congregational Services, Rocky Mountain district. He has been in the district for almost 16 years now. Focuses on troubleshooting problem solving and conflict resolution. Works to build and strengthen the community of workers. He focuses on trying to build a sense of community.
Key Points:
- 183 Congregations that he is involved with.
- Includes Elementary Schools, and High Schools.
- 35 districts in the Missouri senate in total.
- Focuses on providing a learning environment where students learn about christ at their own pace.
- DCE- youth pastors, do ministry work
- Jesus has a huge part in what we do in our lives. He leads us to succeed.
- It’s about spiritual formation for people within the schools.
- While you grow spiritually your teachers and pastors need to grow with you.
- Serving Christ by serving others.
- “God needs his people in the world.”
- You are not finished being formed after high school.
- Going from a Lutheran school system to a Public system is a culture shock.
- Taught from the Christian perspective not the world’s perspective.
- What is expected at a Lutheran school is apart of the culture.
- It may be more of a sheltered environment but it will benefit you in the long run
- Lutheran schools don’t get their money from taxes
- Prevents us from bringing more than what we are.
- Have a hard time reaching people with illnesses and special needs.
- Can’t always provides what every student needs
- Relies on tuition or special donations
- “No matter what you choose to do, it’s going to change no matter what in your lifetime.”
- Foundation of is
- Character
- willingness to learn
- Foundation with Christ
- How you serve through your faith in Christ
- Foundation of is
- Was a teacher, youth minister, camp manager, principle- life changes and so does your job
- When we solve problems our emotions get involved.
- Categorize thoughts before proceeding
Pastor Eckelkamp, the board of directors for the school. Helps people with tough decisions by narrowing down their interests. He devotes the majority of his life to worshiping God.
- Mind map
- Helps with figuring out college
- used when facing a major decision
- Create a diagram the shows all your interests and build off those thoughts and state the positive and negatives for each interest.
- Give the results to another person to see what they see to get another perspective
- What does God want for my life?
- What is God’s will?
- We receive his love his word and his forgiveness, and it is his will to love and share his forgiveness.
- What is God’s will?
- “God gave us 10 thou shall nots, and 100 billion go and do/try.”
- SHAPE:
- S: Spiritual gifts
- H: Heart
- A: Aptitude
- P: Personality
- E: Experiences
- Poem: Engages who we are and everything we are.
- Voc(al)tion: Your calling
- A Calling is more than a job it’s putting your shape into action
- Live out who God has made us to be to share his holiness
- “The best way to love your neighbor is to do your best work.”
- First command God made:
- “Care for the creatures and the land of the earth.”
- in God's glory
- the joy in our calling
- to the best of our abilities
- “Care for the creatures and the land of the earth.”
- Just because it’s hard, doesn’t mean it’s not what you are designed to do.
- Mission statement:
- Connect: How are you connecting to God.
- Neighbor: How are you stepping into the life of your neighbor.
- Serve: How are you serving other.
- Love learn to love yourself by loving your neighbor.
- Genesis 2:15
- Pre fall
- Get your hands in the soil
- Humility: means to get into the soil.
- Everything comes from the earth.
- God’s work
- We are made in God’s image
- This is how we are made and this is from what we are made.
- Send thank you notes to those who have impacted your life.
- Worry is just a pray to the wrong God
- When we let shame and fear manipulate your decisions, you will not succeed.
- The 5 whys
Samantha Hedberg, Regional Vice President of Primerica Financial services, came to our class to talk about the responsibilities behind money. She has Managed 4 offices in Colorado. And she is on the advisory committee for increasing the number of successful woman in the financial services industry.
- Things we know about money:
- It should be saved
- Budgeting
- Government takes our money
- It’s green
- Might have to work for that money
- Give 10% of earns to the church
- Asked us if we would rather have a penny for a day for 30 days doubled or 30,000 dollars for 30 days. .
- Best choice to pick is penny for a day doubled for 30 days, because by the end of the 30 days you will have 5,368,709.12 dollars total.
- money builds and grows
- don’t be greedy
- Best choice to pick is penny for a day doubled for 30 days, because by the end of the 30 days you will have 5,368,709.12 dollars total.
- Money does not grow linear it grows compounded
- It either works for you or against you
- “What do you want with your life?”
- To be successful
- Start my own business
- Go to college for dentistry
- Start a family
- How do I become successful here in America?
- Get a job, that has growth potential
- Spend less than you take in
- Save for unexpected moments
- Be creative and work hard
- Invest some of your money
- Public Speaking 101: What people will ask you.
- Who are you?
- Why should I listen to you?
- 100 People after working from age 25 to age 65:
- 54% dependent
- 95% of the population is either dead or dead broke by the age of 65
- Why do 95% fail when it comes to their finances?
- 1. No financial education
- 2. No financial game plan
- 3. no financial coach
- Why do 95% fail when it comes to their finances?
- There needs to be a balanced
- Money and poverty don’t buy happiness
- The wealthy 1%
- Lottery / Inheritance
- 5%- Salesperson
- 10%- CEO /President
- 10% Doctor / Attorney
- 74% Entrepreneur
- Need to ask questions regarding what the career path will look like and determine whether it’s what you want if if it will be worth it.
- Need to consider the future.
- 4 ways to make money:
- Employee:
- Has a job
- Income based on position, not the person
- Self Employed:
- Owns a job
- Dentist, Doctors, Lawyers, etc.
- Owns a job
- Business:
- Owns a system
- Has others working for them.
- Unlimited income potential
- Investor:
- Has money working for them
- Employee:
- Traditional
- Study hard, Go to school, get a job
- Most people have a job, usually only one
- One source of income
- Employee Mentality: Someone must create work for me.
- No backup plan- if they get laid off, they are back to square one
- The wealthy 1%
- Money and poverty don’t buy happiness
Different:
- What I do?
- Help people fix money problems
- Spending all the money they make
- Spending more money than they make
- No spending plan
- Merging finances upon marriage
- splitting finances upon divorce
- How to start investing
- How to pick the right investment
- How taxes work
- How to get out of debt
- The difference between the right and the wrong type of insurance
- Insurance people don't need
- Not having a will / living will / POA
- Teach/ Coach
- Rule 72:
- Dividing 72 by the interest rate equals the number of years it takes your money to double.
- It’s not about how much you make it's about how you are smart with your money
- Help people fix money problems
With college coming up soon, Samantha has made us all realize the importance of saving money and how to spend it.Things we love now might not be as available in the future. To be successful we have to be smart with our money and save. This can be done through creating your own business or by investing. Those are the top examples. Samantha made us all realize how soon our lives are going to change and how fast we need to shift our saving habits. With her advice, I have learned the importance of money and the impact it has/ will have on my life.
Mr. Dan Gehrke, Executive Director at Lutheran High School, came into our class and explained his job criteria and how with his job the importance of working as a team to achieve the goals that are placed, is key to success. He also talked to us about the upcoming plans the school has for the next school year.
- “Raise the people raise the funds.”
- Has the most authority, but govern by the policy.
- First put the division in place, then put the people in the right place and things will then run well.
- Lutheran is a 4 million dollar company with 38 employees.
- Culture is huge for success!
- Why does Apple exist?:
- Apple’s vision statement:
- “We believe that we are on the face of the earth to make great products and that’s not changing. We are constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in the simple not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. We believe in saying no to thousands of projects, so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us. We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot. And frankly, we don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self- honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change. And I think regardless of who is in what job those values are so embedded in this company that Apple will do extremely well.”
- Apple’s vision statement:
- Lutherans vision statement:
- We want to serve this community so God can do his thing!!
- Service people and God will step in and serve people through his ministry.
- Core Values:
- Highly related culture
- To be successful students need to have relationships with teachers and coaches. That is Lutheran High.
- Rooted in Scripture- Boldly proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
- Leaders in Christian secondary education practices.
- Strive to hire very talented people ones who can lead
- Highly related culture
- Aspirational Values:
- Focused on community service and outreach.
- High level of instructional talent.
- Dominant athletic programs.
- Partnering with our ministries.
- Successful development on fundraising practices.
- Efforts of the school:
- Growing the school.
- Maximizing giving.
- Recruiting and developing talented workers.
Robert Schoene: Own and operates two restaurants
- Purchased Great Beginnings 8 years ago.
- Needed to bring son to New York so his son could hug his Uncle.
- Living in california
- Living in the Corporate world
- Interested in purchasing Great Beginnings-2007
- Needed 40,000 dollars from family to make the deposit
- Cousin gave him the money because he brought his son to see his uncle in New York
- It was God’s plan for him
- “If I can not help family, who can I help?”
- Purchased restaurant in 2008.
- 2008 Great Beginnings only made an income of 4,292.27 dollars that year.
- How do you put a price on a business?
- How much you pay for it sets up your finances for that business.
- Bought Great Beginnings for 250,000
- Was turned down to buy the B and B cafe.
- Lord wanted him to be in the restaurant business
- John 4:24
- “ God is a spirit,and those who worship him must worship him in battle and truth.”
- Luke 19
- John 4:24
- The Lord gave him the money through other people to help him buy the restaurants.
- Runs the restaurants until the Lord tell him to other things
- Running a restaurant:
- Needs to match the guests expectations as well as making a profit
- Running a successful restaurant through other people
- Managing other people to get the job done
- As the boss you have to pay for everything
- What happens when you are under staffed?
- Be honest with the guest and empathize
- Take ownership- tell them it is not there fault
- Learning to be honest and upfront will help you anywhere you go
- If a guest is cursing at you
- Get the boss, tap out, you are not getting payed enough for that.
- Remove the guest so it’s not contagious
- Ask yourself: “What would you expect if you were that guest?”
- If a guest is cursing at you
- What do you look for for hiring?
- Do research and figure out the atmosphere of the business.
- Looking at attitude
- Everything else is teachable
- You need confidence!!!!! -- Comes with experience
- Interviewing:
- Tell me about yourself
- Do you know anything about what we do?
- Have you done your homework?
- They test you in a way.
- Role play
- Interviewing:
- What happens when you are under staffed?
- Self Ownership:
- Make mistakes off someone else's dollar
- Get some experience for other business in the work field
- Get involved with people that know what they are doing and learn from them.
- Surround yourself with people that know how to do things better than you will.
- Make mistakes off someone else's dollar